With Nokia’s new, big push of the Linux/Maemo-based N900 (see here:  http://conversations.nokia.com/   ) at the upcoming Nokia World 09, and their virtual silence in the face of all the complaints about the N97, does anyone else get the feeling that after last December’s announcement of the N97 and the euphoria it generated, the cold, hard facts of building a 32G device on a small processor with Touch features grafted onto a Symbian S60 system gave them second thoughts? That they pushed it out the door last June unready so they could clear the deck for the new system? Look at the first update that came within two weeks of the initial launch. The update itself was dated prior to the launch. The latest update encompasses about a dozen minor fixes. Smallest changelog in Nokia history I read somewhere.    I’m **bleep** because I need functionality between my N97 and my Mac especially with Contacts and Calendars and that isn’t happening…more than two months after I bought my N97 on the day of launch. It’s supposed to be a Smartphone, dummies.   Some have said the firmware was broken or the USB standards were futzed up so synching cannot be done. But we find other problems, too, in Photos and Music and Contacts. Maybe S60 or the processor just can’t handle 32G. Whatever the issues, I’m getting the feeling that this N97 was pushed out the door with very little support, so they can focus on the "new flagship" – the N900. Just a few months ago, the N97 was touted by Nokia as "The Flagship".   I hope some folks (reporters/bloggers) who actually attend Nokia World 09 ask some hard questions about the lack of  support for the problems N97 early adopters have encountered and why anyone should have more confidence in the readiness of the new flagship.   Nokia needs to do some serious customer satisfaction work in the N97 arena. We paid a lot of money for a phone that seems to already be heading off Nokia’s radar. A system upgrade would be a start. Adding the N97 to the "Comes with Music" program would help pay back in kind a lot of the time that we have spent endlessly tweeking, re-starting and "restoring to factory settings" to get the whole mess working correctly. Offering a turn-in/replacement credit/upgrade to the new N900 would be another.   Nokia, if you are listening…most of us here like you and like your stuff. We’ve been buying Nokia for years. But please don’t **bleep** on our head and tell it’s just a bit of rain.