If I never hear this type of comment again, it will be too soon. In no way shape or form has Nokia tried to restrict the N900 to early adopters or tried to explain its limitations to shoppers. The fact that a few of us had heard of "step 4 of 5" doesn't mean that Nokia mentioned it to shoppers.

If you go to NokiaUSA, the N900 is the first phone mentioned with its own banner at the top of the page. If you try find products, phones, it's the third phone listed. If you go to the N900 page, there is nothing to indicate that the N900 is not intended for the mainstream phone users.

An early adopter phone is one you don't hear about, like the Android Dev Phone 1 which you have to register for in order to get (http://developer.android.com/guide/d...ng/device.html). It's made by HTC but when you list phones on their web site it doesn't show up.