I don't mean to answer for zehjotkah but from what I gather from these conversations in here he had his hands on qwerty n9(50) way before SF.
Haven't read the last 30 or so pages. But yes, I can now confirm this as well. Everything about the consumer device was new to me, until some minutes ago. All I knew was about the developer device. There'll be the developer device, which will be distibuted to.. well.. developers^^ For example at the MeeGo Conference (if they didn't changed plans in the last 48 hours). It's not thrown away money, because it was already produced some time ago and since then it's in Nokias warehouse. The teaser is neither thrown away money, because the device has to be presented to the community in any way. It wasn't sold (selling it commercially was the initial plan) because someone decided the OS wasn't ready. That is (among others) also the reason why some high Nokia employees quit their jobs some time ago. (Best regards, if you're reading this, still miss you) The consumer device won't get a keyboard. It will have better hardware (developer: 1Ghz A8 (but newer production process than the N900, therefore lower battery consumption and higher performance) consumer: Dual Core ST Ericsson). That doesn't mean that the developer device does have bad hardware. I think it's a really amazing and well built device. edit: btw. I'm in San Francisco atm. Sorry in advanced, probably I can't comment here as much as I'd like to.