Hello all, my n900 arrived yesterday and my first post here.

I like my shiny new n900, but it must be said it is missing a lot from what I'd expect a modern phone to have. In fact, it's missing a lot from what ancient phones had, and budget models too. Other than a brief flirtation with Sony Ericsson, all my handsets have been Nokia. In the drawer beside me I have 4 Nokia handsets reaching back to the 3210, and that was the last Nokia phone I had which didnt have mms. I've only had the phone for a day, but there are a lot of bugs and features missing that you'd expect in 2010 - but there's no point going over that old ground again. Some of them I knew about before I bought it, and some were an unpleasant surprise. My hope is that Nokia will support fixes for these.

I must say, since visiting maemo.org my faith in Nokia has been shaken. It does feel like everything is on hold until the next maemo release, but like one of the nasty kids from Willy Wonka's chocolate factory I want them now. There's a guy called Andre Klapper on here, I suspect in real life I would like him. I'd enjoy sitting down for a pint with him and listening to him talk about all he knows. But right now due to the internet I hate him. Every bug report I read that he has labelled "invalid" or "wont fix" or otherwise 'learn to lump it lol' is like a dagger in my Nokia loving heart. I actually googled his name to see what he looks like, so in my brain I could have a better image of my nemesis. He has one of them little devil beards, a blonde one no less, so now whenever I see him dismissing the next frustrating bug as 'invalid' I'll imagine grabbing those tufts and tugging it off his chin.

I suspect there won't be much improvement now until maemo 6, it's not so far away and all resources will now be focused on it. However I do think we'll get some version of it on our n900. In the meantime we'll have to grit our teeth and bear the frustrating scroll or the glitchy UI, in the hope of better things to come. Or, maybe some bright spark in the community will be able to come up with something in the meantime. But this project needs to be Nokia driven. I see a hungry Google pushing Android, Apple continuing to improve the iPhone, Nokia are still putting all their weight behind Symbian (the same managers plotting Nokia's future direction are probably the same who have to justify the cost of purchasing it ofcourse), and Andre Klapper's mean expression hovering over the future of Maemo, "invalid" stamp in hand, like the mean bank manager from "It's a wonderful life". Where's our George Bailey?

Now Im going to look for posts from that kathy girl who has all them pics of happy bears around the place, to help cheer me up.