FOSS does not mean Free and Open marketing... Also... This idea, this concept of a (mostly) FOSS mobile computer married to a telephone is so dang unique. It is not a "smart phone" so much as it is a plain old phone with an attached computer that can be made smart and is limited only by the users imagination and not by what a carrier or manufacturer thinks should be its limits. What is also unique is the openness of the development process . I'm sure it is very new to Nokia as well... I mean to me it appears that some of our own community were involved in alpha testing and a traditional beta program didn't really begin until the 300 or so Maemo Summit devices were released. It has all been pretty transparent. The "OMFG I'm about to loose my mind" kinds of posts may be new to this community but not in any of the cell phone forums. Instead of this more open process, a US carrier would announce a time and date that sales for the new model would begin to their employees. The employee's would let it out or marketing would "leak" it to the forums and the same sort of "pass the time" threads would pop up prior to the release. What I'm intrigued by (Knowing that we have been privy to so much more pre-release performance data than any other cell phone in the past.) is the amount of "If the N900 doesn't have 'X', it's a deal breaker" or, "I can't believe Nokia will ship a phone that can't do this" posts in addition to the "When is it going to ship" posts... Sometimes both types of posts were made by the same people.