I do wonder how much it is hardware based and software based. eg, the white balance is horrible, but can be edited in Gallery and be cool..... so that tells me its software.

Some of the low light stuff, I don't know. The n9 tends to be shooting at a hell of a high ISO even at low light... wtf? That seems software.

Of course we don't have Xenon... so that doesn't help our low light situation.

For video... not having 1080p is a downer, but they put a pretty anemic SoC on this thing to support that. I do doubt we'll ever see an N9 successor, which is too bad.

I will say, it shoots good enough for me pictures. I'm loving it too much to replace it.... Swipe UI is just a fantastic idea. I find it lightyears more useful in terms of a SMARTphone than anything out there, but then again I'm not a huge app nerd. I do wish the Tone profiles were more customizable. Even the little niggles, like Contact Sync with Google (... I doubt they'll integrate it outside mFe, but lets hope so), but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

Maybe if WP falls flat we'll get some love.