I just do not know why we have to speculate about the release date...
There are some important Nokia employees on this forum who could answer our questions.

Again, I do not know why Nokia is not more open here. Give us something. There are all these conflicting dates, the "selected markets" are unclear and what is holding up the release anyway...

At least give us the reason. Is it really the software? The pre-release firmware seems to be fine. Yes there are rough edges, but if you going to wait to iron all those out we won't see the phone before 2012.

So there must be some grave show stoppers, but how come they are not in the pre-release phones, or are they?

I beg you Nokia, qgil I am looking at you, talk to us. You say openness, but you don't follow through. Openness does not only apply when it is convenient.

Some of us pre-ordered the N900 weeks ago, on the promise of openness alone. The hardware and software may be open, Nokia clearly is not.

Again, we are not asking for much. You cannot name a specific date, fine. But nothing?

Most, if not all of us here, know the N900 is the 'in-between' phone, the big tease of what Harmattan will bring. We are mostly already 'fanboys', we are the multipliers.


!!! Disclaimer !!!
This is not a thread about the actual release date. This is about openness and communication.
So please no shipping rumors.
!!! End Disclaimer !!!


Having said all of this, I will wait, patiently. I will appreciate the work that everybody at Nokia, again you qgil, is doing. I will love my N900 from the distance. I will continue to read the shipping threads. I will always hope it ships tomorrow. I will check my Amazon account twice a day. I will be thankfull to everybody here.