Hi Qgil....I'm reading the thread right now...so I hope this is not already post by someone else...but I would like to say something now.

Ok...Nokia has told that N900 was more a "Mobile computer" than a phone....but Nokia cannot sell a device for 599€ with all the limitations that N900 has and pretend that many people doesn't complain about these !
I bought the N900 in november 09 but I couldn't still use it as my primary phone because of bugs and problems with Mail For Exchange /Calendar.
I use the smarthphone mainly for business and need to sync the mails, contacts, calendar and tasks with our company Exchange 2003 SP2 server.
This is still not possible because of several small bugs (like this one of recurring events: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7971 )

I think that for an "mobile computer" these features are crucial and I would have expected as top class:
- email
- standard business apps (like Office viewer and edit SW)
- good PIM functions and compatibility with open standard and de-facto std (like Outlook, Exchange, etc)
- decent navigator SW
and I could go on in many aspects...

Instead these points are the weakest in N900/Maemo 5! Apart from excellent internet browsing all the other aspects are poor implemented or there are present only the basic features.
Modest is really...."modest" email client ! Calendar apps is the most basic I ever seen (quite similar to a very old symbian under 100 € phone) etc etc.

The absurd is that we have better multimedia features (decent camera with flash, very good movie playback etc) than business ones !

I really apreciate some of Nokia guys (like Vitaly) and you that are present and usually reply to us in this forums, but I need also reasonable answer from Nokia in terms of support and visible action.

I understand that to re-write everything (OVi Maps, the phone app etc) for Linux require some time but then Nokia should have not
sell this device as a top class device of 599€ but give it for at least less than half that price and clearly state that is a "beta" device.
Nothing of this is made clear in these pages:
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products...specifications
(I put the Uk ones...not the italian ones just to be english text).
No specification that MFE didn't work with Exchange 2003 (only after PR 1.1 and not completely), that Ovi Maps were only basic and not at thee same level of symbian etc etc.

I REALLY hope that PR 1.2 will address to some of these big problems and let me start using the N900 as a primary work phone and not only as a very expensive useless hobby device.

Moreover I just let you know that many Italian users I know have already sold their N900 due to all these delays in implementing such basic features and most important because Nokia is not showing real committment to support this platform, with all of this FUD and no clear path with Meego/Maemo 6 evolution.

Perhaps I should make like them, sell N900 buy an Android or Iphone device that has thousand od apps NOW and are feature complete NOW and then , after a year or so eventually come back.
But I would like not to loose many Euros since I just bought the N900 few month ago and I love the open-source attitude and the HW device is really nice !

But the world is running everyday faster and the competion is fierce...Please give us some clear arguments to keep me on Maemo platform and N900 device.

Greets from Italy,
SkyEagle