Maybe I'm weird, but, I couldn't give a s**t about how the phone looks as long as it's got good hardware. I also couldn't give a s**t about S^3 as long as the bugs don't make the phone unusable. S^3 will be thrown to the pigs in a year anyway.
As long as Samsung don't ruin Nokia's party again, like they've done for the past two years, I'll be buying this N8.
Whoever it was that decided to put a Xenon flash in the N8 should be promoted; if it weren't for that flash, I wouldn't even be considering this phone.