Simian was never stable, my 6680 was restarting several times a day, very annoying when during a call, the 5800 express music was such a disappointment, it was nokia's answer to iphone 2, my N900 was the most stable nokia I've ever had till if refused to switch on one day, it was only landscape mode, the front camera and the infrared port were completely unusable, because nokia decided that somebody would make apps for them? Very stupid idea! Maps were bad, very bad, nothing like simian^3, the updates - it seems that nokia really doesn't give a shhh about the users and makes nothing to improve user experience, I'm using now N8 which is way better that N900, but it also crashed several times before the Anna update, it's no fun, the thing I don't like at first place - no flash support, no external intelligence like siri, maps ain't that good, the camera also! the truth is that nokia are using cheaper parts - lower resolution displays, low performance processors... hey but the have good designers 
and they use standard ports - like hdmi, sim (not micros sim), usb; i really dont like iphone's stupid charging and everything else port which reminds me of the old nokia's phones headset port, which was superbad !!!
whatsamatteryou wrote:
thanse wrote:Hi I have a n8 it works perfect for me and I have never had any problems at all with the phone
it does what I want I keep it updated when updates are available,I have had it fore over a year now in fact it is so god that I did buy one more last week to stay safe if the first one breaks or get
damaged.
I wonder what that belle update do fix or correct on my phone that already is really god.
I want new functionality and stuff but it is really no rush to get it like yesterday if you know what I mean.
:trond
Dont worry too much ... I have abused mine and it still works
30 metre fall down a concrete silo landing on concrete
lol - this is the funny one
working on my car one weekend and talking to freinds and I left my black N8 on the engine cover. Well, as you can guess there was something I needed at the store and off I went
at about 30km I heard something banging around in my radiator fan and then a bump, bump as my 2 ton 4x4 went over it. Oh sheet...
IT WAS STILL WORKING.... and has for the last 6 months since.
OMG upload pics!!! interested in what it looks like after all that torture 
XxWWWSAMxX wrote:
whatsamatteryou wrote:
thanse wrote:Hi I have a n8 it works perfect for me and I have never had any problems at all with the phone
it does what I want I keep it updated when updates are available,I have had it fore over a year now in fact it is so god that I did buy one more last week to stay safe if the first one breaks or get
damaged.
I wonder what that belle update do fix or correct on my phone that already is really god.
I want new functionality and stuff but it is really no rush to get it like yesterday if you know what I mean.
:trond
Dont worry too much ... I have abused mine and it still works
30 metre fall down a concrete silo landing on concrete
lol - this is the funny one
working on my car one weekend and talking to freinds and I left my black N8 on the engine cover. Well, as you can guess there was something I needed at the store and off I went
at about 30km I heard something banging around in my radiator fan and then a bump, bump as my 2 ton 4x4 went over it. Oh sheet...
IT WAS STILL WORKING.... and has for the last 6 months since.
OMG upload pics!!! interested in what it looks like after all that torture
I would but you cannot see anything as I did replace the glass as it landed face down in the road and cracked the glass (1 hairline fracture). The exterior has no marks and now looks the same as before. If I had driven over it face up it would have been without any marks. A small bit of rock was driven into the surface of the glass hence the crack. Still worked fine and I just replaced the glass and bezel after a week( if you do this get both -easier).
