If that is the case, Then its a stupid strategy which has achieved nothing but put nokia in bad press and made them to lose customers. This whole N900 fisaco puts to question nokia's credibility and ability to deliver and puts a question mark on the N900. After the N900 was announced, The Droid, The Droid Eris and HTC HD2 were all announced and all have been released. The Nokia N900 is only been waited for by Nokia's /Maemo strong believers (The very people Nokia is calling Ridiculous ) everyone who just wanted the next iPhone killer has gone for an android device. The Fact that Nokia can.t even come out to give us updates on the status of the phone, or even commit to a release schedule (beside we would release when its ready) tells that something somewhere is not right with the device, and i doubt its a software problem. I pre-ordered the phone in September hoping to have something for before xmass, now the chances of that happening is very slim. As it is we don't even know when this thing is expected to release (This month, Next month, January? ) to be frank I have completely lost confident in Nokia's ability to deliver. And their handling of their core customers leaves much to be desired. I think the iphone and anything built on java sucks, But being taking for granted sucks more