Example in here(Finland)it will most probally be mass market seeing the reception it have had and it being even on the main media. It might come something that N95 was(it will if ít had gathered as much preorders from other stores as verkkokauppa.com).

Globally i think N900 will gather rather big part of the high end Samsung and Nokia buyers(plus some who have left Symbian after 5th edition), but it's not a phone that will lure new people from mid end.

If Nokia would really market N900 it could become rather big for Nokia imo, but Maemo 5 and N900 isn't yet the right time to go all out.

The problem will be largely price in the USA. Especially since you can get an iPhone for 99-300 dollars. While we've yet to hear any subsidized cost in the USA. Most people are accustomed to buying their phone in contract despite it being more expensive.

i think it will be the power users picking this up initially and open source community but whether it go's mass market depends on nokia pushing it and networks subsiding also good coverage from the blogesphere helps which it as been getting without a doubt

nokia has already said repeatedly that this deviceand its OS are just a stepping stone to step 5. I am assuming that they will use folks like us here as early adopter/beta testers for about one year and then release a range of devices with maemo 6 that they will likely push a little harder.

I hope nobody thinks that I'm insensitive when I say this, but...

I want the N900 for the same reasons I want my tablets; I can hack them to be whatever I want them to be, and there's a great, supportive community who will help when I have questions.

I will be polite (as always) to non-hackers who just want to know how to change their ringtone (which, on the N900, is just any old MP3 ), and I'm glad that Nokia wants to sell more N900s so that they can pay their employees to keep making nice toys, but to me, the core purpose of Maemo is to offer the flexibility of a home computer in a tiny device. That means my N900 won't look or act much like your N900 after a few months of us both owning one...

And if you don't want to hack around with your device, I'm ok with that (even if I don't understand it). But I would encourage you to give it a try...

Hmm. community marketing: 'The N900 is for me, because X", fill in X?

If nokia markets this correctly it could be for everyone. its more capable than any other device i have seen and even for the social community (something the n97 was marketed for but failed at). Its gonna come down to how well its pushed by nokia. The form factor may let this down for some ppl but bulky never stopped the i phone suceeding with them.

Well, to me the N900 is the first phone I have ever really wanted. Or more like, it's something I've been wanting for the past five years.

The first thing I'll do once I'll get mine out of the package is to charge the battery, enable R&D mode and see how much applications I currently have on my linux desktop I can get running on the phone. Or I guess I should say "computer", as I define a computer to be something that allows me to create and execute arbitrary code without any external limitations.

...I even considered buying the neo freerunner back when it was released, but that was a bit too lacking in features for me to consider it seriously. Anyway, I expect mine won't look anything like the standard configuration after some 5 hours or so tinkering

i totally agree, but some ppl feel like the qwerty key board is lumbersome... and they feel as though, since the iphone is key board less and "thinner because of that reason that despite its bulky rectangular size/shape its the perfect form factor" for a device of its caliber.


I oto, think that n900 is just about perfect ( minus the screen size ) "because of the qwerty key board" (i gotta have tactile keys), but IMHO if nokia came out with another version ( much like the n800 to the n810 ) of the n900 but with no physical key board ( which would make it slimmer/ thinner) the mass market we all keep talkin about, and how their take will be on this, would LOVE it... all the ppl i work with are dumb suckers for the iphone/touch for a few reasons but one that i keep hearing is they like it because its slim and the full touch screen...

Suurorca,
How do you enable R&D Mode? This is the first time I've heard of this mode? Is it in all versions of Maemo, or just Maemo 2008?