Well my fellow Nokia N900 Owners, I am now leaving this forum, so im leaving an elongated meandering post !!!!

I sold my N900 last night on ebay, and it sold a matter of *minutes*, in fact a record breaking, astonishing *** 4 *** minutes after I listed it, I was sold to a UK Bidder, after fees I got about £175. I genuinely hope the buyer is happy as it was *as new* with none of the earpieces etc used, in original box with all the kit present.

So as a farewell

Firstly to flanders, (this is prob gonna be worth a 6 million point infraction, but now im leaving i dont really care), he BANNED me for a week for simply posting this

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58582

He obv has anger management issues, or somtimes the truth hurts..............his langauge he used to ban me was full of e-rage and I cant repeat it......but rage is the word.

I am Mid 30's have been programming since the 8 bit micro z80/6502 etc scene, then onto the revered Amiga Motorola 68k assembler , C/C++ (COBOL as well...hate to admit ), as well as the more obscure Prolog, done Dbase database and loads of other languages.

Now I run my own business as a Linux Consultant, using a mix of Ubuntu/Centos/RedHat/Suse...

So to anyone I offended by my posts, I am truly and genuineley sorry, But my aforementioned "phone" as per Nokias sales stuff cost me (roughly) £220 in December + 18 Months at £30

So since December I've made 2 Phone calls (test calls btw) and used 0mb data (on wifi in house) so let me see thats, 7 months times £30 plus £220 is a total of £430 for 2 phone calls !!!!!!!!!!, and now my sim is going into my Nokia 6300 where it will just prob sit. (unless sum1 knows a way to get out of contracts ???)

I bought my iPhone 3gs *after* my n900 because i was so pissed off with the n900, and I truly LOVE the iphone, but as im a big open source believer at heart so my next phone will be android. (its no more closed than the n900 before you start flaming)

IMHO Nokia has TWO choices, Ive been riducluded for posting this months ago when I joined, and no doubt I will be ridiculed now as well, but here goes

1) TRULY OPEN SOURCE the platform

2) Adopt Android

Nokia are now a headless chicken and will do neither of the above, meego does look promising and I belive they are going to use this on their next phone (correct me ???)....they have a chance with this if they do

Nokia have let alot of people down since the n900, the very poeple they can least afford to loose, as the marketing gumf goes ONE happy customer MIGHT tell someone about it, an UNHAPPY customer will tell EVERYONE about it. Nokia has effectively abandoned the n900 *months* after releasing it with SUB-BETA quality software

Im only on here for another 4 hours (at which point I will get a 67 trillion point infraction and be banned for 5.6 light years), so any questions please be quick

Gary