@volt:
Even if you are right, and we are just "testing" Maemo. If they really won't announce full Ovi maps functionality soon, there won't be any more testers out there. And don't tell me Nokia wouldn't know this. But you may have noticed that Nokia made a lot of advertisement for the N900 in the last couple of days and weeks. If their strategy was to abandon the N900, this wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Finally, I think (or hope) by now Nokia has realized that the N900 could become a real cult device. Abandoning it would be a bad business decision, and I don't believe people at Nokia are that stupid (buying Navteq was pretty smart after all).

So, hang on, folks. There will be an announcement next week!

And, please, don't post any more of these quotes from other blogs. We know them all, we know they are contradictory - let's wait for what the Nokia officials will say next week.

B.t.w., personally I don't care about the turn-by-turn text-to-speech navigation. The problem I really have is that N900 will only be able to live up to its full potential if it has a strong community. And that community might die out if there won't be any full fledge Ovi-maps application.