I prefer this phone over HTC and I like that it's a bit smaller cos I've got tiny hands!

Who else has got one that loves it?? And how good is the camera? I know its the most megapixals but I read the flash is amazing too.

My friend works for a phone company and says it's cack

Your friend is an idiot, sorry.

The N8 camera is pretty damn good. Its almost totally replaced my compact - stills are excellent, video is excellent as well.

Speed - Menus respond immediately. The alleged lag on the home screens is a design choice, apparently soon to be removed. Even though the browser isn't that great, it does render pages a lot faster than my ZTE Blade (and I do mean a *lot* faster)

Games - angry birds, NFS shift, cannonball .... all good, doubly so when you play them on a big screen

Battery life - I'd probably get a couple of days if I wasn't hammering it all day, music, pictures, wifi, video, browsing, calls via bluetooth.

Plays divx videos without transcoding. Plugging in a USB memory stick for file transfer is pretty cool. HDMI output is good - had the Tron trailers playing on our 42" screen and they looked quite good.

I wondered if I'd use my Blade at all after buying the N8, but I really haven't - apart from having two devices that'll play Angry Birds allowing us to play in parallel.

Haha, yep he is! He's got an iphone4 and htc trophy. I'd love an iphone4 but they're just too expensive for me.

I can't wait for mine to arrive now! I haven't owned a Nokia since the 3310, which I LOVED! Someone stole it My Dads got one, I'm not sure which model its a real basic one, but I really like that.

My brother just got the HD Desire. I was playin on it last night and loved it. But it's just a bit too big. It is really nice though.

I'l let you know how I get on with my N8 tomorrow (hopefully if delivery is correct) I love taking photo's and then looking at them on the tv, which I normally have to remove my memory card, put it into an adaptor then use the playstation which is fiddly. So the HDMI on the N8 is a massive bonus, can just plug it straight into the tv

You may not even need to use the HDMI - both the PS3 and the N8 support DLNA, which means that the two can wirelessly connect together - in settings/connectivity/video sharing - switch it on. Then iirc you can search for devices from the PS3, and the N8 should appear. At least thats how its tended to work before ....

Seriously?? That'd be amazing!

I'll have to try and let you know how I get on. I get so confused with things like that I'm quite thick with geeky stuff.

With Windows XP it was quite an awkward process ... but with Windows 7 I've noticed that my netbook just appears as a device on the PS3s menus! Hopefully nothing geeky required

I'll try it tonight when the little 'un has gone to sleep and I have the telly to myself.

I hope that all you have to do is enabled sharing on the N8, then tell the PS3 to browse for devices (somewhere on the video menu iirc). Then browse to the N8 from the PS3 and in the pictures/video (maybe music?) you'll see all your N8s content.

I have had one for the past 2 weeks now and having been a previous Nokia/Symbian user i'm very happy and comfortable with the phone. Took it to Brussels on my weekend trip and took over 1000 amazing photos and 2 hours of videos. Its really a nice phone.....

clonmult how did you get on? I so can't wait for mine to arrive. I'm only on a short shift tomorrow morning but I'm hoping someone will be to sign for my phone if it arrives before I finish work!

Why does everyone slate the Symbian thing? I've never used it or Android so I got nothing to compare and don't get the difference really. I loooove taking photo's when I go places. Me and some close friends take our dogs all over the place, different beaches, forests, woods, anywhere we can find so it'll be really handy having a brill camera with me all the time

I'm glad to hear that the Nokia N8 is a decent phone, as mine arrives tomorrow too

Sadly didn't get a chance last night (the pains of being on-call 24x7).

People slate Symbian for no particularly good reason. A lot of the grief will probably be coming from N97 owners (which was a mixed bag - definitely problems early on), and those who's only experience is the early S^1 devices (ie. 5800). The early S^1 interface was fairly inconsistent, but S^3 is pretty darned slick.

I'm continually surprised by the camera, and rather than just taking snaps I'm trying to use it more like a proper camera, making better use of composition (where possible), pre-focus to capture a moment, etc.

I would avoid buying the N8 because of the Symbian OS.

If you're fine with random freezing, a dated Internet experience, laggy menus, small app store, an ugly GI and the worst typing/keyboard experience of any up-to-date smartphone, then buy one.

If it's the 12mpx camera you like the sound of, then why in nearly all the online tests I've seen is it equal to or worse than the iPhone 4's 5mpx?

Expect to pay more than the HTC Desire, which is actually a good device on par with the iPhone.

Please don't troll, and please don't believe the rubbish spouted by Gizmodo or Engadget.

The only freezing on mine has been down to Opera (which also used to freeze S^1 devices) and the HyperX camera mods - once uninstalled I haven't had any device freezing. At all.

There are no laggy menus. The home screen "lags", but that was a rather strange design choice which will apparently go in the next update.

The UI looks as good as that on Android or IOS, and if you add on a suitable theme, then it can actually look better.

It only lacks a portrait qwerty keyboard, the landscape one is equal to that on either iOS or Android (and yes, I've owned/used both).

And as for the camera .... anyone who says that the iPhone 4 camera is better is an idiot. The camera in the N8 is leagues ahead of any other mobile, and quite a lot of dedicated cameras as well. The iPhone 4 literally produces rose-tinted images that aren't accurate to the real world - the N8 really is at the bleeding edge of mobile phone cameras.

None of the competition offer the same level of features - free sat nav (google maps does not compare), HDMI output (play NFS Shift on a 42" screen, using the phone as a controller), USB on the go (which is cool, I can connect up to my e-reader, a USB stick, or my DSLR to backup or mail images).

And I'd prefer to have a small app store than an app store that seems to have 95% of the content being rubbish.

Most blogs are full of americans Nokia does fairly well in Europe. What PEncil said could apply to some phones of yesteryear its not the case for the N8. Although since Pencil also said the camera is on par if ont worse than the iPhone just proves its all a load of BS.

drivel

random freezing - my phone has crashed once whilst playing angry birds
a dated Internet experience - what's that now? it's a full browser, pinch zoom, flash, html5
laggy menus - you've not used one have you
small app store - ovi is smaller than the other two but but the apple store has is full of tat. you can only use the apps you download
an ugly GI - UI. that is a matter of taste.
the worst typing/keyboard experience of any up-to-date smartphone - since it would appear you've not used one i'm not sure how you can say that. But Swype is pretty cool and probably the best way of typing.

the camera is much better than the iPhone, that is just a fact.

Nokia had their chance to impress me with the N96 which has given me two years of unrivalled disappointment. It works ok as a phone though.
Won't be giving them any more of my business.

Why did you ever go for the N96 though? It was never as well specced as other devices in the range.

Your loss though, the N8 is a damn good handset. And in my experience extremely reliable.

Yes my phone has arrived! I've left it charging and will have a go in a couple of hours. Will do my housework first!!
Quick question-Can you change the font on it? I hate Nokia font!

In theory you can, but I've not tried making any such changes.

Just found one nice little element ....

Disconnected the dongle from my laptops wireless keyboard (just a cheap trust jobby), connected it up to the N8. Both keyboard and mouse worked perfectly! Rather strange to have a mouse pointer on the screen of the mobile, being driven by a keyboard and mouse that are considerably larger.

Will definitely be useful when I connect up the phone as a media center

I've been trying to use it for the past half hour or so. It's frozen a few times, crashed once and every time I click connect to social networks, it says network unavailable

Im sending the phone back tomorrow I LOVE LOVE LOVE the actual phone, but the software is just awful So annoying. I can't get onto the OVI store at all. Just always says cannot connect. Can't get onto Vodafone web or anything-it says sign into vodafone 360 to continue. I went online on my computer to do this and the phone isn't compatible. So gutted. Will be going on sim only til a phone I like comes and and using my old samsung lucido. I LOVE the N8, but it just doesn't work properly

If that's your opinion, I respect that. However...

http://www.intomobile.com/2010/10/05...re-comparison/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/30/n...mera-showdown/

http://www.sapiensbryan.com/index.ph...8-vs-iphone-4/

I'm no fan boy or troll. I have though used the N8 and found it disappointing. I was all set the buy it just a week or so ago, to replace my iPhone 3GS. But now, it's looking as though I may have to buy the HTC Desire HD or iPhone 4. Which one, I haven't yet made up my mind.

I have to say Iam surprised that you would have wanted to switch to nokia N8 from the an Iphone!

Dispite what many say (in the so called tech media!) the Nokia N8 is not ment to be taking on the iphone even tho it comes close. This is from the very top of Nokia that the real 'high end' phone will be the N9 and other phones running the new Meego platform.

I would say I am a bit of a Nokia fan, but even I would say like Pencil if you are an Iphone user you are not likely to think much of OS! It is ofcourse fine for me and millions of others who are more used to Symbian instead of the bling bling iOS. So yeah Pencil stay well clear of Nokia if you have an iphone and try again next year when Meego is released!

Hi Mrstimmy, thats a real shame! I would say that the real problem in your case is not the phone or the software per say or even nokia. the problem is vodafone. Vodafone and Orange are the worst UK networks for putting un necessary software on decent phones!

Even tho it is a brand new phone (and yes nokia really need to sort out ready to go software in the factory!!) you would still be recommended to update the phone's software once its out of the box, to make it fully stable, that is if you could access the internet! ofcourse!

It sounds like you've had a rough time with vodafone and after your trouble I would also cancel with them . However I would not let vodafone get in your way of getting the phone you want. I would suggest trying 02 or 3 depending on want deal you need or even justing waiting until the price drops & getting it on prepay in a few months time! My N8 arrives tommorrow got it on an upgrade from 3 so hopefull should be a lot smoother.

Good luck what ever you decide !

It does sound like more of a problem with Voda than the phone itself. I've got an "orange" branded N8, and apart from the default home page, there is no branding at all!

One thing that is worth looking at is where the phone was made - its on the bottom by the power connector. Sounds like the chinese manufactured ones have more problems; mine was made in Finland.

Well the first one comes to the conclusion that the N8 is better and the iphone needs very good light to get a decent picture. The engadget one was shown to have done some very poor resizing/resampling and the pictures they took were just plain poor. The last one uses "official" pictures and comes to no conclusion at all. maybe a link to some of the others like gsmarena is needed too

Personally the greatly enhanced colouring used by the iphone is its detriment for me, they look awful when green/red is shown in the picture.