Textrat, although I haven't always agreed on the verbiage you chose in some of your posts, I do applaud your efforts to advocate. However, it is not unimaginable Nokia's stance on your participation as such. In fact I would have been surprised if a major corporation acted any differently.

After spending millions of dollars crafting and promoting the message they want to get across, they usually want as much control over it as possible.

Now here is the rub for N800 users and perhaps qgil can provide some insight...

What is Nokia's N800 message?

Who is the pro-typical user or targeted market?

How many units have been produced?

What were the projections?

Did the N770 meet it's sales forecasts?

What features and benefits were added to the N800 that would improve it's prospects of attaining its sales goals?


Published information from Nokia that answers these questions would go a long way toward quelling the speculation and rumors found in these and other forums. For those of us whose first Nokia purchase was the N800 these answers would relieve the anxiety over wondering if Nokia even had a plan for its future in the first place. I mean, what does Nokia tell its stockholders?

As far as bugzilla goes. It, itself has a dang bug in its web site security certificate. I only found this out after realizing the links I saved to the bug I did report were no longer valid. Bugzilla moved to a new address and left no redirects. (Major time suckage BTW, and I wonder how many don't bother using bugzilla because of this.)

And finally, an example of how little or no information can lead to speculation...

The bug I reported in February was closed in March with this comment,
Since this was not addressed in the latest release (4.2007.26-8), should I assume that;

a. They just forgot.
b. There is an additional future release that will address this.
or
c. They changed their minds.

What ever the case, lack of information leads to negative speculation.