Rushmore, I agree that there are a lot of things in this phone that people are surprised to not see, including portrait SMS.

On the other hand, back at when we speculated if it'd be a phone or not, I for one thought that Maemo 4 didn't bode well for a phone OS. With no phone functionality, no PIM, no anything that might make it an overlapping product with existing Nokia phones. I think for a "first phone", they did okay. There were lots of phone centric things that had to be designed from scratch. Which they do not have to do with Symbian phones.

So, I believe there are a lot of unrealistic expectations plus I am surprised they marketed it like they did - a "superphone". It was bound to create discontent. This is, for all purposes, a product directly comparable with the "Google Developer Phone"... In my opinion. You didn't see many end users running around with the first Android phone, and that was probably a wise marketing decision until they had it more ready for mass market.

Nokia jumped into it with the N900.