I did. For some time I used just a standard cell phone with the N810 (which, obviously, isn't helping here since we're still supporting Nokia).. but once I got the G1 the N810 just wasn't as useful anymore so I left it at home and never really thought about it again.

But then I had to deal with android day in and day out.. Now.. Android is a fine OS - it just isn't me. It kept not doing things I wanted it to.. or do things I didn't want it to (killing my connections.. constantly.. cuz "I wasn't using them"..) just downright frustrating.

But now I'm hooked to a singular device. When I saw the n900 I nearly cheered, finally the N810 back but smaller (for my pocket) and faster (my biggest gripe about the N810.. processor sucked) and most importantly Maemo.

Unfortunately that came with a price.. a price I didn't have. So I started saving, wrote an app for it to get donations, and by the time I had the money now I'm reading that the N900 could be forgotten within a couple months after release. So I waited and dealt with android (a broken one at that) longer until I read that at the minimum, there would be dev releases of the future OS for the N900. Then I finally bought one.

Honestly that's all I can do. Do I like Nokia? Not particularly.. honestly I don't much care one way or the other from "Nokia" to "Motorola" to "HTC".. doesn't make a difference to me. But, Nokia is the only one releasing a device that is closest for me. Thus, they get my money. They will continue to get my money, unfortunately, despite their bad record, as long as they continue to release devices that fit me best around the time that i need them.

That's just the unfortunate truth of it.. But at no point in any of this did it occur to me to blame Texrat, or the Council in any way. They didn't make my phone, and they certainly didn't make me buy it. I will admit to sometimes getting frustrated with Quim. Don't get me wrong, he seems an excellent dude that I'd love to take for a drink sometime.. but every time he speaks I can almost see that he is tip toeing around NDA's and a specific list of stuff he's allowed and specifically not allowed to talk about. I don't believe we get a whole truth from him all the time - but at the same I don't really blame him.

He does have to eat, too. I can't expect him to put his job on the line because I'm angry my phone gets ignored.