Nokia has released a major camera update for the Nokia N8. The update will tweak the camera to make it possibly the best camera phone out there! You’ll need to first update to Symbian Anna before applying this camera update. Nokia has decided to deliver the update via Nokia Beta labs to get it to end-users as soon as possible. Otherwise they’d need to wait for the release of Symbian Belle to deliver this.

Here is the description of the update.

Camera update for Nokia N8
This application is an upgrade to the built-in camera application, for your Nokia N8.  It will look familiar to you, no doubt. It’s still the great N8 camera, providing superb results. We’ve just made it a little better by making some of the improvements we didn’t manage to squeeze into the Symbian Anna release.

• We tweaked the UI, to provide camera aficionados faster access to essential camera controls
• We improved the quality of recorded videos, by cranking up the video recording speed to 30 FPS and adding the heavily requested continuous auto-focus.

Read all the nitty-gritty details of the improvements in this post by Damian Dinning at Nokia Conversations.

Compatibility
This camera update is for the Nokia N8 with Symbian Anna. If you do not yet have Symbian Anna, you can check for it athttp://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate or from your device Tools -> SW update.
We will not be releasing similar beta for other products due to the differences in camera hardware.