Well, you could both be right... In benny's timeline, the "hiccup" could have happened earlier than that, after the N810 announcement and its coming to market, during the period when the next model should have been maturing -- then the "good" side won, and the scramble we saw after spring 2008 was to catch up and compensate for the missed milestone ?

Not that it matters IMHO -- apart for the fun of speculation : as we stand now, the Fremantle series of devices had better be a runaway success, or it's not just a lull we'll be experiencing...