hmm... I don't seem to fully get this.

Anyway, just now I had an idea. Releasing a WP7 phone that's able to compete especially price-wise with the other companies isn't such a bad idea. Releasing an almost-high-end WP7 phone (or maybe Android but this could be a bad idea in the end) with a very attractive price at the same time as the cutting-edge ultra-high-end (...) N9 may psychologically burn the N9/meego into the brains of the iphone/android/wp7 users. They'd know that Nokia has something competing with all the other mainstream high-end phones and something that has to be even better, which makes it much more tempting.

The n900 in comparison was the single high-end phone in its time from Nokia and it was competing with iOS and co. and lost because it simply wasn't iOS or Android, but something "strange" that doesn't even have an oh-so-good capacitive screen and portrait mode.

With an Nokia WP7 or Android phone in petto to compete with the other manufacturers phones, it would be more obvious to everyone that the N9 isn't built to compete but built to stand above them all and therefore be very tempting for people wanting something really good and really high-end (and not just for the Linux geeks like it was for the n900).