I think Nokia's hype machinery has failed at least partially if you are tellimg me you haven't seen any specs, hands on's or rumors about N8. As moderately satisfied Symbian user I have good feeling about it. But I'm looking forward for the camera maybe more than the next person probably.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/08/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-12/

I don't know. One of the most successful OVI app store developers is Digital Chocolate, which is based on California. I can buy their games just fine here in Europe.

what is a check and why should I by using them?

Maybe because iPhone is 3 times more expensive that other phones overall. Also because they started to sell iPhone without paying anything.

Sorry, I haven't seen that. I thought the contracts between manufacturers were secret.

Well you don't know what the terms were or were not.

Maybe it's just my lack of english, but doesn't desperate mean something like "only thing left to do" or something like that.

In USA Nokia has been a non player for years mainly because of non existing operator "support". People in USA just don't want to buy phones without contracts. And Nokia doesn't want operators crippling their phones. But I see very little in this case that would help sell more Nokia phones in USA, so the market share loosing in US has nothing to do with this patent case..

Nokias market share is still around 38-40% of all phones sold worldwide. It sells more phones in one quarter than Apple has sold ever.

It depends how the manufacturer licensed the tech from Nokia. (or from anyone else) Basically there's no way to cut corners, you pay from the technology either yourself directly to the patent owner or you pay the same to the manufacturer who then pays to the patent owner.

Nokia or other patent owners are probably less willing to make such deals with manufacturers as it's better to have more control on pricing than give the control to the manufacturer/subcontractor.

Please quote some other source than Apple for this...

Well you don't know that, because you don't know how others have licensed those patents. Or what Apple was willing to pay. If you do please tell me.

I think Apple was willing to pay something and that something wasn't enough, or was in other ways conflicting what others pay for the same thing.

Maybe Samsung own some nice HW patents as it's one of the largest chip manufacturers in the world. LG is not a small player either.

Apple has GSM standard patents?

I would say your E71 makes better phone calls. Also it's good to compare apples and oranges.

Maybe let me listen to music/talk on the phone/take photos/write email, sms while the IM program is running?

They allow programmers to use web OS specific API that allows filewrites for example.