ive used it for donkeys mate back in the day it was the smartest going 7610 , 6630 , 6680 , n73 , n80 , n81 , n85 , n86 , n91 , n95 , n97 , 5800 , n8 , e71 , e72 , e6 , 808 ive owned a lot of Symbian phones but over the years its shown its age .... what I should have said is ''it isn't a very smart smartphone o/s now compared to some but it depends on your useage''
for me in Thailand on an adventure it had good points and bad points , but a smartphone for me that gives me a headache when I try to buy stuff from ebay , list an item on ebay , send money via paypal , use internet banking , book a hotel room , keep in touch with loved ones through Skype etc defo isn't the smartest smartphone especially when I have to resort to a pc to get the job done when other operating systems cope with this stuff fine , its not like I was asking it to burn a cd
granted it is a great o/s works on minimal resources very well , has true multi tasking , supports great camera hardware and other hardware , can occupy you with a few games here and there , has tv out in both av and hdmi , is secure , etc etc but for my needs it doesn't quite cut it as a modern smartphone o/s I would need another device and Symbian device just for the activitys I mentioned above when really my smartphone should be able to do it with ease , then on some occasions i would need another camera for shots that require more zoom and manual controls where as with a device like the 920/sgs4/etc I would just need that and a high end point and shoot cam with high zoom and manual mode and good optics like the panosonic tz30 canon sx240 hs etc etc as their o/s lets me do the activitys I have listed above with ease and the high end p+s camera would lets face it offer me more funcinallity in taking pictures and still fit in my pocket unlike a dslr
don't take what I say to heart its just a users opinion and a user who has lived with Symbian since feature pack1 and loved it
its all courses for horses and every user is different but I want my smartphone to be able to do simple things like list an item on ebay/internet bank/web bowse/book hotel rooms/use paypal/ etc easily with as little hassle as possible and I found the 808 to be very tedious at these type of activitys
that's all
please don't think I am being down on it like I say I am a Symbian lover and with spit and polish it could be awesome but at the same time in its current form I find it la king for my smartphone activitys
on the flip side the 41mp camera is superb and I have some really great shots with so much detail its unreal but again you trade off for things like manual controls and optical zoom
for me Symbian at the minute is full of compromises
I also agree with you about the n8 camera module why nokia haven't used this on other phones is beyond me , I still miss my n8 and 808 now and again but then when I use a friends it can be very tedious after using ios/andoid/windows
Symbian does some things great other things it makes you want to bang your head against a wall at and even aas steve slitchfield where you post regulary agrees that once people match nokias camera there wont be anything really to stop people making the switch to windows , android , ios its just a case of the best cameras and xenon flash really other phones can do what Symbian does much easier with less headaches and hoop jumping
back on topic as well (sorry about drifting off I just wanted to clarify what I meant earlier) the 920 I use takes some pretty decent shots , ok not 808 quality but for a phone camera it does me ok , id like it to have xenon flash though , that's what I really miss from my Symbian phones most
I think if the 920 had a micro sd slot and the n8 camera and flash id be a very happy man , maybe slip hdmi out in there too
it would suffice for when I didn't have my sx240 hs with me for sure