Ah the self professed expert technology blogger, what a wonderful species.
Well if you are so knowledgeable SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you for acting like a luddite that just fell off a turnip truck. If your such an expert on Nokia Messaging why aren't you clarifying and educating your fellow blog posters as opposed to pandering to the confused and helpless.
Your cred in the symbian world means nothing here, you are judged by the quality of your posts. Of course you have revealed much about your personality in your reply, as most egotistical technical "guru's" you forget that software, like life is not static, and you are not comfortable with the notion that you may be wrong or no longer have the current information. So let's take a look at your sophomoric reply.
1) A lesson in software architecture. Regardless if an application is downloaded and installed by the user, or added to the firmware, it is stall an application. Nokia Messaging relies on a Client application to function- even if that application is integrated into another e-mail application. Here is your test (and I'll make it easy since you are a symbian expert). Try to access Nokia Messaging via ProfiMail, I await your reply.
2) Now we come to the embarrassing part. Start laughing- at yourself. As you can see this is a screen shot of Nokia's Messaging page, where you can clearly enter your phone number, select the N900, click next … and since you're such an expert with Nokia Messaging I guess you know what happens next… you get to re-install/reinitialize the client. I'm sorry that Nokia did not hang onto your every word and abandon SMS provisioning, I guess the Mobilist community is being undermined by flat fee, all you an consume mobile plans offered by those evil carriers. Hope this helps, I look forward to more pearls of wisdom from your posts.