I'll remind you that I've answered them or pointed them out elsewhere before. Also, kudos for asking the good questions that Nokia should be asking its fans/customers/developers/hackers. It's a shame they don't ask questions like these themselves and get it from more than just one curmudgeon like myself, as much as I value my own opinion there are far too many people out there with far more money and interest in purchasing a new device.

1) Yes, of course--I pointed out that I am glad they used a really attractive and power-saving AMOLED screen. Debatable is whether it was good or bad to lose the hardware keyboard (I personally prefer NOT to have a keyboard, so that's another point in my court), but a good keyboard MIGHT make it attractive even to me. Debatable again is the capacative screen--but I think I prefer the much more accurate stylus resistive screens with pressure sensitivity and everything else that comes with that, especially as I and others I talk to do sometimes use these portable devices for everything from signatures to artwork. I VERY much dislike the increasingly closed UI/OS over the N900, over the N8x0, etc., I VERY much dislike the move away from a desktop experience--which was one of the biggest differentiators between Nokia's Maemo devices in the past from their competition... this WAS a grown-up's device, not just another ME TOO iPhone competitor. I would have liked a bigger screen but I could give or take that if everything else was better. There you go--take some good and take some bad.

2) I can imagine them being just as happy or happier on any other device doing those same things, too--with OFFICIAL and better supported applications. What's the advantage here?

3) Yes. This would influence me very positively, since I'm not ENTIRELY happy with MeeGo yet but I like its direction greatly--especially if I can swap out all the closed-source with open to suit my own needs and it can suit everyone else with the closed, if they so choose. Maemo/Harmattan has turned into a sour project with this release.

4) Not necessarily--but I think Nokia has damaged their own brand and their customer experience enough to make pure hardware specs far less relevant. Their ecosystem is damaged (i.e. OviStore is ruined, Symbian as an OS is ruined for support, same for Maemo), their hardware is so-so (competition runs the entire gamut from poor and cheap, to expensive and still affordable , to fancy and expensive--and they keep putting out newer and more interesting devices month after month, not one-a-year) and most of their competition are featured in stores where you can physically walk in and immediately walk out with a repaired or replaced device the same day and you get to talk face-to-face and at LEAST walk out with paperwork to show that they are working on the device if you must leave it overnight. The Nokia experience has been, at least here in the US and it seems all across the continent, utterly frustrating and you have to have a LOT of faith in many moving parts (mail delivery, Nokia repair, whether they have parts, whether it ships back okay, etc.). I'm not sure that competing on raw hardware specs alone is enough anymore. Not everybody likes or will like the Samsung G2, but you bet your [adjective] [body part] that they can at least walk back into the store even an hour later, a week later, MONTHS later and hands-on touch, feel and buy something else they CAN like all in the same hour, much less day even if it costs some money to do so (and it usually doesn't).