Sorry if this sounds harsh, but those people deserve to have their privacy taken away from them.
If you place the convenience of swimming with the masses above your human rights then this is the price you have to pay.

I know it's an ugly business and I'm guilty too in other areas of life, but my privacy is something I'm not willing to sacrifice just to be able to have some small talk with my friends about their iphones.

btw: Releasing the Neo900 last year would have been utopic. And it would have been as outdated then as it would be today or in three years. It should have been released five years ago.
There's no way it's ever going to compete with what we call a smartphone today. So there's no point in even sending it into this competition.


edit:
On a more constructive note, you might find the DragonBox Pyra [1] more appealing:
- bigger screen with higher resolution
- faster CPU, with even potentially future upgrades
- a lot more storage
- probably a better keyboard
- likely a better "real linux" terminal

What it will not be is a better smartphone than the Neo900. It's just too bulky to even remotely fit into that category.


[1] http://pyra-handheld.com/specs.html