I know it's s60v5, I'm just making a comparison. S60v5 was the new platform a year ago and 5800 was the first phone. Then the 5530 came out with the same OS and the features everybody wanted software-wise in a compromised hardware (and price). Features that never made it to the 5800.
The new platform is now maemo and the N900 is the first phone to feature it. Imagine that a crippled $300 N890 comes out Q4 2010 without say GPS and OpenGL but boasting all the killer software features everybody's screaming about on this forum (portrait mode, mms and so forth) and at the same time the N900 users -the guys that fueled all that development- are left out in the cold.