In some ways, it wouldn't surprise me if they had listened to all of the conflicting arguments in our past, and those influenced some of the design decisions.

Not the 3 row keyboard ... that was probably drawn from the N97. Or, at most, misinterpreted from people being enamored with the overall design of the N97 (NOT including the 3 row keyboard) -- people here HAVE advocated a maemo phone based on the N97 (myself included). I just meant overall styling and tilt screen (and I said "put the dpad back on the face!").

But the "it should be a phone" -- lots of people here said it, including me.

And I know I said, within the last 9 months "I don't miss the larger screen [since moving to the G1], 3.5 inches is enough".

There have been many people here who advocated for a more iPhone like finger friendly interface (which can be interpreted to support "no dpad", even though that's not what I meant when I was one of those advocates).

And, there have been people here who have said it needs to be a smaller device.


Factoring in misinterpretations ("liking the N97 means the 3 row keyboard will go over well", and "wanting a finger friendly GUI means we can remove the dpad"), I have actually advocated all of those, at one point or another. So, I don't think the fact that we all seem to hate it means that they didn't listen to the ITT community. Some of it is a matter of interpretation, and some of it is a matter of the fact that, as a community, we don't really all agree on "what the Maemo platform should be".