Yes, having MMS on a feature phone is important, but the N900 isn't a feature phone with limited resources. . We prioritized our resources to have brilliant multitasking of the frequent use cases. You can share photos easily to the Internet or by email. Implementing MMS would have meant dragging the ancient WAP 1.2.1 standard used for the push notificatiom to a modern computer OS in times when our target audience wants to share high quality images to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Ovi and so on. MMS receipt would maybe gotten us far enough, so others can send her photo to you, but we decided to put our R&D into other areas. I hope consumers will forgive us for the time being.

Thx. I was ready to buy the N900, but I think I'll wait for the e900.

Gotta ask our colleagues in Berlin...

Ho ho, already information about the first update of Maemo 5?

Little question:
OVI cards can be downloaded from the N900 or must go through a PC software?

More specifically, can we use all functionality of the N900 without Windows on our PC?

Let us ship first the first sw and then let's talk about the update, okay?

OVI cards? I guess I should know what that is?! Anyway, my contacts from OVI are automatically synched into my contactbook on my N900 once I entered my IM profile

I don't use my PC for anythng else than moving files. Everything else comes over the air: email, calendar, sw updates, etc. But yes, for those that want to synch calendar with PC Suite, they can have it.

Good luck waiting for that one! ;-) I wouldn't, if I were you.

Let us ship first the first sw and then let's talk about the update, okay?

OVI cards? I guess I should know what that is?! Anyway, my contacts from OVI are automatically synched into my contactbook on my N900 once I entered my IM profile

I don't use my PC for anythng else than moving files. Everything else comes over the air: email, calendar, sw updates, etc. But yes, for those that want to synch calendar with PC Suite, they can have it.

Now I'll get some sleep. Gotta be fresh for next week's live show to analyst and bloggers.

Yes, having MMS on a feature phone is important, but the N900 isn't a feature phone with limited resources. . We prioritized our resources to have brilliant multitasking of the frequent use cases. You can share photos easily to the Internet or by email. Implementing MMS would have meant dragging the ancient WAP 1.2.1 standard used for the push notificatiom to a modern computer OS in times when our target audience wants to share high quality images to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Ovi and so on. MMS receipt would maybe gotten us far enough, so others can send her photo to you, but we decided to put our R&D into other areas. I hope consumers will forgive us for the time being.

Well, the guys in the Engadget podcast WERE clueless. I can understand the 'guys joking around', and 'good cop, bad cop' approach but making a tech podcast talking about a device with this level of informedness is just embarrassing.

I don't use my PC for anythng else than moving files. Everything else comes over the air: email, calendar, sw updates, etc. But yes, for those that want to synch calendar with PC Suite, they can have it.