Oh come on. (warning, rant/vent)

I tried to keep a positive look on things, thinking it lacks keyboard, no transmitter, no this no that. For me, it's Maemo because I like having what basically is a desktop OS on my phone. And given the chance, it's be N900 again.

But really, 3D UI? Really? It's nice giving people hope that some day they could run OpenWhatever from a volunteer, and quite another to actually think one gets whatever one sees.

I've had a Nokia all my life, back when the 8110 "banana" was the peak of human ingenuity (FYI, 1996). Since then, Nokia has done nothing better than to launch a phone, then ignore it. While raking in my (thousands by now) cash.

None of my phones ever saw more than one flash upgrade, to fix gaping holes. By then those people were already working on the next phone that had THAT, but lacked THIS, making me wish I could just smash two together.

By the time the cycle ends and the next nice phone comes out, years passed and nothing was fixed back. My N80 still has a blinking cursor on screen when making a call. It still has the blasted search contacts bug in which people named with initials are never found in searches again. It's been there in 7650 and it's there in N95.

I'd like to see your expression when you see "data restore failed" on PC suite comes up and you have no contacts, messages or anniversaries.

I don't see these people writing stuff for me. If they ever do, it's to regain a head on the market and it'll be on the next hardware.

Dream on.

6 months after launch, it's "Wait for it"
12 months, "you need to give it time to grow"
24 months, phone gets listed as "legacy" development stopped. Maybe someone will tag it as "unless major bugs are found" to make you feel better because they decide what's major. Has YOUR previous phone received an update two years after? None of mine have.

In the mean time, I've learned to live with it and keep forking money over on the next flagship. But just for once, could they stick with one, like, for a while?

Just point to a device and say "we'll support this one, actively, with a team that actually comes to work in the morning, for the next 2 years". I'll buy that tomorrow.

My last hope is with the community, frankly, I've got real hope. Frankly, I'm thinking I'll be using third party everything someday. My bet is someone will put together a phone app before Nokia fixes it up real nice.

Maybe I'm wrong. We'll see what the next firmware will bring. Boy do I hope I'm wrong.