On of the big tech letdowns in my life. I was excited about the N900, but to young to really drop that amount of cash on a new fancy phone and I didn't want to buy the first product of the platform.
But then it just sort of died. There was one more release but by then it was clear where it was going. It wasn't even released widely.
It wasn’t the end, the N9 was the more refined and frankly quite brilliant follow up. Unfortunately they failed to launch it in any major markets because they’d pivoted to Windows.
Had to ship mine from Australia. For me when it launched it was the best phone you could buy. Apple caught up quick though.
I'm not sure if I'd call a phone that served me well for a decade a "letdown". There were hardly any phones around worth switching to from N900 for this whole time.
Yes. That just shows how promising it was. But if you only bring out an initial modal and then basically never follow it up, you are simply not competing against competitors who bring out new hard-ware and soft-ware every year and also do hardware-software co-design.
Its nice that it served you personally, but as a platform it was a gigantic bust.
...which didn't matter at all because the community has been doing a pretty good job with CSSU and it was only several years later when it started to truly show its age.
But then it just sort of died. There was one more release but by then it was clear where it was going. It wasn't even released widely.
Such a sad end.