Is that even an option? Or are you illustrating the lack of support contracts and options? I, for one, wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee if I were to rely on this product for a long time and wanted major upgrades to be available... but it's not like we can fall on a competitor to do this for us for a fee like Red Hat or Canonical. Can we? Does anybody know whether they can be supported by the community in some way to help develop support for older Nokia tablets and/or to improve Nokia's current N900 phone? I expect that many of these Linux companies are much more experienced at writing good, solid code than Nokia has been so far. Just curious to know whether it's even an option to donate to pay for someone to write open-source code for these devices, given some of the closed-source and other legal roadblocks at the Nokia or hardware end.

And for a long time we were often met with 'fixed in fremantle' or WONFIXes for even some of the most mundane, easiest things to fix. This does not instill confidence, no. I've recommended against the Nokia tablets and N900 for all the people I know who wanted portable awesomeness to do actual work. I can't, in good conscience. I hope I can be swayed someday but my experiences from the N800 were that I love the hardware but dreaded the company and it's virtually non-existent communications and support.

Oh well.