Ad Hominem? Really? That's the road you want to take?

I don't recall seeing anyone (in their right mind) claiming this. This device is the best device for me (right now) - but is by no means the best device out there. There is already another phone, running android, with near identical hardware. Someone lied to you.

I very well could code a twitter app straight on the N900 and make it available for everyone. That's a tad masochistic; but most certainly an achievable measure - but not with any other phone or device. One problem though: I don't twitter. I see no purpose to it nor do I care for it. Why would I code for it? Why not go yell at Twitter for not releasing an app for your phone?

Also, FaceBrick is coming for FaceBook, and a search for Twitter in my app manager shows two promising results and a handful of others: Witter, and Tweego - not to mention a plugin that looks to integrate it right into Contacts and Conversations, just like my Facebook/ICQ/AIM/Yahoo/etc is.

Also, it's been 7 months since launch and the phone comes without MMS. Yet here we have a totally workable, useful fMMS app that is tricked so well that it almost feels and looks integrated with the rest of the phone.

Ask the iPhone users how long they had to wait for MMS support...

Portrait mode is already available; it's just not automatic. It's up to the dev's of the apps to code in support for portrait mode. This actually makes sense, if you ask me, because portrait mode really changes the dimensions of the phone. My pyPianobar, for example, if all the buttons simply rotated 90 degrees when you turned your phone would look kind of silly. It's up to me to code a "portrait" interface; and then use the code in my app to watch for and trigger the portrait switch. It's not Nokia's fault my app doesn't use portrait, it's mine. Lay the blame where it belongs.

Software right now is on hold primarily because Nokia, for some reason, updated the SDK to PR1.2 compat and broke (some) compatibility with non PR1.2 devices. And then, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hold onto PR1.2 like their life depended on it until it became the worst kept secret, ever. (I certainly hope no one's life depended on it, cuz they failed.)

I certainly offer no excuses to why PR1.2 is delayed. I will actually laugh quite loudly if I see a MeeGo 1 announcement with full GUI released before PR1.2. That will just be comedic to me.