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Wongsky Well I had my Nokia N8 from quite early on in it's life. PR1.1 was a OK, PR1.2 seemed to make quite a difference, and I have to say, running Anna and maps 3.06, the N8 is still a great weapon of choice - especially for things like sat nav, camera, DAB, to a certain degree portable video. Maps on Symbian was ruined after 3.06, and Belle was really a backward step compared with Anna.
I've still got a 5230, somewhere, had an E72, and my brother had several of the pre N8 smartphones, and he ran an N8 for a while too.
Generally, pretty good spec hardware, let down by software... <whistles> not that I'm saying owt, like...
I still love my N8, even now - probably the device I've got most varied use out of, and still makes itself useful. I only upgraded software on merit, and to my mind, the N8 reached it's zenith with Anna. My other N8 runs Belle, and I've tried to like it, but it's all form over function - but they've kind of robbed some of the function, too - was that paying Peter to pay Paul - dunno - maybe you do, but both the OS and maps is less feature rich, but looks swishier, so kept the fanboys happy, but those who actually used their N8s, tended to feel awfully robbed with Belle - perhaps most importantly, because it was a one-shot deal, and there was no supported (perhaps safe, really) way of going back.