My recollection was that it was leaked before MWC (which was September), i.e. sometime in August, not just before Maemo Summit (which was October 2009). http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=290
They gave N900 about 20 second Air time at Nokia World the week after they just shoved its official announcement on Nokia Conversations, they really was not interested in marketing it at all, they gave all stream time to N97 Mini. http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld09...-solutions.htm