If you want to switch to the N8 at least wait until PR2.0 for it is out since it's supposed to be a pretty big update.

get both

seriously, they both serve different purposes. it's like deciding to get a van or sedan for your car. they both have each pros and cons

so let see what you need. if you're a typical phone call, sms and camera guy, sell your N900 and get N8 right away. but if you're computer geek who rarely has phone call (seriously, use N900 to phone call is the last thing I wanna do with my N900. I got my other phone for daily phone call and texts), stick with N900

or wait for any meego devices, sell N900 and get that meego thing

I bought two N8s in late December, intending to give one to my brother as a gift... but I unboxed one N8, played with it for a couple hours, and just managed to get it back in the mail the same day for an Amazon return

The hardware is mostly nice, minus the silly plastic doors for SIM, microSD, and HDMI slots, and I'm guessing that they opted to leave the USB slot uncovered, just to keep the silly plastic doors count @ 3

And I agree with a few other posters in this thread... web browser is awful, Contacts, Conversations, and unified inbox is a joke compared to the N900, and Symbian^3 just seemed a bit silly and inconsistent, with a mix of 'Exit', 'Done', 'Cancel', etc... to dismiss dialogs, and some settings are buried in submenus, control panels, etc...... nowhere near the well-conceived UI of the N900.

I was really looking forward to the N8, giving the touchscreen-only (no keyboard) phone a shot, for Swype and some other interesting apps... but I wasn't impressed with the N8 at all.

Maybe PR2.0 will breathe some life into Symbian^3 with some real improvements (namely the awful web browser), but I may be more interested in the E7 if/when it shows up in the US as the final chance to give Symbian^3 another chance.

I think the N9 is the more likely next purchase for me, if the N9 actually shows up at all w/Meego.

I have both the N900 and the N8. I use them for different things. There are some things you can not do on the N8. Browse the web with the full desktop experience for one. The lack of a hardware keyboard is another item. In the N8's favor the virtual keyboard doesn't go on a garble-a-thon everytime you use it like the N900 does.

The N8 is a great phone, text, camera device. If you want to do some real web work, real computing the N900 is the preferred device.

As I've stated in this forum before, if I lost the N8 I wouldn't run out and replace it. Last week I bought a back-up n900 for just in case.

In my view now we've got CSSU support the N900 is miles better than the N8, as given the promises Meamo had about Ovi maps etc I would make sure PR2.0 actually arrives before getting an N8 as the whole symbian OS may get scrapped depending on what Elop as to say on the 11th.

If you want to move away from a N900 for a "real" smartphone the Nexus S looks impressive and at least you will get regular Android updates for a couple of years or you could wait a few months for the Motarola Atrix as that amybe a real step up from the N900?

I would be very wary to invest in Symbian now. Keep the N900 until Nokia announces the bi-annual drop of a steady plan within a week or so.

Then by all means get the N8. Superb build quality and great multimedia features. Like almost all Nokia phones, it has excellent call quality. Ultimately, the two devices are not comparable, as they serve different purposes.

I would certainly choose the N8 over any of the Android devices I have tried, but of course there is The Big Announcement on Friday, though I very much doubt Symbian will be scrapped.

I have both.

Hardly any overlap in capabilities/features.

Both get carried around and used.

Use N8 as:
-Main phone (i can actual answer a call the 1st time i try)
-Camera - simple amazing (missed having N82 camera and fed up of bad quality N900 photos).
-GPS nav is great (im in europe though).
-Quick office viewer free (functionally poor but at least it's provided).
-Symbian looks basic but is smooth (no intermitent slow downs)


Use N900:
-For everything else.
-Even after all this time I still can't believe how good the browser is.


Only problem is you need a large pocket and 2 power sources to charge up.


I wouldn't swap it though, as you will get as irritated by the N8's perculiarities as you may have done with the N900.


I only wish that Nokia had the foresight to combine the features of both phones - particularly the camera and xenon flash which no other highend handset has.

Then they'd only sold you the one phone instead of the two. ;o

I currently have both, and I say no.. I mean if you've got used to Maemo.. you will miss a lot of the things that the N900 can do.

I have both phones so I am enjoying the best of the two..