Random musings ...
Just started a new job and received an N8 as a company mobile last week. Random musings ...
In general, I'd say the review is pretty accurate. The first time I handled an N8 was when I opened the box. Have to say it looks a lot better in the (gun) metal than the various images I'd seen on the web.
I'm coming back to Nokia after about 9 months using a Motorola Milestone (before that I had an E51+E52 for a few years) The on-screen keyboard on the Milestone was so good that I'd happily have chosen my next Android phone without a physical keyboard. I'm really struggling with the N8 qwerty keyboard - can't seem to get any degree of accuracy. Hoping I will get used to it (or the firmware will be tweaked) soon. The numeric keyboard actually works fairly well - makes more sense to me than having a cramped qwerty keyboard in portrait mode.
OS navigation is better than I remember from the E52, but I still find myself hunting for the right place to change settings, and that's as a veteran Symbian user. On the Milestone, things were nearly always exactly where I expected.
All of the above, I can live with. The thing I really missed on day one was the ability to synch my contacts / calendar with the google (without resorting to cludgy workarounds) . After a couple of days tinkering, another downside is the lack of decent apps. Nokia could do with throwing some of their cash at 3rd party developers to help them catchup in the apps market.
Apps wishlist :
Some software to handle N8 to PC video calls
Evernote client
Decent weather app (that works)
Ebay app
On the plus side : call quality; camera, media playback are all excellent. And it's great to have Gravity back ! Oh and the battery seems to last about 30% longer than the Milestone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
