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Originally Posted by paulkoan View Post
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle-motion.

Seriously, it amazes me how there are *still* people who purchased the n900 without doing any research about it and then moan about how they aren't the target audience.

The set of these people no doubt overlaps strongly the set of people chomping at the bit for PR1.2 as if it will suddenly turn the n900 into the iphone they should have gotten in the first place. It won't. It is just a firmware update. It will contain nothing that dramatically alters the way you use the n900.

To everyone: if you made a bad purchasing decision buying the n900, and wish to blame someone, there is probably a mirror in your bathroom. Confine your rants to there and away from the rest of us who knew what we were getting into and are satisfied with the outcome because we did the five minutes of research necessary.
You have to realise that this phone has been marketed as the next new smart phone in some places, for my example by Carphone Warehouse in the UK. They are the leading retailer of mobile phones here in the UK and having gone in personally a while back pretending to be a layperson, there was never any mention of it being a "Linux users phone" or however you wish to put that.

They certainly highlighted many of the N900's brilliant qualities and strengths to me and fair play, they knew about this stuff and knew it well. What I had said was "I am an N95 user at present and a friend mentioned the N900 would be a perfect upgrade for me". The phone was touted to me as a direct replacement for my N95, even over others like the N97 which would be more familiar and straight forward to a current Symbian user.

It is so highly unfair to say people are just whining because they didn't do research on the product... going in and having a 20 minute conversation about pretty much only the N900, with a trained staff member in a mobile store, is far from unresearched for a lay-user (which I'm obviously not).