Hello to everyone, first post.

I've followed the forum for a while but given that I'm not really a developer I never considered registering, but the direction taken by this thread is really curious, and I don't think I understand what we are really talking about.
[sorry for the broken english and the long post... I know, bad combination]

I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what parts of Eldar's preview[s] can lack in credibility... or do you refer to his tweets?

'Cause I don't read anything in his previews that's less than plausible...

He criticizes the lack of an universal portrait mode and MMS, and says that such lacks are bad for mass market users... I can believe that...

He says that the Task Manager/Desktop/Main Menu switch is not intuitive, like some UI choices [touch title bar for option/settings]... it's necessary, for user, to "understand/learn" this function... I agree, they are not intuitive, but it's not a deal breaker...

What does is current hardware/software configuration has to do with it? What, a new firmware out there has changed the Maemo5 UI?

He says that if there are many content-heavy web pages open, the browser performance suffers... I tend to believe that, it seems reasonable... or do anyone believe that "final" hardware/software won't have any performance issues if there are multiple flash-loaded web pages open?

That's irrealistic...

He says that the reformatting of web pages when zooming is not at a iphone/safari level... this is confirmed by pratically every video hands-on/preview out there [even nokia's], so I tend to believe that too... this may actually improve with final release, or with future updates... but it's fairly possible that this feature will ship as it is...

He mentions that there is no equalizer in the music player... I don't personally care but, again, is this something you know is "corrected" in more recent/final firmware?

If it's not, who cares what soft/hardware version he has..? The equalizer is still not there, right?

The playlist functions are only basic? Plausible, given Nokia records... again, nothing really so important to require explicit firmware version...

Maps is slow? Plausible... he's backet up by every videos showing maps on the N900, so...

As preview goes, it's not so bad... he doesn't indulge in crashes, bugs et similia... he talks about the features, and the lack of them...

While he spent the majority of both previews lauding the N900 and Maemo5, his few negative points are very plausible... sure, final firmware will be better, but given the imminent launch date final adjustments will be just that... adjustments...

Or do you really think the OS team will "correct" the few things he pointed out? In, what, two weeks?

But of course you're not really talking of his previews...

You're commenting his tweets, where he says that a prototype crashes... and somehow you find this unbelievable, unrealistic, and want to know his hardware/software configuration...

I'm pretty sure even the final retail product will crash... and even more sure that future updates will reduce the number of crashes...

It's expected, it's normal... A user interested in a product like the N900 knows that a prototype is prone to crash... a user who doesn't understand/expect that, will probably not be the ideal target for the N900...

And I don't think anyone is "jealous" of anything, but I really don't get the reason for bashing Eldar...

He leaked a prototype? So what? Are we really so naive to be outraged? He speaks fairly highly of it, how does this damage the product?

PS:

Not really "taking sides", here... I just find that the bashing is really immotivated, and the whole "he won't tell the firmware/hardware" is basically irrilevant, given the nature of the negative aspects he points out...