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Thinking of buying N8 smartphones, think twice?
By siliconindia
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Friday, 19 November 2010, 22:01 IST
Banaglore:Thinking of buying N8 smartphones, think twice as the some of N8 smartphones were sold with a power fault that meant they switched themselves off.
Nokia sales chief Niklas Savander said,"a limited number of N8 users" were facing the problem of their phones switching off, and they are not able to turn them on again.
The fault in the power management stems from the way in which the engine component which includes most of the technology in the phone, excluding covers and batteries in the Nokia N8 was being installed.A spokesman said the fault was due to a problem in production, which has since been fixed.
The N8, first to use Nokia's new Symbian software, was originally scheduled to reach consumers in June. In April, Nokia warned the software renewal would take longer than expected due to quality problems, and said that the model would reach consumers by the end of September.
The model was finally in the shops last month. A weak offering of smartphones and problems with software were seen as the main reasons for Nokia replacing Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Stephen Elop from Microsoft.
The Nokia will face stiff competiton and power fault wil add on to the worries of people who are at the helm of affiars.However,Savander said,"If you look at the total number it is a small number,"