To me, far more significant than what version Ari Jaaski is running is what he had to say regarding mobile OSs and the internet. He's absolutely correct that if not already, certainly soon 'mobile OS' and 'mobile internet' are dead terms. That the 'mobile internet' never really happened.

And his point that with Maemo/MeeGo Nokia has positioned themselves well for future expectations of mobile hardware and software. They know they have the OS to compete with anyone. Now it's just a matter of MeeGo and Qt getting to a tipping point in terms of market share and consumer awareness.

Now as to PR1.2...clearly, Nokia has not released RCs of PR1.2 for general testing because they want to tightly control test conditions, local versions, installed software, etc and maybe most of all, reduce the feedback noise level. IOW get truly meaningful feedback not just complaints.

For all I care they can - and should - test PR1.2 as long as they want/need to. The important thing is when it goes out OTA to thousands and thousands of users, remember most who never used a terminal in their life, it just works and nobody has their N900 bricked or loses contacts, etc. etc.

PR1.2 is not a big deal, not gonna turn my N900 into a N920 or anything. Probably actually of far more importance to developers than end users. It'll get here when it gets here.