What is this 'finished' you speak of?

Will it ever reach a point where I wouldn't bother installing a new, kick-*** app because my n900 is 'finished'?

Will it ever reach a point where I put it to one side and don't bother looking for new things to make it do (as I have other phones)?

Will it ever cease to suprise me, because I know all about it, and am bored?

Dear God, I hope not. I hope my n900 goes on growing, developing and becoming more and more exciting for a long time yet. I don't want a device that I set up, and then say "Right, that's done then".

Of course, I have an advantage. Being a linux-virgin, there's so, so much for me to learn and try and explore. So I guess the question for me is not whether My Mo will ever be 'finished' but whether I will.

When I stop learning, screw the lid down on the box, will you?

I definately agree with that rev.

I too have to learn all the traits of linux (When my n900 actually arrives tommorow/next day.) And thats an experience i cannot wait to explore.

Read this:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...p-on-the-n900/

and you'll find out that the N900 is unfinished in the most positive sense of the word.

After having read the above, I've installed Easy Debian on the N900, and so my N900 is more unfinished than ever, because I can now import rather freely from Linux, and keep expanding the capabilities of the N900, safely combining the exisiting software in Debian with the elaborate firmware of the N900, which I also like very much. Just yesterday, I've added printing support to my N900 by installing CUPS (described in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...369#post490369)
so I can print out anything now on my network printer at home.

Do you think the earth will ever be finished?

Maemo platform suffers from the fact that that it is a third platform in Nokia offering. There is S60, then S40, [big blank here] and then there is Maemo.
It will get even worse with Maemo 6 and the upcoming "unified Qt-based experience".

Maemo needs a second company that will take an opportunity (and risk) of making Maemo it's main and only operating system.
I am excited by the Chinese devices powered by Maemo. I surely hope that we will see another HTC-like story on Taiwan etc. - but this time with Maemo powered devices.

Everyone is so quick to jumpt to Maemo's defense!
I was more getting at it being finished in terms of featurese you'd expect from a phone....
I guess we'll just see what happens!

No, it never will.
Just like the N95 never got firmware updates to fix bugs and the iPhone never got features added..

LOL. This is the maemo fan site. You were expecting what?

Besides, I've been using WinMO phones for 6 years, and I'm still waiting for Microsoft to finish WinMo in terms of phone features - and that included me buying a new phone every 1.5 years, since there is never more then 1, if even 1, official firmware update for any winmo phone.

So sure, MAEMO will become more and more feature rich over time. Most, many, all? of those changes will be available on the n900 at least until its hardware is too old to support newer features.

Hey, did you know you can't get the latest droid (2.0) for the original G1? What a ripoff! I paid $550 for that phone!

Indeed I remember my N70 never even had all the bugs fixed before it's contract was up!

I indeed read about the G1, not great for early adopters.. besides I don't think I'm ready to sell my soul to Google just yet!

I think my biggest problem with WM was that the manufacturers always skin it up to make it look all nice and apeal to consumers, who were inevitably dissapointed when they realised how much of the user experience was still the same as on a 8 year old pda..

I do have a lot of hope for the N900 and that Nokia will continue to support it with new OS releases, but should probably have more faith that the community will find a way to get them to work anyway!

As a prior 770, present N810 owner... and honestly less fanatical than most about the Maemo platform - it's great, but Nokia keeps restarting and forgetting the prior platform - you have a reason to be concerned.

But I'll ask you this. If being on the cutting edge bothers you, don't buy the N900. I mean, being an early adopter, you've already resigned yourself to getting possibly screwed. You might not like it, you might even write an angry letter or ten to the company that left you behind; however being an early adopter means that you might just left behind.

Been there, done that.

As far as the phone being "finished"... that's what this community is for. Want something, mention it. It might just happen. Now that is a good part about Maemo.

I personally have decided not to go with the N900 mainly because I can afford either the phone or afford the switch to T-Mobile, but not both. And the price of admission is always higher for early adopters.

But be honest. It's new, it's shiny and damn right you want it. Use more than just that notion (of newness) to figure out if you should buy it or not.