If the camera sucks, then there's no point getting the N8. The main reason I'm eyeing this phone is because of the camera. If it's nothing short of excellent, I'll save my money for another Android.

No way Symbian^3 or iPhone 4 can customize my Android like this...

I seriously don't understand why they didn't implement smooth scrolling for the homescreen, instead of adding a delay. It's not hard! I had to program an iPhone application with pseudo smooth-scrolling (without using built-in components) and it took me about a day. Nokia had 5+ months.

And yes, no portrait qwerty? That's like a super-simple thing to program.

My only guess is that Symbian's code is so hard to maintain that even making small changes takes days.

What phone is that? C0? China knock-off ah?

Okay, the GSMArena test proves the N8 definitely has great camera potential.

For the UI, I still need to test the N8 hands on.

I hope Nokia won't forget this device after it releases Meego/N9. It will be good if they continue to give us Symbian^3 updates to improve the firmware in the future.

Even if the UI does suck now, if Nokia promises to not forget the loyal customers that support the N8, these customers might still buy from Nokia in the future.

GSMArena just posted up their Nokia N8 preview. I know a few of you say it's kind of laggy in the local showrooms, but the N8 GSMArena video seems quite smooth and responsive.

That's possible. My Android HTC Hero felt laggy after leaving it turned on for too long. But it was more the fault of HTC Sense. After I replaced the default Home application with LauncherPro, it feels quick even after long periods. One of the benefits of Android customizability.

What I'm worried about is whether Nokia will forget N8 in less than a year. Remember the N86? It was released in June 2009, but they stopped updating the firmware after less than a year (April 2010). They decided to focus on N8, and forgot about the customers (including me) who supported their N86. If they release N9 in the middle of next year, I wonder if they'll also stop working on N8 updates.

My Hero still has 50% after 2 days of use. But the screen is smaller than Galaxy S and I don't use 3G. The biggest battery sucker seems to be web browsing using WiFi.

How's the Symbian^3 interface? Responsive enough?

Haha yeah I read your posts last night. Just wanted a second opinion from blurboy.

Some lucky guy in Europe has 4 N8s... He seems to enjoy his N8 a lot. The homescreen looks much better after customizing from the default Nokia one.

I notice Nokia spends a lot of money into marketing - making commercials and hosting these big events. But I notice they rarely in these commercials spend time showing the user interface. Only the hardware.

If only they spent as much effort into improving Symbian...

Just watched this demonstration of the HTC Desire HD. Very tempting.
Poisoning me away from Nokia N8.

I think the Desire Z 800Hz (MSM7230) is better than the old Desire's 1GHz (QSD8250).
But the Desire HD is using the 2nd generation 1GHz (MSM8255) so it should still be faster than Z.

The Mid Valley guy told be would be around 1,800. Don't think they'll change the price last minute to over 2000.

But if they do, yeah, definitely I'll be looking for another Android. iPhone 4 is a big no-no for me though. No BlueTooth, Flash or USB file transfers.

You're right, one could jailbreak the iPhone 4 and give it features it's missing. But these features come by default on Android/Nokia without rooting. And they don't void your warranty.

I don't think there's been many reviews on the 8MP cam yet.
Edit: Video removed. Thanks to Deswin for pointing out that the video has already been posted.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Oct 8 2010, 02:36 PM

I use Maxis prepaid. If exceed monthly quota if 500MB they just cut off.

I'm thinking of switching to DiGi but I heard DiGi's coverage not as good as Maxis's.