Wow, high end pricing in Europe, 449$ US vs. a price around 449 Euro...in Swiss Francs 500.- (US) vs. 740.- (Europe), close to 50% price difference! Shipping/import taxes is about the same wether I have it sent to me from the US or EU.

So the only difference I see is the hardware keyboard layout (QWERTY withouth Umlauts in the US, QWERTZ with Umlauts in the European version). Can the keyboard layout be changed in the software settings, e.g. when I choose german as the N810's language, is the hardware keyboard layout changed as well?

Any other disadvantage of a native german speaker when buying an US version? All I know of is that Nokia has a 2 years european wide warranty (including Switzerland) for european devices, US is 1 year only. Any hint appreciated ;-)