it's about the only way i can justify or afford a phone like the n9 or the N900, cos i dont have several hundreds to drop on a phone. Only issue with the n9 was lack of kbd, but i could have lived with that.

I expected this news, and my take on this is that meego on the n9 is knocking the spots of the prototype windows phones and nokia know that people would choose the n9, and that it would be windows phones that proved to be the sham.

it's a bizarre strategy and i would have thought chucking the n9 at as many markets as nokia can and making a few quick quid whilst waiting for the windows phones would have been sensible, spwcially given the reception.