Yep. An announcement. Not final MeeGo product. N900 has something like one year before there will be a MeeGo device. It was announced in September 2009 and shipped in November. So, this rant about 6 months is not that fair IMO. If Nokia decided to roll out official MeeGo support for N900, everybody would have a different tone. For some reason, they opted not to do it which is about only rant I have against Nokia in this MeeGo-issue. But still, I bought my device fully aware of it's limitations and knowing it was an early adopter device which would be replaced by something new rather sooner than later. I never buy anything based on just an assumption that manufacturer would later deliver something that it has not explicitly promised. Not from Nokia, not from any other manufacturer.

I can unerstand peoples anger and frustration, what i don't understand is the need to say goodbye and leave with a nokia you suck and no that will not give this community any good nor the leaver, just some steam being let off. The person is just as disapointed with N900 after posting. Yep some will agree some wont and those who agree will bring some feeling of belonging together and stand unieted against nokia, but your device will not change from nokia sucks and i'm leaving threads. I'm no fanboy and my reason for not liking these threads are simple, negative thoughts will bring more negative thoughts and this thread is just one long proove of that. People slamming on each others heads for some different opinions and slamming nokia for this and that and the community. If you want to leave do it without all the drama.

Yes people have paid real money for this device and many of them did not read up on it aswell and therefor so many nokia sucks and community sucks and everybody sucks threads. Keep in mind that it's just a phone not life and your behavior in here will give some clue what to exspect of you in real life and how you address problems small or big. So please stop the finger pointin and get on with a new device or live with the N900 and get the best out off it while you have it.

Life is pain, then you buy an android.

This story of the "developer phone" and "step 4/5" is misleading. I bought my N900 from Nokia Store after reading some reviews, and I thought this was a fully supported Nokia Phone. I suspected that something was wrong when I didn't see the phone in stores, OVI store coming soon forever, and so on...

of course people who are angry will make a final posting, its human nature. I just thank quole for the easy debian, and am glad I could map the keyboard to my liking. if not for that I'd be looking at android too.

I do think nokia will hit a home run with meego, I just don't know if people will flock to it.

every one of these threads has a "don't let the door hit you on the way out" comment. actually that is the wrong attitude. I like my phone but I could really see why someone who bought it new back when it was filled with hope would be pissed. people also keep saying you were not promised anything from nokia. a device is like a new baby in the family. would you tell your kid, "oh you were not promised an education, stop whining"? would you dump your kid into foster care and then tell them to feel lucky for what they have?

while the other kids were living in a walled garden?

just thank god for easy debian and the nice (though cramped) keyboard.

Well.. I guess this will be my only response to threads such as this now.

So what exactly do you expect us to do about it?

Alot of these people have tried and failed to live with the device (as you can see by their number of posts). If this final grieving process is cathartic give them a small space to be so.

But I think the title could have been less inflammatory.

i totally agree. I thinkit was a real mean trick for nokia to announce meego and simultaneously make all of our fones stop being able to do all the cool stuff that made us buy an n900 in the first place...

Nothing. Just let them vent without saying "developer phone" or "step 4/5".

I don't see the problem with anything OP wrote. The thread title isn't defamatory, nor insulting; it's more of a lament (as others have noted). OP isn't a troll, and has rationally and calmly defended and expanded on his original post in this thread. The "GOODBYE WE WONT MISS YOU HAHA" replies are of no use to me, although those people posting those must have thought there was some value in doing so.

Like many other early adopters, I'm increasingly disappointed with the N900 as a phone (it's the worst Nokia mobile phone I've ever owned) even while I love the other little things it can do (because, yes, it's not a phone, it's a mobile computer... haha). I'm quite willing to spend time tweaking, hacking and googling, but I have limited free time. When I have to wait 3-4 seconds for the phone to re-orient itself when I answer or end a phone call before I know if the call is live or ended (or accidentally rejected it) there is a problem beyond my inability to understand how lucky I am to have paid big bucks for an 'open' phone/OS.

It has been uncomfortable sensation for me these last 6 months realising that if many of the things I am unhappy about had been tied to an Apple or Microsoft product, I would have been ranting very hard about them. I think my Nokia goodwill is paper-thin now - the N900 experience should have been fantastic, but instead has been underwhelming with flashes of brilliance.

Posts from unhappy Nokia owners are free to make and free to read (please don't count hosting cost or electricity). They are also free to not read, thus saving you the only resource which really matters here: time.

Personally, I'm not sure what my next phone will be, even though I've been quite happy with all my Nokias since 2000. The N95 was much easier to live with than the N900 (again, this is hardly a unique opinion). It won't be an iPhone - I'm not quite ready for the rainbows-and-prozac experience (thanks Hangloose for the laugh - best thing about this thread):
...but I'm not sure if it will be a Nokia. I don't know where to go from here, really.