The lack of advertising scares me. I don't know if it's over-confidence or lack of confidence.

I've actually seen/read more about the Chinese Lenovo oPhone than the N900 - well, not until very recently that is. But I'd love to see this "pimped" just right.

I've seen mention of Oprah; she didn't fare too well with the Pontiac G6. In fact, it darn near emasculated that product. And we all know what happened to Pontiac anyway - dead brand now.

The viral vids are cool, but they seem to hit a core target audience that's already connected and thus the N900 isn't that much of a mystery to them. And the earlier commentary about that Maemo 5 isn't prepped to be fully mainstream and Maemo 6 is... it makes me wonder why buy this iteration and just wait for the next, more mainstream version.

In fact, why would anybody buy into this iteration if that's the case?

The whole early adopter stuff in this economy isn't always going to equal success. The N900 has a lot of the right things in place, I'd just love to see its direction a bit more concrete so close to a possible release - mid-October still, right?

Hurry it up Nokia. I want to see what you have planned.