Okay, I'll repeat another time.
Of course the device in the video will get released in the meaning of getting into the hands of people outside of Nokia.
Therefore it have to fullfill certain legal requirements, such as passing FCC and so on.
The video was made some weeks ago (about 2 to 3) to present the device to the community/developers who will get the device).
It's not meant as commercial for the end consumer.
A hint for that is that it is pretty cheap produced, made from some shots of the device itself and some meaningless, not connected to the device images of random people (you can actually buy these kind of shots as you can buy advertising pics, I'm doing this all the time for different companies).

the consumer device is not yet at FCC, because it will not be announced next week.

So it seems dev device will be shown next week but no official information about the consumer device will be announced?

So funny to take a look at the mobile-review forums and see that they justify theories pointing to the tmo threads, and here we do the same with them!

I don't know if they'll tell us about the consumer-device in detail but certainly they'll tell us, that there is a commercial device in the timeline.
sure thing is that they won't distribute the consumer device, because it's not allowed by law in the US to distribute devices which do not have the FCC certification.

A similar case is Intel. They have to distribute the ExoPCs instead of the WeTab (even though the WeTab is sold running MeeGo and is cheaper) because the WeTab is only sold in Germany and Netherlands and doesn't have the FCC sticker on it.
Actually it passed through FCC (because the hardware of both the ExoPC and the WeTab is made by Pegatron based on the same reference design and is therfore nearly the same) but they simply didn't print the FCC logo on it.
Therefore it can't be distributed in the US. Funny thing is that they even import it to the EU, just to have the same device everywhere^^

OK, and repeat to me please if you have explained before, how does this "developer" and "consumer" device thing works? People will **** with Nokia executives in order to get a developer device to them, then develop applications that are meant to be used by consumers of _a different_ device?

And the consumer device, on the other hand, will be normally acquired through standard means, but people will be somehow forbidden to develop for it, because it's for consumers and not developers? It's just a closed software that can't run apps, something like an old S20 phone?

I can see the trend taking up the whole industry already, Steve Jobs is planning the next black iPhone to be a developer iPhone, and the white iPhone following it will be the consumer iPhone! And the antennas will be made so that the developer iPhone must be held with the right hand to work, and the consumer iPhone with the left hand.

Hey, some people were saying that the leaked N9 video was actually showing TWO different phones instead of just one... Maybe it was already the developer phone, and the future consumer phone??...

I don't look to any other forum for real Info I can get it myself and I trust zehjotkah 100% with info he as and hope he feels same about me after few exclusive info I shot towards him yesterday in a discussion.
Btw zehjotkah if you read last private message I sent you erase Harmattan part seems the discussion on going will be for Symbian Only, I got more clarification last night.
Yes I may go on lot and start attacking people when people start questioning my honesty but that does not Mean I'm being Untruthful, It's out of frustration b/c you don't believe me and I can't say More as I'm already Jeopardising my ability to get future info.

This thread is all about the fact that N900 has enormous capabilities and there are a owners of this phone who just want to have a phone which has all the capabilities of n900 and features of all the other phones in the world or OS on which other phone runs so in nutshell :

Openness and task switching features of n900 along with the ability to hack and develop personal apps
plus the h/w keyboard as it is currently in n900
plus all the games available on Android market and Iphone apps
plus HTC sense
plus OVI maps as found on Symbian
plus light in weight
plus Debian
plus Qt
plus Single desktop but tabbed views rather than swiping the tabs left or right
plus hardware button to take calls or to cancel them
plus facility of phone video calling facility
plus voice dialing to phone and via car bluetooth.
plus Skype from three that does not count towards your network usage
plus Google talk
plus all the games on Preenv
MINUS WP7

I saw the N9 on a white truck today lol .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-awf...layer_embedded

both devices are running the same software.

so I wait a good three months after release and hope some developer is selling there device lol