Whats interesting here is that people have no patience and they somehow think that nokia do it any differently than any other company.

iphone OS 4.0 has been announced as summer this year and the ipad will not get the OS until fall... Now that really sucks and "summer" is a fairly broad range for a release date! Way to pin that down apple... I dont want an update which will brick my phone, Nok are going to test the crap out of it as they dont want people mailing in bricked devices for repair because of a fault they released...

Now Nokia have already released 3 updates for the N900 since I got mine in early December - going so far as 2 in one week! That already beats most other handset makers hands down - apple took a year I think before the 1st OS update! Sure the device may have some (key) missing features but overall it works great so I dont mind waiting a little longer!

I want the update as much as everyone else here but mind-numbing long (1000+) speculative threads really add zero value to the discussion at all, especially with all the finger pointing at Nokia...

The one thing I wish Nok would do with firmware is separate the apps from the core (hardware/kernel) firmware and then release updates independently instead of large 100-200MB updated. Google has already talked about doing just this to avoid the fragmentation of android.

Another huge win for Nokia on this platform I think would be to open up the source for these apps too (email, conversations etc...) as there are a lot of great developers writing some really good apps in extras and extras-testing right now!