Agreed. But I would argue that there is masses of potential in the N810 in particular, and I feel very strongly that there could and should have been a step 4.5 which was basically Femantle without the fancy Ui, and Phone apps.

I think that all the updated and new apps which shipped with the N900 such as the PIM, media player, photo tagger etc could have been easily backported to the N8x0s. Yes I do know about Mer and Mer^2, but it's a big ask getting the community to push something out on their own.

I'm also slowly moving away from the N8x0s. I have recently swapped my Nokia 6220c symbian 3rd edition for a very cheap Nokia 5230 3.2 touch screen phone, which has now become my device of choice for listening to music/podcasts due to the fact that the phone works with the excellent AD-54 remote headset, and twitter/facebook with Gravity, and satnav with the free Ovi Maps with Navigation which has moved on so far from Wayfinder.

Next device is not until the autumn at the earliest, and may not be an N900 as originally planned, but a symbian or Android device.