See, this is where we disagree, your so-called "device generation transition" actually is a step back according to me, N900 does circles around N9 in terms of usability. Trust me, if there was a replacement for n900 then we'd seen much less "noise" around this transition. But as there is no such device and not all of us are ready to give up on fmtx, ir port, sdcard slot, etc, etc for the sake of having the newer toy, that is why all this noise.