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Yep, I've been thinking the same thing for a while now what with Iphone, Blackberry and Android making Nokia a definite 4th place sort of "also ran" type of maker. Shame really, they used to be the best but never did enough development to stay there.

I read somewhere last year the nokias R&D budget larger than the rest combined, the problem was they were so inefficient, that the products at the end were years behind the competition.

And then there was the symbian open source effort  
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I had 4 Nokias: Ngage, N80,N95, N95 8GB and N96. they all were great.

but when the Iphone 3G came out I got one for free so I changed

but there is Hope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZssHGR-Qg

Unfortunately no phone's camera comes anywhere the N8's. That being said, I decided to go for the Samsung Galaxy S2 because I like android and I love the 1.2GHz dual core cpu.

A real shame as there is no decent Nokia PC Suite equivalent for any of the competition and it's a feature I really miss. There are a few "wannabes" but they are buggy and difficult to use

I do believe nokia will come back in a year or so's time, once everyones bored of the iPhone.