Here's my two cents so far:

1. CZ is Carl Zeiss. But the lenses used on Nokia phones and Sony cameras are NOT made by Carl Zeiss. It is a "fairly low quality" specification licensing of how good the lense glass and coating is.

2. Why do people want 12MP over 8MP? It's not the MP that you should worry about. It is more about the technology of the sensor, how new it is, its pixel density, its pixel size, image processing, noise reduction algorithm, compression etc. Unless you need that hairline more detail (if lucky) for when you need to crop a tiny portion of the photo and blow it up, 4MP difference makes no difference in the real world. Nada. N8's 12MP sensor is good due to it's relative size, not because of it high MP.

3. I for one want it to play minimun 720p videos even if it's only 4" and WVGA res. No idea why people don't care about this. Some people watch a lot of videos on their phone during train/bus commutes to work etc. I have a lot of 720p videos to watch on my TV at home and the last thing I wanna do is having to re-encode them for the phone or download a SD version as well. (which I do right now due to using N900) SGS2 can play virtually all codecs/formats up to 1080p. (even high profile MKV files) But I'm REALLY happy that K123 confirmed N9 can play at least up to 720p videos while multitasking. SGS2 won't do that as it's Android.

K123, have you tried various codec/file formats such as common h264 MKV's?