Hmmm. May I draw your attention to N900 bugs

I am encouraged that most of the issues reported are for apps/clients and not with the underlying platform, drivers and services. (exception to that is Mail For Exchange support which should have worked 100% right out of the box in my opinion) The beauty of Maemo is that Apps/clients can be replaced by other products developed by the community, so issues with them are not as important in my mind than with the underlying platform.

I suppose reading the feedback on this forum I had expected a lot more "Wow!!"s and am surprised with the number of issues which have been reported. Seems there is just a lack of final polish as I'm sure that Nokia was under alot of pressure to get this out the door. Nothing that can't be fixed by software updates however.

This thread has helped me understand that:
- updates to this device are a lot easier to manage than other devices. (i.e. it requires a lot less overhead to do package releases than a whole firmware update)
- the Maemo community is in general more technically savvy than the average platform which will supplement the effort by Nokia to resolve these issues.
- Maemo is open and allows the community to develop alternatives to the stock set of applications provided by Nokia.
- we can expect Nokia to provide us with at least a couple of updates to the device and we can influence which items need to be worked on by raising and voting on them.