why does everyone underestimate the value of compatibility? Ok irDA is old and dated but still some recent cheap nokia phones have irDA, and it is the only means to transfer the contacts etc. from them. Recently sb wanted to transfer his data from his 2 year old nokia to the new one. The old had only IR the newer only BT. No way to do it until my N95 came to the rescue. I wouldn't complain if a new phone lacked IR, ok I understand, any additional hardware is expensive adds to size and weight. But once the N900 has the port why can't it be a tranceiver? Also having a feature for developers only is like not having a feature to most of the people. Imagine if you bought a laptop with a webcam but no drivers for it. It will appeal to some users (most of us on this forum) but there are lots of people who own a N900 but do not have either the knowledge, the time, or the will to drill down and search for applications to enable each hidden feature they paid for on their device.