Here's the problem with "getting it in my hands"... I won't buy it based on what I've seen/read so far, I very unlikely to ever see one (thus far, I still haven't even touched an N900 because nobody owns one and you can't find them anywhere anyway, much less the new N9), and there is NO way for me to be able to hold one "in my hands" if there is no Nokia presence in stores. The latter point being one of my biggest criticisms about the degradation of their brand name--hence the negativity to that point. The reviews I've read all sound glowy but yet depressing. None of the things they glow about are particularly interesting to me (or to most of the people I've talked to offline either). I remember everyone here in reality-land being far more impressed with the 770 and the N8x0's than with the N9, although we began to lose a LOT of faith once we owned them and began to deal with the company and realized we weren't getting the awesome whiz-bang device we thought we'd bought and began to get treated badly by the company. So yep--you're going to see a lot of that coming from me until I can see some positive change. I'm just telling it as I see it... and I can't "hold it in my hands" to see it any better and I'm not wasting any more of my own money on Nokia promises, like I did before.

As for finding out more about it and contributing... Maybe it's time you took some of your own advice and stopped trying to criticize me for pointing things out and trying to get a good reason to even consider it. Give me a reason to like it. How about you contribute by asking more questions and pointing out what you like and don't like, and stop picking on me for trying to probe for COMPETENT and COMPELLING features from what this device is supposed to be. So far, it doesn't impress and it doesn't compete very well with other devices out there--even compared to its "predecessor" the N900, except for maybe the AMOLED screen, and I'm seeing fewer reasons to like it. Especially as someone that jumped onboard to the "real Linux experience" I bought into some time ago when I first jumped into this roller coaster. Indeed, though, I suppose it is a free world.