On the other hand, back at when we speculated if it'd be a phone or not, I for one thought that Maemo 4 didn't bode well for a phone OS. With no phone functionality, no PIM, no anything that might make it an overlapping product with existing Nokia phones. I think for a "first phone", they did okay. There were lots of phone centric things that had to be designed from scratch. Which they do not have to do with Symbian phones.
That's pretty much how I saw it. Especially when I asked (I think) Bundyo whether there was a unique ringtone per caller feature and there wasn't any.