Those who are worried about not being able to get harmattan or meego on the n900 - by the time you'd want to switch the software you'll also want to upgrade the hardware. The n900 is already behind the times and in 6-12 months will be more of a brick than it already is. the mobile phone platform is succinctly different from the desktop platform and people should not think about the two as parallel.

Is it that hard to understand that most people do not buy a new 600 Euro phone every year?

The hard to understand is why people are so inclined to jump to conclusions and throw around childish threats without ever bothering to READ and UNDERSTAND what an article is saying. Ditto for bloggers who have trouble interpreting a sentence in English that has less than 10 words.

Certianly not to me! I don't know if it works differently outisde the UK but here, most people get their phone as part of a contract. The standard is now 18 months but shops/networks are steadily pushing 24 months here to become the norm. Expecting a BRAND NEW phone to stay current for at least half of that period is far from unreasonable!

Attilla: I tend to agree with you, but then I read the following from someone on your side of the issue:

"Nokia are a business and have chosen a path of using the OSS community phenomenon to reduce their overheads specifically after sales support and development. There are no big enhancement requests coming for the N900 so don't bother going on about it. You want it, you code it"

That is a message to people who bought the N900 that it's time for them to become developers because support for the N900 is going to disappear soon.

Do you agree with that message or not?

Despite all the detailed refutations (denials?), the main point here I think is pretty clear:

...some users are questioning the value that Nokia delivers through the N900, compared to other competitors or industry 'benchmarks' in this section of the market. (User's experience of the device, 3rd party support of the device, developers support, availability and activity of online marketplace, continued support thru OS iterations, etc, etc).

Obviously, many users overshoots their expectations of Nokia... and this is something that Nokia has to take some pride in that they've managed to do so(?). Although personally, I don't understand this, because Nokia hasn't had the track record to back this up in the past. But it's a worthy praise from the users, nonetheless.

For those that say "this will be my last Nokia device" I have just one thing to say: good bye, you wont be missed here...

Nokia never showed intentions in updating N900 with Harmatan, now I know that it is because they knew that MeeGo was in the oven.

I bought this device because I thought as a good platform to develop for and I wanted to take a quick look. If you were a lousy consumer and didnt investigate enough what were the promises for device X and you still blame Nokia for it? Well, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Coming back to the topic, I will keep my N900 and I will most probably buy the next MeeGo device, unless something better comes along...

did you even read the article?!?

well, N900 wasn't a phone for those people at the first place...

you didn't read the article, did you?


o what about proper multitasking that has been rumored?
only device that has hw for it is 3gs.....