Actually, that is true to some extent, at least that would put the issue of a media player on the community/3rd party developers. Really the issue is what does Nokia consider a "portable computing device" to entail exactly. The attitude of a lot of people here seems to be that mobile xterm is all anyone would need in a "portable computing device".

The media player isn't the only lackluster app. Email is pretty awful as well. And while that doesn't bother me too much, I wouldn't think of making excuses for how sh**y the email app is. It's subpar, end of story. It makes sense to assume that since Nokia included these applications that "portable computing" would include media playback, email/PIM, web. NOT just a mobile xterm.

I don't need to do a benchmark test because audio skipping/stuttering is obvious. This has improved a lot in PR1.1 and I'm not super concerned about it, but as I said above I'm not going to make bull***t excuses about how the N900 isn't a PMP. I think some of the current issues have more to do with the underlying frameworks and issues with video playback and large media libraries.