In lowlight, smaller sensors usually don't do well, even high end digital camera, EVEN entry level DSLR. What's more the N8; The only thing is with better option like adjusting slower shutter speed, etc, but then you're limited to capture non-moving objects. With lower shutter speed, you will get blur shots when trying to capture movements. For DSLR, they can get faster lens with f1.8 or even wider aperture like f1.4, etc to gain faster shutter usage, or increase the ISO. Increasing the ISO will introduce more noise, losing details. Even DSLR suffers from this and it have the ability to use better lens, what's more with digital camera or phone camera.

Low Light photography is always a challenge, and requires skills and good camera with good lens. Try photographing in dinner ballroom when the lights dim down and people are walking around; Most camera will fail badly, even low end DSLR. But if you're taking about static/non-moving object photography, then having more controls will surely help (example: you can take a photo in dark room with ISO sets to 100, shutter speed as slow as 2 seconds or even longer; your picture will turn out superb).

The thing is to know your camera ability or limit, and utilize it properly. Like the saying goes, assign the right people for the right job.


Is it worth it? Just for the gaming? Honestly, I hardly touch my iPod Touch; Although I compare similar games with N8, the iPod Touch version is better and it's also much smoother. Still I hardly touch it; Touch based ONLY games are only THAT much, still better play PSP or console games. The only frustrating thing is some games are available for iOS but not on PSP, and some games are ACTUALLY better on iOS (example: Need For Speed SHIFT... the PSP version is... totally rubbish...)

That's frame dropping on N900 video recording; Known issues... But I think if you keep your N900 clean with little or no widgets on the Desktop, it might have better performance? I remember last time when I first have it, I have little or no problems with the video recording frame drop issue, never notice it long ago.
With frame dropping, when you share/upload the video to Facebook, the processed video will have some issues when playback.

The HD video capture with N8, totally unplayable on N900, even when using mplayer.