I didn't say "zero testing" . Test enough to be relatively sure no permanent damage is going to happen to the device.. and let it loose.

Yes, there will be bugs. Yes, people seem to forget that and they scream, loudly and obnoxiously I might add, and so yes - I'm pretty sure that's why Nokia does it this way; and as such: we get to wait 2+ months for fixes that every day make people more angry.

But this thread wanted my opinion.. and personally: I believe releasing early, having people report the bugs, and then fixing those bugs quickly is the way I would do it.

Yes, users are annoying and angry and don't usually report bugs in a very "meaningful" manner - but you aren't winning either way... people here aren't exactly quiet about the bugs that are already fixed and just not released, either.

I'd pick better, coherent support and an well spelled-out upgrade path.

No argument there. The ? around the future of the N900 is frustrating.

Going back to topic, I don't think the number of features are always directly proportional to the number of bugs.

Ergo, it's not less bugs vs more features.

That is the point.
Why accumulative bugfixes?
We all "update" appmanager several times a week.
Maemo.org members fixing his projects' bugs as soon as they can.
Nokia leaves buggy OS because they are debugging internal OS... no sense.
Fix a bunch of bugs, give it to us, and so on.
I only can realize they WERE NOT FIXING ANY BUG all this time.

Wrong thinking. "We" update often, but the majority probably not at all.

Stable release = less support = more time to prepare for the next release.

Sorry, I can't understand this (not trolling):
Do you think pr1.1.1 is stable so they have time preparing pr1.2?
I don't think so.
Anyway, after pr1.2, will be "next release" for us, do you think it?
Regards.

I voted "more features" coz with gadgets I like being on the edge...

what is so buggy about the current PR1.1.1?
does the complete os crash/reboot a lot?
do the shipped apps (phone/web/mail) crash a lot?

not at my place, its pretty rock solid software wise, and i do install stuff from extra dev, i have overclocked it to 250-900, so i should be prime candidate for a instabile phone!

look there are quite some performance bugs, thats true even overclocked some things are just slow, modest opening inboxes and more stuff in modest. But also conversations opening the conversation of a new incomming sms why is that soooo slow with the cpu spiking?? it almost doesnt show anything on the screen!,

thats what i hope they fix first everything should be quick to respond, instant feedback. Profile, Profile, Profile....

I'd like to know why the whole phone jams up for a few seconds when an SMS is received.. You can be typing away in a conversation and listening to music and then it locks, goes silent for a couple of seconds and then the yellow swooshing box appears and it releases.. Was it such a majorly intensive task to render the box?

On topic, I'd vote neither - for me the device doesnt have many bugs, other than the on screen keyboard being useless in the internal browser because it inserts text in a completely messed up order.. And it has most of the features I want out of a phone.. I find the bugs I do run into as annoying as the missing features I run into

I'd settle for Nokia being more interactive and vocal within the community, fewer questions of "why isnt this.." or "when will that.."