Nokia N8 launch draws queues of excited customers

Butter me in Chocolate and call me Kevin! There were queues of people waiting to get their hands on the Nokia N8 at Nokia stores in Helsinki, Beijing, Shanghai and Moscow on Friday.

The Nokia Conversations blog has the details and pictures. Here’s one of those photos:

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This is good news for Nokia. It’s going to be a long, long painful road of recovery.

[Meanwhile, there were no customers queuing outside the London store — because, yes, that’s right, some dumbass (as they call them in America) decided to close it. If the same dumbass is still reading, here’s All About Symbian’s top 10 suggestions for what could have been done with the Regent Street Store.]

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