Bloody huge ugly block which is useless.

You can carry a netbook instead of that "fancy" piece of junk.

By now, I don't think anybody knows what you're saying. So sum it up in a very concise manner. Allow me to do my part in that by summing up what I'm saying... Nokia has wasted a lot of time, lost a lot of traction to come out with an incomplete product that feels more like tinker toy with pieces here and there not yet in place - Qt 4.6 not integrated yet, no concrete statement about Maemo 6 on the current device, no comments to steer fear away from the fact that three devices are never going to get any support outside of the community derived support which is stalled at this very moment with no announcements from community SSU nor Mer at this very moment or in months.

And no content partnerships, no announcements from partners that have content that other people have requested. Maemo 5 is living in a vacuum where only Nokia and this community is touching it. Argue all you want, there is no evidence that states otherwise at this very moment.

Already done. Nokia is offering me, and sadly enough a ton of other folks absolutely nothing. And silly remarks from community members like this all over this site make the average user seem unwelcome. How many times a day do you read "Go buy an <insert competitors product here>" per day because somebody is requesting something that would actually improve the Maemo platform? It's getting out of hand. It's the geek version of "well... well... if you don't like it, then go home!" - you people do not make the entirety of the community nor ownership of Nokia's products.

And if you did, the platform is dead.

Sadly, Nokia is only pleasing a select few in a rather myopic market. Time for the pieces to come together. And yeah, next person to say "well bail" - you're saying that to just more than one person when that flies out of your mouth in such a visible community.

hi together,

at first this is an interesting thread. I used the ipod touch gen2 for a long time (before n900). So to tell the truth the ui of the ipod is really the best at the Moment also the Touchscreen seems to work much better than on the n900 its just more reponsive. Sometimes if i tap at my n9 nothing happens..

The Ipad seems to be interesting about the new form factor and the the look and feel seems to be interesting for a laptop replacement for many ppls. The point is apple also isnt also the best you need itunes and you cant play realmedia or any other format without jailbreak.

But i think ppls dont await this from a shiny ipod or iphone its like the did some drug into the package to make you feel just happy.

Btw. is it possible to browse media files just from the folder with the native maemo media player? couse i cant see any realmedia file but if i open it from the datamanager its fully playable with the media player.. btw canola2 shows the folder but as empty if rm files in it..

@Thor i found a good solution to watch hulu its called anchorfree hotspot shield v1.37 its a free vpn tunnel to the good old usa 10gig free per month enought to take a look at hulu or mtv.com it works like a charm from windows systems iam not sure if we could sniff the vpn adress to connect from the n9 too..

What are you talking about bad out of the box experience? The N900 is an absolutely AWESOME out of the box experience. And what's with the argument over Nokias businessplan anyway? I thought this thread was about the Apple iFail?
Clearly this is the worst product from apple in many years. I don't think I've ever read so many disappointed blog posts about an apple product announcement as this one.

The iTampon #1 trending topic on twitter pretty much said it all.

ipod/touch/phone/pad = follow the herd

N900 = Power to the people

Enuff said. To those who know no better the iPhone maybe a fun box of orchestrated tricks but its hardly my swan song.

What's so impressive? Don't get me wrong... I've gotten my hands on the N900, came away impressed because I'm a N810 owner.

But it also suffers from having a forward facing camera, with limited to no use. Nokia could have taken advantage of that. There are no connections to content providers - I'd kill if they had a connection to O'Reilly.

The Skype and IM integration is genius. But beyond that, tell me in your words what's so awesome because from release day to today, besides PR1.01 and PR1.1, what makes it still so awesome to you? I'm curious, take my question as such only please.

Not one argument here. But I'm all about making Nokia better (just clarifying my stance)

I'd put the N900 as impressive. Only for its browser capability, IM and a very few other bits mind.
Theres not much else going on right now tho! Its got a few good tricks but still in dev having sold many thousands of devices by now is probably not sensible for Nokia. Thats another thread tho lol

Thank you for your honesty; and you're right. That's another thread. But I appreciate your answer.

Just wish Nokia would capitalize and have more going on. That was my point.

The iPhone has a front-facing camera? The iPad has one?

You're holding Nokia to a higher standard. which is fine by me, but doesn't support your displeasure with everything N900.

Its funny. We've talked here about modular computing, and some have stated that it wouldn't be successful. Apple does it... ba da bing.. now its successful (marketing-wise anyways).