I've been wondering this for a while. He really insists he has up-to-date software loaded and access to updates. How do you and others know he really doesn't when he hasn't disclosed what version he's running? Now I don't know why anyone won't tell him what the latest version is so he can compare with his own, and stop claiming he has the latest if he doesn't? Obviously he at least genuinely believes it's up-to-date because I don't see any reason why he would lie about it.

And if we talk about the first-look preview article, while I don't think it was not fair to release it so early, he did clearly say it's not based on the final software.

I read the Maemo 5 review(translated from Russian to English so not as accurate as I would've liked) and while it mentioned the crashing, it wasn't the focus. The downsides he mentioned were also nothing new, they have come up on this forum too(the lack of portrait mode, MMS etc.) and I found the overall tone positive.