I'd agree with you if it weren't for it doesn't seem like half of Nokia is talking to the other half. And the end result is mass confusion and chaos where marketing thinks the N900 is a smartphone (probably along the lines of Symbian) and the Maemo team considers it as the next step of the Internet Tablet series with the a cellular radio slapped into it for data purposes.

It's quite sad when I think about it. The number of individuals that have been mislead into buying the N900 by marketing and salesmen selling the N900 with no clue of what it does, doesn't do, etc..No wonder we have so many new users here that are in various states of satisfaction and confusion.

It's like I tell other people who ask me about my N900, I don't recommend it if your expecting a smartphone like Android, the iPhone, or even Symbian (although I have no experience with Symbian). Even in the best case scenario (QT compatibility brings all the commercial apps we see on the iPhone and Android platform) I would still say the N900 makes a terrible smartphone simply because it's OS design was not for smartphone usage.

Hell, I would even say it's a terrible phone if it weren't for my basic qualification for a phone being it makes and receives phone calls.