I'm sure this will be taken as flame bait or trolling by some... but I briefly had an N8, and hated it...

And I just received a shiny new E7 yesterday.... and... wait for it... hated it

I really did like the E7 keyboard, but the camera is absolutely awful, on a different planet compared to the n900.

My general experience with the E7 was that it was extremely laggy, just running 2 or 3 fairly passive apps at the same time... like editing the home screen panels, while also having the 'global' settings for the phone open, and checking email... in other words, not even running 'heavy' apps, like video editing, web browser, or anything interesting.

In any case, after giving the N8 and E7 a chance, I'm fairly convinced that no Symbian device will even come close to the Maemo experience on the n900, and that Symbian feels more like a sloppy beta-quality OS with a poorly conceived UI and overall user experience.

I have a feeling that nothing will really compare to the n900 for quite a while