Here is the quality handset test report for October 22, 2010.
http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Handse...ptance20101022

This is presumably the same software that you are saying will be released on October 27th.

Highlights

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Key Issues:
8268- Double thumnail windows display when launching the xterm.
8414- Video playback is not smooth on N900.
7074- Incoming call can not be answered if dialer not open when call is received.
8194- [REG] Call a contact crashes contacts application.
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Result Overview
Total TCs 36
Passed 21
Failed 9
Not testable 6
Run rate 83.33%
Pass rate of total 58.33%
Pass rate of executed 70%

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Dial one outgoing call, accept by other party, terminate this call (phonesim, GSM & WCDMA) (GSM and WCDMA cannot be covered until real modem supported,Will use phonesim to test before real modem support)
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Scan wifi, check wifi connection (open/wep/wpa) and disconnection Fail
Bug 8043 - Settings application crashes on connecting to a WLAN AP
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As comment 1 of Feature 5770, usb mass storage device is detected by computer is moved to 1.2
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Bug 7170- Battery level not shown
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Top bugs
8268- Double thumnail windows display when launching the xterm.
7728- Sometimes black screen occurs when launching an application.
5850- It takes long time to launch core applications at the first time.
3590- The screen view is reversed when turn the device 180¡ãor 270¡ã
5790- Bluetooth settings does not display properly after tapping Bluetooth from Settings
7170- [N900] Battery level not shown
8043- Settings application crashes on connecting to a WLAN AP
8362- "start playing music" is not shown when no music is playing in music player.
7052- Some index letters of Video application are not displayed
8414- Video playback is not smooth on N900.
5882- DBus method requests to services not yet started timeout and loose context.
8194- [REG] Call a contact crashes contacts application.
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Call me a ignorant, but this doesn't look like the signature of software that is ready to ship 3 days from now. To me it looks like the team is shipping untested software that has a lot of bugs.