Hello,

never tried the N8 but from what I hear it's pretty good. Especially with the Belle update. As for Lumia, well I got one from work for free and after using it for 2 weeks I gave it away and bought the N9. Lumia is boring, super boring. They say there are over 80.000 apps on the marketplace but most are useless crap. I've downloaded more apps, and great apps on N9.

Lumia also lacks in basic functionalities and options one has gotten used to on a Nokia phone. Everything is elementary. And don't forget, windows 8 is around the corner and there is no guarantee the Lumias will be capable to update. This means it will be obsolete, more so than it has for almost two years now!

I'd recommend N8, N9 or 808 Pureview.