I hope this item is successful as a phone -- and then that success is leveraged to strengthen the maemo/ IT/ open source concept to corporate sales and whatever other inside resistance those ideas have been meeting, (if any), because frankly, seeing this, I think the amazing sales of the iphone have perhaps been influential and pulled the idea away from where the 770 and N8x0 were headed.

As specs and concepts have been released recently, I have to admit my N800 has been looking better and better every day...



This is key for me, personally. I want maemo, Nokia and the entire concept around open source ITs to succeed but I don't see how this is an improvement over what I currently use the N800 for, (of course it will "perform" better, but it won't add many more useful functions/ usability over my N800).

A smaller screen is a big disappointment to me which a TV and usb vga out could mitigate some, but what I really want seems closer to the N800 I already have.

I would be annoyed to buy what I think is the highest end model, only to find out that it's been obsoleted (to me personally) by a new model more suited to current use, which could very easily happen if what I see in RX-51/N900 specs is true.


Joe

Edit: on the plus side, I no longer have a lust for a new device.