I waited up for OPK's and Anssi's speech but I soon realized the tone was going to be S60 based. Nokia higher ups still seem to not be too happy about the thought of ditching Symbian or being told to ditch Symbian by the mainstream press so they are focusing on how much they are changing it. This is fine but as they are announcing software upgrades to all their S60 v5 phones, they talk about the 5800 and how much they improved on it by replacing it with a new device!! This is after touting how many devices they have sold etc etc, they were saying if you want an improved experience buy a new device! N810-N900 I can understand but 5800 - X6 is not right however you cut it. I dare say our buddies in cupertino would probably not do that.

Instead as GA said earlier they could talk about how much maemo/linux/foss community means to development of their biggest 'current' open platform and contrast that against EVERY SINGLE OTHER major device manufacturer. They could talk about how their hardware from top to bottom is still light years ahead of everyone else etc.

I also don't like how the whole step 4 thing went down, it could have been said in the context of 'look at this amazing device its crazy how much better it is than EVERY OTHER DEVICE out right now' and then talked about how things were only going to get better as development continues on the platform. Instead of essentially telling the mainstream to wait till step 5. I thought that was strange.

Anyway I'm still first in line for the N900 when it officially comes over here but I wasn't extremely happy with the keynotes.