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I agree and disagree with loopphoto here. The N8's camera is just stunning, equal if not much better than the iPhone 4's cam. However, Symbian is a burning platform and it doesn't make sense to buy it for long term use at the moment. If you're buying it just for the camera, it's a great choice. The camera/sensor on the N8 are probably the best smartphone cam available. However, if you're getting it for long term use I would advise against it as Symbian is dying.

I went from a Windows Mobile phone to a Nokia. I don't see people moving from an iPhone or Android phone to a Nokia smartphone because the people who like iPhones and Androids are looking for something besides apps. They're looking for reliability, flexibility, and one of the best cameraphones on the market. Maybe even basic e-mail. I'm running on a Nexus S right now, and I like it a lot, but I still think one of the best smartphones I've ever owned as my Nokia N73 (it was so good that the four year old phone saved my bacon when my BlackBerry decided to go nuts barely three months before my contract was up). I wanted the N8 to be so good, so hard, but Nokia just couldn't make Symbian or MeeGo look any good until Belle (after they killed the platform), and couldn't attract developers.

I've always been a Nokia lover and having used their devices for many years, I didn't buy the Nokia N8 because after demoing the device I didn't feel the speed was up to par with the latest devices on the market. I felt that Nokia could have done something great with the N8, making it a super fast and usable device, but the software seems to have been crippled by cost cutting the hardware department with lacking RAM and a slow CPU.

Hopefully now that they no longer are focusing on software (with their Microsoft partnership), they can again make great hardware. I will most definitely go back to buying Nokia phones when they do that.

Blackberry and an iPad makes sense to me, but Nokia...not really.
I can understand that you want a phone and a good camera though, as all the Blackberry cams are really not that good.
I carry around a around an iPhone 4, iPad 2 64gb 3G and a Galaxy S 2 after having just decided that I'm not going to carry around a phone just for BBM, but if I was only able to carry around one device I'd def choose my iPhone 4 - Camera is pretty amazing(I'm a pro photographer) and when the cam fails, there are just so many amazing editing apps that make up for it.
Email, web browsing and all the other stuff is amazing on it as well.