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Originally Posted by shugg View Post
True enough. but calling people dum doesn't help, if this really was a device for the community as you infer then perhaps Nokia should have been a bit more upfront about it's intended audience.

The issue I can see is that no amount of research in the early days revealed this to be the case, Vodafone said nothing of the sort and happily sold it to folk as a smartphone couple this with reviews on TV from those highly knowledgeable chaps on the gadget show and you can see why some would have assumed they were getting phone as opposed to a community developer device.

So hands on research was the only way to really decide if it's for them or not.

If people are buying it now then they deserve what they get as there is plenty of information re the potential pitfalls of this device. Which I guess is why some people post in here.
Not trying to argue but making a small point.

I never recalled the N900 being mentioned as a phone when I was looking at the device. I seem to recall it being mentioned as a Internet Tablet with GSM functionality.

If you look most if not all Nokia's internet tablets were more community driven then Nokia.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.