In a way I believe both arguments are correct, it can easily be said that the phone is aim'd at a "nerdified" user group but I personally think that this only comes down to unlocking the phones full potential... Only a "nerd" would install VNC onto their phone so as to dial into their home server or use queenbeecon to run loads of scripts.

You have to agree though that many of the phones faults are so serious that there is just no way to fix them yourself, and then the ones that can be fixed are as simple as the op says it makes you wonder why we haven't seen a fix yet... My emails don't auto-update so a wrote a script myself in alarmed, it was easy once I knew how but why hasn't nokia fixed this for people who would never do it themselves? I think the phone is great, I use the FM transmitter all the time, unlocked that to a lower frequency my car radio uses making it even better, I have loads of script's in alarmed doing all the things I would usually have to do myself, I have sooo many games at my finger tips what with the emulators, scumm etc. It just REALLY annoys me that the phone could have been sooo much more!

As pmw says the phones OS just isn't good enough and with just a little bit of effort could be fixed, after how badly the n97 was received I personally think the N900 would have seen excellent sales, and Nokia would have made themselves allot of money, when I first got my N900 I showed my bro and he was shocked to see me playing quake3 on my phone, when I gave it to him to use he quickly realised the phone wasn't for him... Such a shame