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I appreciate that your post was predominantly aimed at Nokia's WP strategy. But the N9 device is testiment to Nokia's ability to produce quality devices.

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i have seen user reviews for N9. it seems fantastic, not only software wise, but also hardware wise. So you are right. but it could be considered a top model or luxury phone I suppose and far superior in build to the Lumia and its price focus.

N900 is/was also extremely expensive over spec phone. almost a technology demonstration with no profit in mind. its like the developers could do anything they wanted and went mad and produced the very best possible product. same story for N9..

N9 is not for me though, I would rather have the N950. drewl.

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There's no difference in build quality between the N9 and the Lumia 800. As for simplistic software, the N9 is as simplistic as it gets. Nokia did the exact same as Apple and omitted basic features that have been present in other devices for over a decade.

“I know we have out simplified the iPhone.”

Marko Ahtisaari

Today I received an N810. It cost me £41, yet I would take it over the N9 any day of the week.

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It's not and has not been in a long time. And it was finns who brought Nokia down, lets not forget that. Elop just finished off the little that was left.

Closing down the factories in Europe was really the logical step. Nokia chose the path of being a OEM and all OEM stuff is done by 15 year old Asian peasant girls. It also pretty much finalised Nokia's tranformation. Pen pushers doing Excel calculations in Espoo and former T-shirt designers making pretty shells for generic MS products in London. Thats the new Nokia. Just the logo and nothing more.

No need to feel any sort of emotional attachment anymore, altough I doubt that the remaining few Nokia fanbois really care. The ones that still have the faith are so hardcore that nothing will stop their logo-worshipping.

Also no need to to cry for finns. Nokia has dropped to around 1% of GDP and continues to go down. Its cold, soil is barren, climate hostile, no empires and never will be, few in numbers, but we have always survived against the odds and always will. Hopefully Elop will ship the HQ somewhere else so that I can get better view of Bay of Helsinki on my commute when I go past Keilaniemi. There are some lovely little island behind the building

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you are right. I would never swap my N900 for n9. Nokia has copied the ideas of Iphone and Android but made it better and more free. This is good.

I would take N950 anyday and put cordia on it.