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#512
Originally Posted by kevink View Post
That's it. I'm out. Just called Nokia and cancelled my preorder.

Seriously, all of us have ponied up $550-$650 for a phone sight unseen. We've practically volunteered to be the first round of real-life testers of a new product (how many of us ordering a new half-a-G linux phone aren't technically aware) and we've been rewarded for that with

- being kept in the dark
- when any information *is* offered, it's vague or incorrect
- first "official" announcement is, three days before they've been saying it will ship, that it will be delayed another month.

For god's sake, rumors about the *next* Maemo are out before they release this one. What a crappy job they did with a group of people who were sold on the phone as soon as it was announced.
I am annoyed it has been delayed, but I really think people are seriously overreacting.

Considering there is NOTHING comparable to the N900, anyone who is cancelling because of the delay that are NOT doing it because "I something urgently for work before then", were clearly not very sold the device to begin with.

In fact I wonder if those people cancelling is actually a blessing, less pissing and moaning about "no MMS" or other features we already knew it would not have. I really cannot see any logic to cancelling because its been "delayed a month". I am stuck on an old ancient Samsung with 128x128 pixel screen but I wont be wasting my money getting something else, I will wait for the N900 because its the ONLY device which does what I want.

I already put up with Windows Mobile because it nearly did what I wanted and Android or Symbian were just not designed all that well. Maemo is trying to do something that is well overdue in the mobile market, make an efficient OS that isn't slow as sludge and things like IM integrate into the whole experience instead of being icky addons. Anyone who thinks that is not worth waiting for I question why you wanted the N900 in the first place.