As an N900 user that doesn't write code for it I disagree with the above statement that the N900 is not ready.

In 2009-2010 I was able to simulate a full mobile office in terms of access to documents and response time on mail, phone or IM with the N900 as central device.
This from situations and area's unimagined by office bound colleagues or contacts.
I felt the N900 gave me a huge advantage and there for freedom of movement.
Mobile working was a younger concept and I wasn't expected to boast my productivity with it.
It was merely a bonus I gave back to the company I worked for.
Ten years before I was already connected over 9600bps GSM data and a latpop, but for the first time all the office tools were united in a pocktetable device.

As far as I am concerned the N900 was ready because I was ready to exploit the best features of it.
And that feature set was quite complete, and I did not have to worry about abandoned closed parts in the OS and security leaks never to be addressed yet.

In fact the N900 was so useful for me that I'd rather enjoy it in silence than to start promoting it to become the next standard.
I 'd be happy to let other's play with their iPhone 3G and show me their daily downloaded apps.

The sales effort for the N900 was surely lacking as I just stumbled on it by coincidence.

Finding Nokia an arrogant and annoying company that always charged premium for devices that got updated with the next hot feature soon after that purchase I did not really care to throw them money for a top model.
However, a tech article about the N900 caught my attention and I knew this was a mile stone worth consideration.

A small "price" I had to pay for freedom was to find the limited set of useful applications in the repos system and because of the easy access to development stage applications, proceed with caution and knowledge.
A huge price for Microsoft it was to see casual users familiarizing themselves with Linux command prompts, a price which they decided not to pay by messing up Nokia before all this went mainstream.

Ovi has gone south? I really never cared about OVI on N900.

Through years of delivering tiresome support on Windows infrastructure on various cheap and diverse more ore less compatible hardware, I can state that even those widely spread and accepted systems are not ready for prime time for jane and joe averageuser.
Will an app shop change all that? No, they will still be able to run it as under adminstrator and install virusses on the fly when not properly guided and informed.

Why then we assume current mobile devices are ready for prime time in the hands of averageuser?
Because the leak of information out of those are accepted concepts, installed by design?
If we learn not to care about our data lost, destroyed or stolen, what else can possibly go wrong?

Like the Windows PC's with all kinds of peripherals these mobile devices are rather complex and there is nothing wrong with requiring averageurser to have it setup properly by a professional.

N900 was not left unsold because its deemed complexity (which honestly I fail to recon) but rather because they did not want to sell it and build a support infrastructure around it. The excuses was that it concerned only step 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 6, don't remember exactly.
The arrogance of announcing in advance your master-plan finally fired back. To competition, to share holders (why step x out of x when all you have to do is grow and make sure you are never finised?)

The common misconception these days is that mobile devices are (supposed) to be simple. What happens to the healthy analysis and pro/con decision process that got traded for the quick satisfaction of colorful tap and play app store delight?
Recently a company IT manager would try to "let me quickly install my solution of choice app" on my wife's private telephone at the office. When he found out the Samsung Note did not feature the familiar Google App store, it was surprise and end of the attempt.
Small security success: foreign hands can't and shouldn't install redundant software easily, unreflected in five minutes, potentially messing up its stable, functional state and worse, compromising its security.


If all goes well Neo900 step 2, will hook on where N900 dropped it: the embarrassing halt of further support and updates to closed source Fremantle parts.

To help achieve that goal I 'll do my best to try not to stay unlike (the only one in the hood onto Neo900?) and spread the word.

Nothing is impossible and see even my father is being unlike using an unready N900 these days.

Wish this project all the best, looking forward to future updates.