It's a mobile computer with phone radios...

This whole announcement is a good reflection about what's going on @Nokia - they announced 10 devices will get support right away, the top-of-the-line high end model n97 and it's predecessor n95 are not on the list. Way to go.

I would be thrilled to have this on N900 as well but frankly - N900 is a geek/testing device right now on Nokias roadmap and I don't expect them to "waste" resources to produce a better mapping application themselves, there is always Google and community alternatives...

Wayfinder on n810 died a slow death, I expect the same fate to the n900's Ovi maps, but hey - prove me wrong on this one and I'm a very happy camper

This is just typical of the ******ed management at Nokia!

They remind me of Palm many years ago when they just seem to lose focus on thier business. Palm developed great hardware and great software. Unfortunately this was not enough and the company just seemed to flounder for many years (numerous buy-outs, constant re-organising and frequent re-brands). Now Palm have had limited success but have completely lost the lead they had before the "immortal jesus phone" that is iPhone and Apple took the lead.

I think Nokia are in the early stages when Palm started making "odd" decisions and Nokia appear to have lost focus within the mobile phone market.

I'm afraid it will get worse before it gets better. The N900 is a top-end smartphone and they could increase sales of it by including the free premium version of OVI maps - it's a great selling point.

But they won't. It will probably be ignored.

If you look at how they mis-managed the launch of th N900 - numerous delays, released a "buggy" firmware update, released the N900 in the USA first (which made no difference to thier market share) and the "stone-wall of silence" towards the community you can see why I am skeptical.

I'm afraid Nokia appear to be aimless in thier business strategy and will not have the success they deserve.

I've been told by nokia support that the turn-by-turn OVI Maps will be released as an update within the following month, but those are just words.

As we all know it can be postponed due to "bad weather" or any other cr*p

dont think so. Nokia bought out symbian - so why would they do that? No it is a dual-os strategy - one for "smaller" phones - and maybe Maemo for the larger phones.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/nokia-buys-symbian/

both platforms are/will be "open source"

LOL
I think there is going to be alot of "bad weather" before we see free turn by turn on the N900..

its sold on the Nokia website under the 'Phones' tab - its a phone.

You must have missed the semantic laden battles about that very same subject.

its not a very good phone tho....

Although I love my N900 it is impossible to reccomend because of this nonsense. We are not important to Nokia.