I have to say, a big congratulations to Nokia team for making this happens. There is one thing I really like about, is that they are actually having a N8 along with a competitor phone like Iphone or N1/SGS/Desire for their own usage and was able to understand the pro's and con's of Nokia N8.
Honestly, I just got my hands onto it and havent explore much yet. There are some changes made, pro's and con's. This phone is turning out not as bad as I would expect in the first place. Although S^3 really does not differ much from previous version, what made up for it was the overall responsiveness of the system which is comparable to my HTC Legend running on Android 2.1. The strong point of N8 is definitely its multimedia capability. Camera and Video looks amazing, HD playback is very smooth, 5.1 sound... What really surprised me was by using HDMI out and bypassing the N8 DAC, the audio quality is really good, depending on your audio system of course.
BTW, for the someone who posted the picture of portrait keyboard in N8, thats not going to happen... confirmed that no portrait keyboard... but there is some surprise for landscape keyboard. It actually has a mode where it will default to word suggestion correction which is a nice touch. This is a good step forward.
I must find ways to port my contacts and see if they have implemented alphabet scrolling... back to testing...
This post has been edited by andrekua: Oct 15 2010, 11:53 PM