If the price does end up being £429 inclusive, NO WAY! It’s £382 inclusive of sales tax on the French Nokia site. There’s no way I’ll buy one for my wife in the UK if Nokia insist on marking the price up by over 12% compared to mainland EU.

Nokia first said the N8 would cost £320 sim free an how are they going to succede with the price increased by £100 or more,people will now be not buying the N8 straight away an wait to the price drops,an before i buy any mobile i like to read a review about the mobile i want to buy,an definetly want to see an read a review about the N8 before i splash my cash out,just hope Nokia have not let its customers down again

@andy burgin

They\’ve said no such thing. Nokia\’s PR prices are always, ALWAYS pre-tax. The increased VAT in the UK certainly isn\’t helping v_v

I think we’ve always known the price to be around this considering UK Retailers have set their pre-orders at this price (clove tech, handtec, expansys, play, etc)

The price announced by Nokia was always an estimate excluding VAT the price seems accurate however their UK pricing should really reflect their EU pricing

There’s no reason residents of the UK will order within the UK when they can so very easily order from France etc

The N8 costs $550 in the USA which is £357 excluding VAT which is accurate

Meant to add, the Mobilefun price includes VAT and their price virtually matches that of Nokia Germany and Nokia Netherlands as both these sites are showing the N8 for €479.

Nokia Spain and Nokia Italy are showing the N8 for €469.

While Nokia France is the cheapest, showing a price of €459.

Clearly there is some regional differences/movement on price but nothing as dramatic as quoted by this article which suggests either this article is wrong or if it’s true then Nokia have some cheek fleecing the UK consumer for such an amount which may prove too high a bar to get Nokia back in the game over here in Blighty. I hope this article is wrong and the price is no higher than £400/€480.

£429 does not sound bad at all. When the Nokia N97 came out here in South Africa it cost roughly £700. We do normally pay more here for tech so £429 sounds really cheap.

Just had a quick look around and the Samsung Galaxy s can be bought for £429 sim free in the UK. Is there anybody here who would challenge my assertion that the Galaxy S offers significantly more advanced hardware than the Nokia N8 and an operating system which is considered to be at the high end of the smart phone eco-system rather than Symbian 3′s bread and butter position?

Let’s face it, Nokia are foolish if they think the N8 can compete with the likes of whatever replaces the HTC Desire, the iPhone 4, new Galaxy S etc. It’s way behind them on both specification and OS. In the UK, it will need to be pitched at less than £300 or free on a £20 unlimited data contract to sell in the sort of volumes they appear to want from it. The problem is at that price, it starts bumping into plenty of other Nokia offerings…

Fine, in a game of top trumps against the current crop of top flight phones the N8 wins on camera megapixels, but it looses virtually everywhere else on the specification front. In fact, can we have a serious conversation about which phones specifically the N8 is going up against this Autumn instead of just harping on about the 12 mpix camera like it’s the only thing that matters to phone buyers?

Hmmm… seems like Nokia has priced itself out of the competition.

Probably shouldn\’t get this, unless you can get a good discount with a 2-year contract. Or wait till 6 months later, after the inevitable software/firmware updates and price reduction. Who knows, there may be better phones, Nokia or non-Nokia, by Q2 2011. *Samsung Galaxy S2? IPhone 5?*

If you need a similar specced Nokia phone that is slightly cheaper, I suggest waiting for the Nokia C7. In fact, I personally may go for the C7 over the N8. I can do without HDMI or that extra 4 megapixels of Carl Zeiss camera. Not going to splurge too much money on a Symbian^3 device, knowing that the N8 is likely to be the last of the N series phone running on Symbian.