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Originally Posted by matthewcc View Post
This is BS. you cannot market the phone as the coolest, most revolutionary thing your co. has come up with in a decade and say "yea.... but" You do not put up billboard adverts and center events around a not ready for showtime device.

It is black or white. 4 of 5 is not a good statement, Nokia had to release something, so they put together a good piece of hardware and put what they had for software on it. The device is great, the software is in progress, they were honest about that - but when they saw the interest they should have shifted gears, and i believe they are/will.

The consumer sentiment is making the n900 a success beyond what they may have expected. They knew the volume of pre-orders anc could easily compare that to other first run devices they have sold (5800xm) to be able to understand total demand over time.
Nokia are not stupid people. They know they need to deliver. It is a consumer device even if YOU do not want it to be.
Maybe Nokia should have shifted gears but they didn't/couldn't. I don't know why you are expecting the N900 to be something it wasn't announced to be and clearly isn't. It is one thing to hope and want something and completely another to be annoyed when things turn out the way they were told to turn out.

Hence I continue to discourage consumer smartphone clientele from getting this phone. Clearly it is not for them and Nokia has been open about that. I have no problem with saying this is Nokia's failure to be late, but N900 is what it was announced to be. Just because some people go crazy over it does not change that no matter how much you repeat it. It is a device available to consumers just like a Linux boxset but that does not make it a consumer smartphone. It is not a smartphone in the traditional sense and does not have all such features.

I do not see how you could call that BS. It is completely another matter to say that Nokia should have a Maemo consumer smartphone by now. They don't and one can certainly crtique that. But N900 is what was announced.

Of course both of us share the hope that N900 will gain more features in the future, but to me that is bonus. Bugs of course need to be fixed as soon as possbile.
 

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