I was a faithful Sony Ericsson buyer until they let me down on so many fronts with their self-leg shooting (especially in the Smartphone area)
N95-8GB was my first Nokia (at least that I bought myself, had one as a gift ages ago).
It was a real tough choice this one, as Nexus one and X10 were coming, the Droid etc. N97 I considered very briefly but when I saw the hardware specs and review it was out the window. Curious thing, they are doing the same with the N8 again (cpu wise).
I saw the N900 specs and software and said this is powerful enough to match any other smartphone, it's got potential on the software front, the demos where there (Koffice etc) so I went ahead.
I don't regret my choice, I don't specifically need PR1.2 as mine runs as good as any software based device ever can, but I am let down by the support and promised features.
There is a saying in my country: "If you can see the snake's trail you don't need to see the snake as well".
The snake's trail I'm seeing is of our N900s being thrown in the history closet as Nokia does more knee jerk reactions to heed of Google/HTC/Apple or what today's contender of the crown is named.

here is a official interview why the pr1.2 cames too late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0so5er4X3dc

It' nice, so the iPad is the real n900 competitor?

Niko

iPad at the moment is nothing!
In my opinion, there's no competitor for n900, because is the only device that can be a real internet table with also feature phone and everything based on Linux....

Just give to me another device that stay in a pocket, with 800x480 resolution (good web experience, video experience, photo experience) with a real Linux on it and we can speak about a competitor.

Bye.

iPad is for kids.

If you say "it's not a phone, peoples comparing it to iPhone, android tc. are wrong", I want to know to what, according to you, the n900 is comparable (or if you do not think it's comparable, what category of devices it fits). If not I'll just guess it's a religious war, and you really do not care about nokia long term strategy.

If the answer is iPad, archos devices, and other internet/multimedia tablets, becouse it's an *internet tablet* I'll join your vision and start to blame all users that cry for missing phone capabilities and the pr 1.2 delay.

Of course that is a provocation.

@xenkof: I'm not a fan of nokia lately, but I think their N8 device is quite attractive for the price point. I think it's great for Nokia (as a company) but obviously we're not in the same target market, so it may not be appealing to us. But, yes, in general I agree with your sentiments about N900 ... ;(

re: iPad

With a 9.7" screen, it's obviously not a competitor to N900 (smartphone). I've been using the iPad for more than a month now and I think it's absolutely magical (hahah).. seriously, it's a good piece of device, for what it's designed for. Media viewing (books, images, videos, web pages), Games... and I do some note taking and mind mapping on it as well. I have most of my PDF references on it and a whole lot of ebooks too. I look forward to tablet wars where more open versions compete in this device market-space.

You got the point

It seems that symbian is the real competitor in the smartphone market, while maemo/meego targets different shares.

The problem is that:

* symbian does not seems (IMHO) a real killer in the smartphone market, and does not attracts "common" developers, it's phylosophy seems to be "old"

* the n900/maemo has too much power to define it only a tablet

* maemo/meego may really gain a very big share if only the phone part has more love, and may become the PERFECT all-in-one device, more then iPhone it'is open with an open SDK, more then Android it has X and regain all exisiting gnu/linux apps.

A lot of people thinks the same, it's only Nokia that seems to go in the wrong direction (well, that in our opionion that may not be emotionless).

Finally that's the real reson I do not like "it's only an internet table" no more, no less, coming from the "OpenMoko freerunner" experience I really love the idea of gnu/linux phone/computer, just hoping that someone in Nokia will join the concept.

Niko

will never trust nokia again..

this thread is becoming as pointless as the original PR 1.2 thread