If you are a Symbian or Nokia S60 fan, your day has come. The Nokia N8 is the best Symbian device to have ever been sold. It has a great hardware design, good software capabilities, and the most usable touch interface ever offered on Symbian, thanks to the phone's new Symbian^3 smartphone operating system.
Highlights of the phone include a stellar 12 megapixel camera with xenon flash and 720p HD video recording capability, a good music player with both FM receiver and transmitter capabilities, an improved home screen, and messaging support that finally offers threaded text messaging.
The phone has its downsides, though, like a weak browser that Nokia has promised it will replace in a future firmware update. While the camera on the N8 feels very, very fast, other aspects of the phone sometimes seem to drag a bit, and I found the touchscreen to be less accurate than what the competition offers.
Overall, it's a great device for Symbian fans, and the beautiful hardware and color options will appeal to many, but I don't think current users of competing smartphone platforms will find it very welcoming.
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