We can only hope that something arrives with Meego that has the N8 camera, so that we don't need to do that.

However I fear Meego will actually be a disappointment compared to Maemo, as I'm not sure I like the direction they are going with capacitive screen and panning desktop.

I suppose if it had a 4.3" screen then the precision of the resistive screen would not be missed as much, plus capacitive being glass is generally more scratch proof which is good. (I dropped my iPod Touch onto gravel and the screen doesn't have a mark on it, just the back does)

Quite frankly though, the N900 with a better camera and HD video support (that works smoothly) would be everything I needed. A better version of Ovi Maps too would be even better, although I find Ovi Maps on PR1.2 to be a massive improvement.

Actually that is the one and only thing I agree on, Nokia has had poor communication at times. They are quite well renown for delays and miscommunication.

How long its taken for them to tell us Meego won't be officially released on N900. How unclear that claim is as it seems now it WILL be released, but not officially supported and might need some community patching to work. You could never call that good communication.

However that does not make the N900 any less useful. At the end of the day, the biggest communication problem is between the retailer and end-user. People not being warned WHAT the N900 is, and is not. Perhaps that is Nokia at fault wanting to push the N900 and not discourage adoption (which if people knew what they were getting themselves into, they would not sell anywhere near as many) but we can only guess. Its not fair the place all blame on Nokia, we simply do not know.