While I agree with you on all other points.

No Nokia is not selling the phone that way. Here in the UK they are selling the divice via operators as a phone. They sure as hell are not making a point of limiting this assumption.

It looks like a phone is sold from phone shops and sold as an NSeries on their website with little indication that you should not expect a phone when you buy it.

That said it being sold as a phone in no way makes it require all these features that people claim. Some peoples idea of its minimum expectaion simply come from up their arse.