Several people who are clearly fond of their N900 phones expressed their dismay at feeling abandoned. The N900 runs Maemo, an operating system Nokia developed based on Debian Linux. Earlier this year Nokia said it would merge Maemo with Moblin, an open-source operating system that Intel developed.

"You've created the supercool N900. Why are you abandoning it in terms of software support?" a user called kevinp93 asked. "I own a Nokia N900 and believe it is one of the best smartphones, but why didn't Nokia market it well?" another fan, Praveen Chand, asked.

However, Niklas Savander, head of sales and marketing for Nokia and the executive taking the questions, didn't address those or other questions about the N900.