N900, N9, N800... They are all "mobile computers".

1_ You can run Python on a terminal and type some code to calculate pi to the 40th decimal case.

2_ It's small.

Ergo, it's mobile computer.

Heck, you can even run LOGO or Prolog. Limitless potential. Can't wait to play with that baby now that a decent SDK is available, with easy cross-compiling...

As for "desktop" thing... Specially "Linux Desktop". Well, as far as I know the prophetical "year of Linux in the Desktop" hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know what you guys are talking about.

But I do know you can plug the thing to a TV or monitor, use some BT keyboard, if not USB OTG, and use the thing like a damn desktop. But that's actually old news, and you can do that even on Symbian. So what's wrong here? is it another of those things Nokia brought "too early" to the market?

Tough of the week: The year of Linux on the desktop hasn't arrived yet... But Nokia though it has, and have been releasing Maemo phones / tablets "too early" for the last 5 years?

Now for some on-topic stuff. N9 has appeared in the Brazilian Nokia site, and also in the Czech site and the middle-eastern-Africa site. And this is clearly, very officially, not some loose source code like in the Indian website (where it's still not showing). And none of these show up in the magical combo box at nokia.com/n9. Based on this movement, could we perhaps start to feel like there may be NO LIMITS to where N9 may be released, and maybe even get some hope the release might not be _too_ far away?...

BTW, I have been searching for official sources that it will happen only in September, at minimum. Does anybody have a link?... Is a pre-September N9 release officially (or semi-officially) ruled out?