I am not going to defend Nokia's inability to provide 770's in sufficient quantity to meet the demand and I'm not going to say that Jeremy Allison's assertions are misplaced.

I do want to say, however, that we should not let our hopes and plans for the 770 be dissuaded by the fact that there are far too few 770's available now and for the next several weeks. We simply must be patient and stay focused on the immediate future when the 770 will be readily available.

We must accept the situation without adding negativity to our individual hopes for the 770 or to the ITT forums. We must make the most of the fact that the few of us who do have 770's are providing essential feedback to each other, to the rest of us and to Nokia. I'm confident that Nokia is doing all that it can to make the 770 readily available ASAP and that the 770 will be widely available in a relatively short period of time, making the frustrations of shortages now will be a minor historical footnote. Let's use the time until this happens to do just one thing - to better prepare for what it will be like when the 770 is widely available.

Good things are worth waiting for and getting negative about anything because it doesn't happen exactly as we'd like it to is only going to serve to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Let's all keep a professional perspective and earn Nokia's respect by giving them the opportunity they deserve to solve the availability problem.