Apologize that I am not intended to start a fire here.

I did study before i bought n900. It is market as a Nokia *smart*phone so my expectation should include full USSD support (e.g. **21*xxxxxxxx#) or google contact sync which is in most of phone supported in market nowaday. I dont expect Nokia to fix the bugs promptly but these should come in default (but not come in the form of bugs or wishlist).

If you go to those threads/bugs about USSD and google sync (MfE), answer is ridicous...
- USSD, they fixed few but not all codes. What people reported the code, they fixed one from bugs report!!
- google sync (MfE). thread told google implement MfE not from standard so n900 can't sync. Sybmian got procedure and techologiy how to make it work. Why not N900?

I would just like to note that there are almost no 'old hands' responding to this thread. That means the people who know what is going-on are ignoring it.

Think about what that says for a minute.

Ahhh, thanks for your response : ) I see more clearly what you mean now. I agree with you for the most part too. Between the N97 / 5800 / X6 etc., there really aren't any significant differences - effectively (give or take an FM transmitter, compass, memory allocations, and a few odds and ends) they are all basically the same old beast under the covers.

From various forums and sources it seems as though MeeGo will see life on the N900 in the not too distant future. I believe the only thing Nokia have said is that they wont be releasing it on the N900 as a kind of OTA firmware update thing, but it is very probable that we will be able to flash more user friendly versions of it ourselves - naturally Nokia are a little evasive on answers, probably for commercial reasons, but the MeeGo forum is quite informative - I think the N900 has a good future ahead of it. I hope it does anyway.

Knowing Nokia, if a lot of people said they would NOT recommend it to a friend then they would probably drop support for the N900 even faster. Instead of reflecting on the root causes they would just jump to the conclusion that since it is not well received they should just dump it and bring out a new phone!

And who cares about Nokia then? They already dump N900, why the hell they didn't dump N9 (ok, next meego) in 6 month after release?

As for me I will not recommed Nokia's phone at all because of zero support.

You have to have a twisted mind and be a Linux geek to really enjoy N900.
Thus I recommended N900 to two of my work colleagues and they love it. But I not recommended N900 to several of my normal friends and they are happy with they iPhones and other crapPhones.
N900 fits very specific needs and is not for everyone. (Duh... If something is for everyone it's for noone.)

First one showing phone working flawless with every single piece of other software today is the winner.

I cannot see that winner anywhere ! Because it just doesn't exists.
(not even on iphone, I know that from my collegues)

Every piece of software has it's life cycle; from birth to yourth, then to adulthood and finally to midde age, where most of things work to retirement, when everything again starts to falling apart.

Enjoy what you have; it is still one of most usable professional mobile devises on market, and let hype on global markets go by.

Hypes comes and goes, only good devices last.
For me this piece of HW will last long as it has everything I need/wish (VPN, ssh client, KB to use that shell, and I can even talk with it ! (including non-work calls via skype for free) also including working calendar and email ... Thus no need open laptop for every support call I get).

I doubt that anybody realistic will want a perfect phone - you'll never buy one.

But what people really want is a phone that has less problems in the stuff they use everyday, support that lasts more than just a quarter or two; and since we're here at TMO (formerly ITT) we'll want dev tools that admins will love but easy to set up apps that shorten a lot of the stuff that we do... and an e-mail client that's actually not bad.

I don't like lugging around my laptop all of the time. The N900 excels in this area when it's time to admin a linux or VNC capable box. But the e-mail client is downright horrible. And a phone stack that doesn't seen so "tacked on" like it's an afterthought.

Back to the subject matter; the parts within Nokia are not talking to each other. And worse, they're not talking to us, the consumer either.

Everyone writing to this thread need to realise something especially the OP, Nokia are a money making machine like any other manufacturer and to say they are NOT working as a team is so wrong !.

The N900 was a complete disaster for Nokia so they are doing what any company would do in these circumstances... shelving the lot and moving on because pointless to waste time = money on a disasterous product.

It will get Meego IF it turns out to be an easy option and not lose time and money futhering a disaster.

People need to get real and realise facts here.

N900 was 1st one having VPN+ssh+KB after communicator !
It was wrongly advertised, that's all ... and then again, tell me company, whom makes initial annoucement 100% correct today.
I know so many, whom are not able to do that ...