This just goes to show that if Nokia planned on just making the techs happy, they would have already released the N900. Nokia wants other consumers to be happy too, so they are trying to make the N900 as consumer friendly before release.

Perhaps they had full intentions of releasing earlier, but got the hint that more than techs are ordering t his device. I think the N900 has become more popular across many consumer types than they thought, so they are smoothing things out before shipping.

Almost three weeks left in November, so I think the date will be later in the month so they have as much chance as possible to clean them there bugs and UI issues.

If the N900 ships with more portrait function, that will answer this for us.