My god, some people are drawing some creative conclusions.

First, I would like to point out that what you people are doing is mistaking the concept of "free" with the concepts of "good" and "competitive". There is free navigation on the N900, that's not up for debate. Either you agree or you don't understand the word "navigation" at all. It's not only free, it's going to stay free. Forever. Unlike some other existing navigation software that only works for a year and then you need to extend the licence. Hence the "forever".

What you expect is turn by turn, voice assisted navigation. What you expect is what some of the competition have. What you expect is good navigation software. The N900 doesn't have that. Nokia doesn't own good navigation software for Linux. They have good navigation on Symbian - which is not the same navigation software that the N900 has. It doesn't even have the same name. Comparing version numbers is like comparing Opera Mini 4 with Opera 10. You can argue in court that you expect Opera Mini 4 to have all the features of Opera 10 - but then you will have to pay the judge for wasting his time on nonsense.

Navigation software: yes, Ovi Maps for N900.
Free navigation: absolutely.
Good navigation: no.
Voice navigation: no.
Turn by turn navigation: no. Correction: yes. There is.
Routing navigation: yes.

And whoever read an N8 ad and means it should say anything about the quality of the software on last years models:

No, actually, I won't comment on that. It would be rude. I'll just leave it at the fact that PC ads bragged about having a Microsoft OS ever since 1981 or something like that. Those PCs were more expensive than the Windows 7 pc's you buy now. So, does that mean those ads were misleading too?