I just arrived home from the Nokia N900 Meetup in Helsinki Flagship store.

Several Maemo Team members confirmed that the logistics dept. has announced that the N900 will be on sale starting Mid-November. No explanation what happened to "end of October".

I have no doubt this is the case, since these people (some of them on the promo videos) look me straight in the eye and say: "trust me, its mid-November", in Finnish.