Originally Posted by Milhouse

There will always be someone who buys the current device a few weeks before it's replaced by the latest and greatest - unfortunately that person is you tubbycricket and I think you're just p1ssed that you fall into that category, it happens to us all at least once.

Without a doubt, your N800 will be supported for the next two major OS releases (Maemo 4 and Maemo 5, Chinook and Diablo, OS 2008 and OS 2009) and you will be able to take advantage of most if not all of the future planned services and software.

While I'm a little surprised the N800 is being superceeded within 12 months, concrete assurances have been given that it will receive continued support and I fully expect the life cycle for future Nokia Internet Tablets to reduce as competition increases and more inovative devices appear from other manufacturers. Virtually every consumer electronics device receives a 1 year refresh, computing devices even more quickly than that. The lifespan of the Nokia Tablets is not unreasonable as they will receive continued support.

If you're not happy with the N800 because it's been (or is about to be) superceeded (with what nobody knows!) perhaps the N800 wasn't the right device for you in the first place?

Originally Posted by TA-t3

Oh come on. Nokia _did_ screw up with the 770->N800 transition, but there's no real reason they need to repeat that mistake. As I, and others, pointed out at the time, Palm managed to come out with new devices year after year and _all_ the old devices could still be used with 99.9% of the new software that came out (the exception was arm-specific software like e.g. TomTom navigatior, which would work only on certain PalmOS version 5 devices. In fact the rest (the 99.9%) still continues to run on _both_ m68k-based as well as arm-based devices, how about that for a platform change?)

Palm used to churn out a couple of new models every year, sometimes twice a year. Definitely at a higher rate than Nokia so far. There are still between 20,000 and 30,000 applications available for devices several (not to say _many_) years old.

Nokia is (because of the open nature of the software) in an even better position to do this right. After the 770->N800 mini-fiasco they stated that they will. If they follow up on that promise then there's no real reason why they couldn't in principle come out with new models all the time, without screwing the user base.

What I'm saying is, let's wait for the new device and see what happens. Only then should we cast judgement.

Originally Posted by tubbycricket

Still stinks that the N800 is being relegated this soon.

Originally Posted by tubbycricket

[...] Still stinks that the N800 is being relegated this soon.

Originally Posted by tubbycricket

Having a Treo 650 enables me to understand your position very clearly. But the Palm products were very successful and mainstream as well, even non-professionals can be seen carrying Treos and such. Only time will tell if Nokia can introduce IT to the masses with new products without alienating their initial consumer base. I don't have blind faith, so I will wait and see if this IT stuff will take off or not. Still stinks that the N800 is being relegated this soon.