See my earlier comment, far more devices ship which use Symbian than use Linux. I'm not sure where the iPhone lies in all of this.

To re-iterate my understanding, the driver works but is buggy, Nokia won't release a buggy driver (it will crash, people will complain, they will have to support it and will also get bad publicity for releasing a crap bit of software).

To make the driver less buggy, would require paying ImgTech to re-write it (or possibly paying them quite a bit of money to obtain the source under NDA so Nokia can do it, but I'm not sure if this would be allowed). This is where the money thing comes in, not in the per unit licensing cost, afaiu.

And finally, I feel that Nokia probably see the N8x0 as old technology now, Nokia are presumably looking to the next generation to make changes, and the old stuff is just in a holding pattern.

Still no reason we couldn't get some beta software though, if we could persuade Nokia that is (and there's not some cost involved - we would be a small group, or some licensing issue).