Oh, what the **** will it be? Use the iPhone to show how inferior it is when it suits your purposes whilst contrasting to something Nokia offers... or use the iPhone when it supports your purposes?

Either it is a piece of junk like the majority of this forum has pointed out time and time again and it hasn't sold nearly as well as Nokia's offerings... or it's a great seller and has sold damn well despite of Nokia's offerings.

You people tend to straddle either side of that fence when it suits your needs.

Simply put... the iPhone (pre-iPhone 4) resolution was ridiculed here. I personally hated it - it didn't measure up to my N810. I suffered, it sucked, it was passable, I couldn't wait to get back to what I was used to... 800x480. And I jumped to the Samsung Captivate, which has (surprise) 800x480 as its resolution.

As so does the N900, Nexus One, Droid, Droid X and a whole slew of other phones. But to compare a screen of a phone released in 2007 to a phone that's yet to be released in 2010 is downright stupid as hell. And to use the fallback to the oft-ridiculed iPhone (pre-iPhone 4) screen resolution as an argument doesn't make it right. It's an excuse. Symbian^3 shouldn't be limited. And people have to wait for Symbian^4 for a higher resolution phone?

Bollocks.

But I do agree... the N8 will sell like mf'n hotcakes. Priced well, awesome camera/video capabilities, a great set of options, iffy RAM but I'm willing to bet power users won't buy the N8 en masse, they'll be sticking around for the N9.

But to keep going back to the well for the iPhone (pre-iPhone 4) resolution and looking at it as a sign of what sold well and what might still sell well. It ain't 2007 no more.

I agree fully. But guess what... I'm here. I'd have to say that only a very small portion of the people here are considered "mass market" types. You guys know too damn much to be considered "mass market" types.

The screen resolution is lacking too much for my likes. I have a limit, I am not stepping below it ever again. I was speaking then and now of myself.