In essence, yes. Satisfy bloggers/journalists/tech media and gain a much broader mass market appeal.It's not just engadget, that was just an example at the top of my head because they're very anti Nokia (though at times, Nokia are indefensible e.g. state of S60V5)

The tick-box concept (capacitive, tick!) is indeed, just to shut people up, overcome that Nokia prejudice, perhaps even build some excitement and hype and finally give the actual user experience of the whole device a try.

I appreciate that there are many here who would just like Nokia to make Maemo device for their own use. That's totally fine.

For me, I'm a complete Nokia "geek/fanboy" and want to see Nokia producing devices that set new standards and have high desirability and mass appeal.

I'm putting my attention to this MaemoPhone right now as I don't really see what's going to be happening with Symbian^4. All SF's current info is very vague.

I hope SF and Nokia will positively surprise us, otherwise, Maemo could be the only hope of Nokia and high end devices. If that's so, there needs to be more focus on what's right for mass market.