Honestly, you guys. I have read a bunchload of reviews, most that praised the device and the rest simply not getting it. Not a one of them seemed to have had the phone long enough to to notice the things that will bother an owner over time.

I read all I came over and I come from the 'probably will not get the phone features perfect in the first device' camp with experience from the N810. And I love the device.

But saying things like 'that what happens when you buy something you don't know what is' is just dumb. I have read more about the N900 than I read about the car I just bought. And in no review did I see that the microUSB was non-standard and moody. I read thousands of lines but did not expect how few maemo 4 appliations was/would be any time soon released for Maemo 5. Neither my experience with Linux nor anything I have read had prepared me for such incompatibility. And nowhere did it say that it wasn't possible with custom ring tones per contact. For me, that's like buying a car and finding out you can't open the rear side windows. It's just so basic functionality that you can't be expected to google for it.

The N900 is an excellent device in oh so many ways. As a phone, it is not. And not any reviews I have read has said it was a bad phone. Only that it's not an advanced smart phone. Without stating what that means. So please.

The N900 is being advertised to the mass market as a phone and more. If you hate that people buy it and expect a polished phone, then you should hate the marketing of it. Not the people who believe what they are told.

Stop attacking people for wanting a phone when they buy what they truely have no reason not to believe is a phone. There is no review or ad out there saying 'a mobile computer with some basic phone functionality'. It does say 'a phone. a mobile computer'.

Nokia marketed it too broadly because the N97 got torn asunder all over the web. Nokia made people buy this product. Stop hating people for buying it.

The hostility against disgruntled users hurts the Maemo platform where the goal should be to adjust the platform to conform to the use cases.

'A car can't turn right? Stop blaming Ford! That's what you get for not reading up on what you buy. Go away, we don't want people here who wants to turn any other way than left...'

That's what it feels like to read threads like this.

This coming from someone who knew pretty much what he bought.