They defined an internet tablet with Flash 9.4 capabilities and delivered just that.

No comment about "updates" are anywhere in any definition. Flash 10.1 was shown by a third party, Adobe at their Adobe MAX last October. No word from Nokia (not surprising) about it ever was made official.

I'm not baiting nor arguing against you; I truly get your point. But step back out of the disappointment and you'll see that this is "business as usual" once you're purchased any gadget.

There's no guarantee that you will get an update even if terms like "computer" are used and we're used to updating them, right?

Cooler heads shall prevail my friend.

Yes please get over it. Why stress yourself so much? You can get an android and relax about it. Nothing you say or do will bring support for Flash 10.1 on N900 immediately. If at all it needs to come then it is probably already in planning and no they won't tell you when it will or will not come. So chill yall'.

Surely the fact that the n900 is hardly a year old and already obsolete considering it was labeled a flash ready internet tablet gives us a strong reason to be upset?

At the end of the day it is a business decision and in my opinion a bad one, I have owned one Nokia before my n900 and I truly do think that the n900 is probably the best phone I have ever had but Nokia's dreadfull customer support means that when it comes to my next phone choice I will not be selecting a nokia!

Flash 10.1 was shown running on the n900 so what's the crack? No communication from Nokia, hell I just wish they handed over the the entire source for the n900 and all the work to date and be done with it, would save us all a load of grief!

I got an answer from Nokia support (Germany), which sounds like:
"There are many applications and ring tones by 3rd parties at NOKIA OVI Store. But they can't told me if the software (flash player 10.1) is for sale or is available."

Also I called the support. They said to me, that they don't know when flash player 10.1 will be available. This depends from model version and build number of my phone (rofl). But they can't give me an answer, but she will forward my wishes to the development bureau.

I asked again and I know exactly:
I will never buy a product from Nokia again.

Well, my N900 is up for sale (planning to get the (much cheaper in my country) galaxy S so it's either or.
Either somebody buys it and I'll move to android or flash does come up and I cancel the sale.

Christ, if you're going to switch to an android device at least go with the Droid 2. Samsung's android phones are meh compared to the droids.

I'm hopeful that if nokia won't deliver, at least the community might I'm guessing Adobe only gives their dev tools to make flash 10.1 happen to corporations with lots of cash?

With 10.0.45 (desktop version hack) video works excellent except a slight jittering on sound (on lehto 900 mhz kernel).With Froyo version the video restarts itself.

So, if anybody wants Flash 10.1 at least try the Flash hack.It works excellent!

@nax

Umm... NO!

I'm a previous owner of motorola (sigh - worst build quality I've seen in my life) and sony (with their damn useless under-performing M2 memory cards, crappy pop-port, bug-full OSes and never arriving updates).

As an example, the 3G speed of droid 2 "Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps". I know them for keeping it real cheap and not eve if they sold a phone made out of titanium would I buy it.

I'm not a previous samsung owner but the i8910 (symbian) was certainly a hit, if you know HX (custom roms) the things that have been moded and enhanced on that device are amazing, even though samsung provided little support.

And with android although the OS requires a ridiculous amount of buttons, doesn't have a task manager, etc etc, the updates keep rolling from google and if samsung would stop support I believe community updates wouldn't be to difficult to bring (I hope).

So yes I'm a most difficult client with little options. I certainly won't return to nokia unless they change their policy of (not) offering upgrades.

You're actually the first person I hear that said that Motorola's build quality is poor. All I've been hearing is that the droid and droid x are built like tanks.
Also I personally like the vanilla android - no "skins" and UI overlays for me, which is what the droid 2 provides.
Oh well, to each his own.

i just turn phone off and boot into nitdroid and can watch flash10 vids all night long no problem, then when i want to use maemo i turn phone off and boot maemo,
personally i think nokia did a good job building a phone capable of doing that! (along with all the community devs who also made it possible!)
n900 is an awesome device, nuff said