Nokia is used to competing with itself. Every single phone from Nokia is a compromise of adding/not adding features so that the particular model does not compete too much with another model. When you rule the world, this is all fine, but the world has changed, Nokia has not. They are still competing with themselves (WP vs MeeGo, N8 vs E7 vs E6 vs C7) when thy should compete with Samsung, Apple, LG, ZTE, Huawei, SE, HTC and so on. It is amazing really, even now they still don't get it, they simply refuse to accept that they have to change attitude and product release philosophy.

Having said that, the E6 is superb, believe me. nfc is a white elephant at least until 2015-2016. Today it can be used to turn on bt load speakers - so what. EDoF is not that bad, the general picture quality is excellent, but macro suffers, but it's still doable. The screen is excellent, the keyboard is the best there is and so on. It is packed with functionality. There is nothing out there that can match the overall usability except the N950, but that one is not available as we all know. Maybe this shows the sad state of phones right now, rather than the excellence of the E6, but that doesn't really matter.

If you can live without a Linux kernel, the E6 is definitely a step up from the N900.

On a side note, I've had enough of the snailish MeeGo for now. I have to try the community SS or whatever it's called just to see if that is equally overhyped.