Some people act as if they've never been disappointed with a purchase in their consumer lives. Some people react totally differently than others.

And since it's around a device that some of you have decided to loathe or love; the reactions seem to forget that you've either been totally happy or totally disappointed around a purchase. Buyer's remorse is real... and the whole thing about "do research" - there's a whole lot of points not covered.

For instance, pertaining provisioning... use Google. You'll find threads that are here... and not much more. Pertaining GPS lock speed... you'll find threads that are here and at Nokia discussions; but not in the documentation or sales part.

Would a company with a product boast about the bad things? Of course not. But hell, some of this "research" that people are pointing to just does not exist. That's not a justification for the tireless posting ad nauseum about the same thing(s) over and over; but there is no place for some of this information online.

Not all customers call the manufacturer - you'll get the same stuff as the website. Or some poorly written script - I'm an iPhone owner, I got worked up because they couldn't answer one simple question. It took a Google search, one HELLUVA disgruntled dude on their own forums for me to find an answer. Not in their documents, not via their phone support, not via their sales spiel.

Anyway, from my point of view, both sides - the people that are "whining" and the people that are "supporting" - are acting rather puerile.

Flame on, I don't care. Just starting to really dislike this place due to the "I hate it" and the inevitable "I hate you" responses to the people that are actually unhappy about missing features that they "might" expect to have in a phone in 2010 or if their USB port falls out or if they don't want to hack their phone. Pertaining the USB port, Quim made one statement saying it was addressed... since then 30+ pages of people stating otherwise. If I were to trust that one Nokia post - of which ZERO have come after that - then I'd be pissed. And that's with research.

Research helps... it's not as solid as you folks sometimes point it out to be.

There... I feel a whole lot better.

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