Nokia N8 to hit it off in Spain and UK too, a white Galaxy S as well
Price is between 499 to 505 Euro.
About RM2,062 to RM,2087.

That's... actually pretty good advertisement.

Leo the Lion has actually made many good points against Android. Let me share a few of my own.

Firstly, I own an Android phone - HTC Hero. I've also had the pleasure to play with the Desire. I've written a few Android applications on my own. Here's what I feel are Android's disadvantages in the market today.

1) Android has a lot of connectivity issues, especially with WiFi. Just search for "Android WiFi Problem" or "Android Mobile Network problem" on Google. My own personal experience hasn't been great. My Hero does not work properly with my WAG54G2 router, although all my other phones do.

2) Android phones today suck at multimedia hardware, especially cameras. Flame Apple all you want, but an iPhone 3GS with 3.2MP takes better shots than my Hero with 5MP. Based on the picture samples I've seen from the new iPhone 4, it's 5MP camera takes way better shots than the 8MP Android phones. Finally, my 5MP Nokia N82 takes better shots than probably all the Android sets that exist today.

3) Lack of free navigation software. One of the nicest things about Nokia is that their Ovi Maps is really good, about 80% on the level of Garmin and Papago. Google Maps is not bad, but you often need to download map images on the fly because not everything comes pre-installed.

All these reasons is why I still keep and use my Nokia N86, even though it has a lousy ugly GUI compared to Hero. It's not pretty but 99% of what I need is there.

The best thing I like about Android/Hero is the browser. Seriously no Nokia phone today lets me surf as happily as my Hero. Which is why I'm looking forward eagerly to the N8, because the big multitouch capacitive screen will finally let me surf happily where older Nokia resistive screens like the one on the N900 don't feel as smooth as my Hero.

You can't compare Maemo to older versions of Android 1.5 because it is very easy to make newer 2.1 applications run on 1.5 devices. 95% of the Android APIs haven't changed and because Android uses Java you don't need a separate recompile for most applications. Even if you want to use 2.1 specific features, you can use Java Reflection to make sure the current device supports it. Also because the APIs are 95% compatible, you can see a lot of unofficial ROMs supported by the community. HTC will not give Hero an official 2.2 update, but there's already a FroydVillain ROM that provides 2.2.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Aug 6 2010, 09:53 PM

I think the N8 design looks pretty nice actually. I like the alumium casing, at least won't be a fingerprint nightmare like the iPhone 3GS glossy plastic or the iPhone 4 glass cover.