Nokia makes great hardware. Unfortunately for them everyone else has caught up. Aside from that, the reason they are losing out to the competition is the software. Symbian has hardly changed in the years since it was introduced. Maemo is a vastly superior operating system, yet Nokia fumbled it so badly that no one will remember it next year aside from a small group similar to those that remember Amiga. MeeGo has unlimited potential and maybe Intel will pull it up by it's bootstraps, but after seeing how Nokia handled Maemo it's really hard to believe that they won't fumble MeeGo into obscurity as well.

So no, the N8 won't save Nokia. The only thing that will is a radical restructuring of how they promote their devices, and how they develop their software. They need to spend LOTS of money getting their software and services on par with Google and Apple, and they need to spend the money to make sure that the OVI store has more than a handful of mostly useless apps on it. They cannot rely entirely on opensource community apps, as great as many of them are. They need to pay developers bounties, like Microsoft is doing for Windows Phone 7. Right now even that turd looks more promising because at least it's got some backing from companies that are actually in the software business.

For more than 10 years I used to pull really hard for Nokia, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I waste any more money testing their lame duck software for them. I feel sorry for the guy that paid almost retail for my n900.