to me biggest drawback ... 3 things..  1.Screen resolution....  some time u really frust while surf on the nHD resolution screen ... where top phone like Desire/Galaxy S with much much higher resolution which u can surf with much more pleasure... yet to mention SuperAMOLED  2. CPU speed/RAM..  I doubt N8 able to beat those 1Ghz CPU, with the new Froyo out..  they are even faster  ...  3. OS/Software..  I don't think Symbian able to keep up with Android...  what I see at the moment, the Symbian^3 are only more on cosmetic change from the S60V5.... I doubt it is stable.. typical Nokia...  and most application symbian have are aging...  so yester year....

if N8 can adress the no.1 and 2..  I would say it is in the position to fight with top Android n the I4.....

sadly... even the symbianguru webpage also closing down and the founder jumping ship to Android.....  haiz....

already open source.dun forget N8 support qt platform which mean it able to run Meego aka Maemo5 apps.M5 got tons of apps.S1 oso got tons of apps(but its quite outdated apps)

IMO,

Nokia caters different market. People who live in South Asia, SEA who buys Nokia.

Most of Nokia phones are made to set and leave, without needed for an firmware upgrade. Those white mouse are high end smartphones buyers while in Nokia eyes, the 'smart ones' are the one who buys middle end phones.

Look at 5800XM. I bet the soon to be release C6 will create massive(or a bit less) effect like 5800XM does.

Touchscreen + stable S60v5 (for now), + sufficient set of functions (music player, SMS yada2) + sturdy body + QWERTY.

Even i have a big interest in C6, not N8. Yes, N8 do have some superior functions that even Android do not see its coming.
External HDD > N8 > HDMI > LCD TV/monitors > HD movie playback

Good god. We don't need IPTV/HTPC after this.

A (maybe) good browser in N8 will make HTPC manufacturers gasping for air. 

EDIT: Qt + Maemo5's Mozilla Firefox in N8.
The one who cares about high end smartphones are Europeans and Americans.

Japanese JPhones like Sharp and Sony Ericsson still using Symbian and I bet most of them don't give a shit about iphone and AppStore. Thats why you see Vivaz comes with Symbian. Not Android.

Samsung are brave enough to release Bada. Their own market already sufficient to support Bada.

To make it short, yes, Symbian purpose in South Asia, SEA are becoming more like JPhones. Everyday, everyone phones. To cater highschool wannabees, our mommy and daddy near pension-age, university students whose depend on loans/parents pocketmoney.

Not some people with income RM3.5k above who loves hanging out at Starbucks. That's MeeGo/Android/iphoneOS for you (hopefully).
After all, it's not about N8's technology, it's about what you do with N8. (N8's tagline. )

and please Nokia, equip N8 with Comes With Music edition.

multitouch only use for browser for zooming rite? i for one doesnt need em.

1. Sorry i wasn't intending to offend nor to be offended just stating the facts and i do agree that we are free to suggest any opinions .
   But , some of us sure did saw that Nicholas himself said that he is a Fan of Nokia but his previous statement doesn't look nor seem like one .
   He , as a TS ought to be more post more positively posts then negative ones that would result in newbies even more confused .
  
On a side note , i do not have a friend of a iFan , i've just put it as an example of a fanboy which TS claims he is previously .

2. We all know that n97 was a failure , videos in the net or in reality its the same . Maybe there is a few vids that is smooth probably with a few tweaks here and there. The only smoothness i saw on the n97 was in the Nokia official teaser for itself and yes , no hard feelings kay?

agree...look at Iphone4 price ......pity those broken Apple fans

if u read my post again...i refer to Iphone "4"....now pls tell me is worth to paid nearly 4k for a iphone(some of them selling over 4K)

dude. if u wanna start a flaming war and not post anything relevant to symbian or n8 i suggest go create another thread to satisfy your thoughts.

@BuFung symbian 3 is simplified version for S1.the code is simpler and smoothier.so if S3 with 1ghz...we gonna with crazy for the rocket speed.the FPS even higher than Apple OS and Android OS.

its not all totally what if...they are prototype already showing...

I think 1ghz + 512mb will be more than sufficient for any Symbian devices. Currently using SGS, the OS sucks alot of RAM (always left 50mb below of RAM). And it's starting to lag. Kinda missed symbian (or better to say, Nokia), but downgrading from 4" Super Amoled, is a sacrifice that's hard for me to make

angry birds..one of my fav on ipod..

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Added on August 3, 2010, 6:33 pmguys..dunno if this vid was posted b4. but n8 with mouse? its no more ouch..its a WOW!

if the N8 can play 720p video wat u gonna do?  buy a dozen of it ah??  free each of us 1 N8?  thank you first ya...

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Added on August 5, 2010, 11:51 pm
eh!!  N8 thread talk N8..  *(&(%&^%#%@#$@

u forgot where I from?    haha..

don't talk cock la...  give u source.. u may say it is fake...  is not DivX..  is not H.264 .. is not mkv... is not Dolby TrueHD..  it's not 720p since not on HD screen.. is not enough framerate.. and this list go on......

how 480 euro translate to below 2k leh?  year 2000 keh? 
I believe if the wave can output to 720 screen it will play smoothly.. it a bit lag becoz it have to resize the video.. that take up a lot processing power.... 

to capture a video in 720p obviously need much higher processing power...  if it can capture/process/compress/store it.. there is no reason it can't play it...

After u switch to Android, then u will noticed that Android phone lack alot of features compare to nokia phone.

Haha dude, I've been using alot of Symbian phone b4. Forgot the nokia phone name, but I'll list few of it;

Nokia N81, Nokia N95, Nokia N97 and N900. There are few classic nokia phone I have  used b4. After sold my Nokia N900, I switched to Android, and my first android phone was Motorola Milestone.

As a new android user, I need to suit myself with android environment. The speed, camera quality and yada yada are terribly bad. Great spec but in real life used, it's suck. So I sold Milestone after 1 months of used and bought Nokia E52.

And when Samsung released Samsung Galaxy I9000 S came out with Super AMOLED, 4" screen, 1Ghz Humming Bird, 512MB of RAM, I am WOWED with the great specs I quickly buy it and man, it's is soooo NICE watching video, capture some pictures, HD video recording, but it's lack of FLASH. And after a few weeks using it, I experienced memory RAM problem. Keep having 50~80mb RAM left. It's annoying!

The browsing experience is AWESOME, google handle it very well. But  my experience from using both SGS and Nokia N900, Nokia N900 did very well in browsing experience with full flash player support and most android phone doesn't support full flash until  android 2.2 froyo. And not many android phone will get froyo for your information.

Another what android OS lacking is FREE NAVIGATION software. My Nokia E52 have Ovi Maps and it helped me alot when I'm driving. And Android does not have true multitasking like Symbian and Maemo offered. Yeah, they have eye-candy UI, but lack free navigation, no true multitasking, RAM problem, is what google need to think about.

My Samsung Galaxy I9000 S what's best to keep me around is it's Super AMOLED 4" Screen and Good browsing experience. Other than that, is just plain normal. Maybe after 6 months of using it, I might get bored and get another phone

And one more thing, for our regions, there aren't any paid application from Android Market. You need to root, install MarketAccess/MarketEnabler so you can get the paid application appeared in Android Market. Why such a hassle? Symbian and Maemo does not need all of these. And I bought Samsung Galaxy I9000 S with my HARD EARNED MONEY just to get STUPID FREE APPLICATION only??

What Nokia lacking is their UI. it's BORED, yeah I admit it's BORED. But only the UI they need to improved.

Actually, you're the one that's funny

1. From every nokia phone I've been used, Nokia N97 the most sucks of them all. Bought RM2240 that time, and I regret buying it. Keep getting lack of memory. From both android phone I have been used (Milestone and SGS), both have memory RAM problem. And I can tell, android is bad in utilizing the hardware. Great hardware, but OS sucks utilizing it. Care to debate on this?

2. Brut Map is not android map, dude. Google Map is Android Map. Google have Google Map, but it's sucks. You need to be Online and have GPS function ON and there is no navigation features. And Papago, you need to buy it cost around RM140 while Ovi Maps is free for most of the phone. Now Papago doesn't support froyo. And I heard MFM won't update Papago map. Sucks alot.

3. I can live without the camera flash, but come on, browsing without full flash player support? Means I can't farmville on my phone but my previous Nokia N900 could. Have to wait another months for froyo to arrived. Btw, didn't u ask me what android is lacking? And this is one of it.

4. The things about pirated application, that it's dangerous. Google will be my friend if they let our regions have paid application.

And one more thing, if you wanna take a screenshot of your phone, you need to root first and install the 3rd application. Why such hassle? Root here, root there, to get Super Administrator access. To change the theme, you need to root also. Symbian and Maemo doesn't need all of these

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Added on August 6, 2010, 4:45 pm

Yeah dude, android doesn't have this features. Pretty sucks