You are absolutely right, anything that pre-dated the iPhone touchscreen simply does not relate to what we are finding these days, regardless of the OS. Chalk and cheese would be apt.

Isn't the N8 Nokia's first capacitive touchscreen? At least in the Symbian variant? So the N8 is very new for Nokia on two counts.

The new CEO offers hope that Nokia's "lost sheep" syndrome can be expected to come to an end. One certainly hopes so. He is one man and has to win over Nokia's diehards who have steered Nokia's design. Clearly [I can't get over how dire the N97 was] they need a kick up the botty.