I paid the same amount of money that you did for my device (and full price for N810 and N800). There are no excuses here...would you rather have no front camera at all or a front camera that does Gtalk and Skype after a firmware update? Simple yes/no answer please. Would you rather have no IR port at all or awesome apps like QTirreco and raemote? Would you rather have no FM radio at all than applications like FMradio? I don't get your point?

You paid 'lots' of money and these hardware features are simply things that can enhance your use of the device. I simply don't get the angst on this forum sometimes...*apologies to all but here it comes* if you want another phone get an iPhone, oh right in order to get a front facing camera you will have to buy a 4G iphone not update a 3GS which shipped without one.

Every modern smartphone increases functionality with software updates, Android/iPhone/ Symbian all of them. We are lucky we have the most open device on the market by far and it happens to ship with awesome customizable hardware.