The last few years I bought a couple of phones just when they got around a corner. I sure do not expect a million applications available and absolute absence of bugs in an all-new smartphone even more on a new platform. But what I have been experiencing can be only described by "me being a beta tester for nokia or microsoft" (and a friend of mine who just bought his galaxy, for google, I'm not after a specific company, the practice has flooded the whole industry)

I don't mind even that. If users can contribute for faster development and that means that eventually new technology will reach the end user faster it's ok. What is starting to annoy me, is that those companies are selling you (for a price not at all small) a beta product stating nowhere that basic functionalities are missing (pc suite support, anyone?) and all of a sudden, some months later they stop development and no more updates are issued for a specific product, driving you to buy the next one. I feel that I have a right to be compensated for the time waiting for my phone to become what I expected to buy with a few usability or new feature updates later on the models life. Yes that means "I want widgets on the 5800, because when I bought it it was full of bugs" even if this sounds a bit illogical.

And yes, if I had ditched the N95 for the N900 I would be pissed off. No voice navigation option, no office, no outlook syncronization... These are things that you don't dig in the specs to find out, they are considered obvious.

I don't want to start a fight, I am perfectly happy with the N900 for the use I bought it, I even talked a friend into buying it, after making sure he knew all the aforementioned omissions. But if I see a killer software feature on a 200$ cheaper maemo device and it doesn't make it to the N900 (see widgets and kinetic scrolling on the 5530) I'll surely feel cheated

The 5530 is S60v5, not maemo. You have some good points on the rest of it though - we'll have to see how Nokia handle longer-term support though.

I know it's s60v5, I'm just making a comparison. S60v5 was the new platform a year ago and 5800 was the first phone. Then the 5530 came out with the same OS and the features everybody wanted software-wise in a compromised hardware (and price). Features that never made it to the 5800.
The new platform is now maemo and the N900 is the first phone to feature it. Imagine that a crippled $300 N890 comes out Q4 2010 without say GPS and OpenGL but boasting all the killer software features everybody's screaming about on this forum (portrait mode, mms and so forth) and at the same time the N900 users -the guys that fueled all that development- are left out in the cold.

Not out in the cold, we'll have those by then.

We did pay for them, but we knew that when we saw that it has a new OS and that shiny, shiny ... shiny ... ooOoooOOooohhh...

Man if you dont like the N900 just sell it!!!

That what i did with the N97

But for me, The n900 is a different story

IM IN LOVE WITH IT

I dont regret replacing the iphone 3GS with it...

Its like my dream comes true,

But i have to say, I agree with some of the points, Specially the GPS

Cause i need it

Also whats the problem with PC suite if may i ask??

This is not antother thread about how the N900 sucks or what bugs it has. I clearly stated that I am perfectly happy with my purchase.
The point I am trying to make that as we, users, are expected to act as guinea pigs for every new product in the electronics and software market, we have the right to expect (and that we must realise and demand it) longer support and those new features that were developed using our feedback.

See it from another point of view. Early adopters fuel the development and contribute in the maturing of new software hardware etc. They also provide fiscal support for the innovators that push new ideas in the market. Who benefits from all these? The slow adopter, mainstream user who expects (and gets) the new technologies when they are mature enough. What I want, is a reward for the early adopter, I want him to see the technology he bought as it meant to be.

off topic but pc suite and ovi suite as downloaded from nokia don't support basic functions like contacts management. (last weeks news)
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Sorry to say this but, Keep on dreaming...wont happen in this life (maybe the next )

5800 just got the kinetic scrolling and the homescreen update in a recent firmware. Just saying.

thats awesome news! That's the kind of support I am talking about and if we see it now (a year after 5800 release) on a mid-range model, maybe we can hope for the same thing on maemo. Keep the updates coming!

@Ahmed
Hope you are wrong, really hope you are wrong and joppu just make me believe that's more than a hope
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