Thing is, how much "support" do we need? They'll do us some firmware updates which they've already promised and we've got the clever dev community! There's not really that much wrong with it anyway...
N97 - same story as all Nokia mobiles. N95 and N96 were both awful when they started life. They needed multiple firmware updates. My N96 works like a dream now... Its just not MY dream!
Nokia will definitely release a Maemo 6 smartphone/computer next year - they'd fail as a company if they didn't carry on taking the fight to the iphone/smartphone industry...
Exactly. With Nokias track record of support it is the open-source nature of the N900 that makes it so promising.
If Nokia do their usual trick of not delivering what they promised, there is a reasonable chance someone will hack the feature in anyway.
Also I can't see them ditching the N900 quite that soon, as the 5800XM is still getting firmware updates and that has been out a while now.
They are also at serious risk now of of alienating all their fans, as they release buggy after buggy device. Granted, the N900 doesn't sound too bad but people will see its feature-incomplete state is the same as a buggy device. So unless they add the functionality to the N900 people expect (or the community does), who is going to trust them on their next device?
yeah mine's 18 month as well. why is it out the window?
Because I've had my tracker changed to ready for despatch and I ordered 26th Oct on the same contract. So that's not the reason why yours hasn't been changed.
They seriously better not ditch it... release a bleeding edge device then forget about it? This is where nokia always goes wrong... always looking to make another incarnation of the same hardware, forgetting the rest of us...
Why this insistence on five days? If they dispatch them today, surely we will receive them tomorrow? Or are they still planning to send them out in batches as had been suggested (e.g. 200 a day or something like that)?
BTW, what does 'ready to despatch' actually mean? Does it just mean that they have received stock or that they are boxed/packaged and ready to be thrown on the Royal Mail truck?
WTF, it's supposed to be 'Next Day delivery' that's why it costs £3.99. 5 days? That must be for new customers. Have they done the update to shut us up?
Why this insistence on five days? If they dispatch them today, surely we will receive them tomorrow? Or are they still planning to send them out in batches as had been suggested (e.g. 200 a day or something like that)?
BTW, what does 'ready to despatch' actually mean? Does it just mean that they have received stock or that they are boxed/packaged and ready to be thrown on the Royal Mail truck?
The former, if they were boxed and ready to throw on the truck I am pretty sure we would also have been charged.
Why this insistence on five days? If they dispatch them today, surely we will receive them tomorrow? Or are they still planning to send them out in batches as had been suggested (e.g. 200 a day or something like that)?
BTW, what does 'ready to despatch' actually mean? Does it just mean that they have received stock or that they are boxed/packaged and ready to be thrown on the Royal Mail truck?
Probably just giving us something to hope for... And yeah, I think it must be in batches. I mean, they can't be expected to dispatch 100s of phones on one day..?!
