I've been to shoot couple of historic cars, shame I was stuck with 5 of them in one place and not really a lot of time... Would like to take them out to some other locations
WOW you have some beautiful scenery there, I've been in Canada twice and I always wanted to visit the US, too bad you have to give up all your privacy to go there this days ...
The Lumia 800 is absolutely gorgeous (well, the N9 is gorgeous and the Lumia 800 share the same design, so... I still think this design works better without the WP buttons, though).
You should have considered getting an N9, though (same hardware, camera, but so much more versatile OS).
You're wrong, N9 runs on MeeGo. And Symbian is only continued on Asha series phones and Belle users (as for Nokia 500, 700, 701 or 808 Clearback) should (?) receive updates to improve performance.
I have a Lumia myself (710), and I'm not sure which apps are missing (compared to iOS or Android). Instagram can be perfectly changed with Fhotoroom, its the very same Viber (just on beta, calls aren't available yet), its pretty much no difference.
It is as restricted and closed as iOS, but if you developer-unlock you get much more possibilities.