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2010-09-30 , 23:39
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
no it is not the way nokia will get back people they need to succes with a meego phone NOW.
Different segment.

As many here says techspec may be nice for people who is camera freaks. IF the camera take as good pics as the specs says. pixels doesnt say all...
Yes.

In all other stuff N900 is better.
Orly! Such strong arguments... Can Ovi Maps suck more than on N900? Doubt it. How about the battery life of N900? The out of the box experience? Would you be willing to argue the usability on N900 is better than iOS, Android, or S^3? The flippin' USB port stays where it should remain where it ought to be on any smartphone, including this one? Scratches on screen? Since Nokia N8 will be widely shipped in volume, and since Nokia tend to support their Symbian devices better (N-Series and E-Series flagships), I expect better software support from Nokia for this device than for N900.

The last Symbian OS versions (not S^3) for touchscreen were just 'hacked' versions; not completely optimized, written from scratch. S^3 is a lot like MeeGo in that regard, and both will benefit from Qt-based applications eventually, but S^3-based devices are shipping now whereas MeeGo-based ones aren't.

Note here above I'm not saying blah sucks -- just this 'blah isn't as good as bleh but for the rest it is better' is a friggin' joke.

But there is one good thing with it and that is QT and that is a BIG step forward for symbian/meego developers
It is called Qt, Symbian, MeeGo.

Originally Posted by olighak View Post
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In fact the whole device seemed choppy / laggy. I half like the way it looks [..]
Yeah, it shouldn't be choppy out of the box, but it isn't as if we didn't have to hack our N900 to makeit responsive (hildon-desktop, swappiness, overlock, ...)

Physical keyboard and lens cover are minimum demands
I'm giving swype a chance.

[edit]On the note of N8 versus N900 features it seems like N8 supports USB OTG out of the box:

Mobile phones that support USB OTG are among others the Nokia 6600 slide and Nokia N8 mobile phones.[3][4] [...]
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