if yall really, REALLY..... REALLY want to know when it is going to ship, there are a couple things you could ACTIVELY do.

1. Social engineering:
get numbers, and call the people in the know... call nokia and try to worm information out of someone, saying you are someone else. Or call the factory, or wherever. This could also be done more deviously, by getting contact info for the factory, and then contacting to factory to try and get them to start shipping.

2. Petition:
This is a community device, Nokia NEEDS developers to help create apps for this device. Nokia should reciprocate, and be open with the community about it. Get enough signatures of people saying they will never buy nokia or help with maemo or related software, something will be done.

But complaining in this thread will definately not influence them in any way. I bet 1000 people leaving the high ups at Nokia messages could do some influencing too.

With so many different dates from different places, and the last REAL word from anyone that SHOULD know, was reported at the n900 official meetups. That word was that it might not be out till AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. Honestly this all seems like stringing people along, tell different places different dates, each a little further out.... strech it all out as much as possible.