I do like the tags. Same people writing the same thing because people slag off the holygrail of soon to be house bricks.

N900 is already dead as far as Nokia is concerned as no matter what you as a community do, nothing will improve ovi maps, ovi suite and ovi store and they are the Nokia level of support. They are the things you measure Nokia's support by. The report on the register.co.uk this morning from a rather influential analyst suggest that Nokia's recent conference was smelling of desperation. Another report a few weeks back was another cleve bloke showing the failings in the organisational and leadership of Nokia, from a very indepth view. So I think as a company they have lost the plot. Never mind just the N900.

Community support is one thing, but it is six months on, I still can't get MMS despite fMMS, I still can't get custom ring tones because it takes 25 seconds to ring, my phone still can't really multitask despite what you all claim. If I load media player is stutters because the CPU can't hack it, open explorer then load media player and it is worse. While watching a film it takes five presses to get it to register you want to press the screen to do something else. (then crashes) The battery is rubbish, I have to run an optimisation script daily to avoid a reboot, it takes me 2 file explorers to copy and paste between directories. Because one can copy but can't create folders, the other can't copy but can create directories. There is still no realistic working word app package, abiword just corrupts all my files with meta tags in pink and freeoffice crashes after loading. Most games work but few are worth it, those few that are, that really use the N900, like wargus I can't get to work at all. I need apps from the community to tell me I got an SMS or missed call, contacts management is appalling and the phone app is frustrating because it rotates with the accelerometer. Making answering it impossible. And everynow and then mid film it decides that the AVI is now not supported, requiring a reboot anyway.

What it came with doesn't work as needed, what is created from the community is still in beta.

So yes the community will produce something, but will it be polished and work, or will it be six months of trial and error before it is worth using?

Nokia did this as a test bed, then changed their minds. It is a dead platform and Nokia have moved on. It has no future beyond community support and that support will slowly move into Meego or more likely, jump to android.

I am not a developer, don't begin to understand complexity you lot go through, and thanks for keeping the N900 from being thrown out the window long ago. Just think your talents should really be put to other companies, ones that actually value the customers.