I bought the N8 within the first few minutes of its online release. The 808 would have been my next step IF Nokia actually put Windows 8 on the thing. Symbian could have been great if they didn't have to partner with Windows so early on for easy cash. They basically said they were going to Windows 8 right when the N8 came out, right when people took notice that Nokia actually made a phone anyone might want to buy in that smart phone market segment. Unfortunately publicly stating your abandoning Symbian made any potential developer that could have really progressed Symbian to simply not bother. It's a shame. I like Symbian and what Nokia does with their software, but the lack of 3rd party software kills it. The massive software collections for Android, Apple, and soon Windows 8 will ensure Symbian will be truly dead on the smart phone level.
Then Nokia put Symbian on their 808... A LOT of people who want to buy the 41mp phone won't purely on the OS choice alone. I can not stay with an abandoned platform for an upgrade. I can be content with Windows. It likely won't be long until Windows will run all the Android market apps too, so there isn't a major downside.