Oh come on. Nokia _did_ screw up with the 770->N800 transition, but there's no real reason they need to repeat that mistake. As I, and others, pointed out at the time, Palm managed to come out with new devices year after year and _all_ the old devices could still be used with 99.9% of the new software that came out (the exception was arm-specific software like e.g. TomTom navigatior, which would work only on certain PalmOS version 5 devices. In fact the rest (the 99.9%) still continues to run on _both_ m68k-based as well as arm-based devices, how about that for a platform change?)

Palm used to churn out a couple of new models every year, sometimes twice a year. Definitely at a higher rate than Nokia so far. There are still between 20,000 and 30,000 applications available for devices several (not to say _many_) years old.

Nokia is (because of the open nature of the software) in an even better position to do this right. After the 770->N800 mini-fiasco they stated that they will. If they follow up on that promise then there's no real reason why they couldn't in principle come out with new models all the time, without screwing the user base.

What I'm saying is, let's wait for the new device and see what happens. Only then should we cast judgement.