could we please stop this right now? I want this thread to stay a friendly place.

Many thanks!

[edit] pretty much all of the points in last 20some posts have been covered/answered in this very thread. Please use the forum's search function to find out before iterating it again while introducing new incorrect assumptions. Most been correct but some statements sounded ambiguous at best. Yes there's a gap somwhere from maybe 400 to 2000 N900 "mech part" sets, where sourcing N900 gets difficult and producing new parts is not economically feasible yet.. Again, please see this very thread, it been discussed comprehensively. For new Industrial Design with possibly beter hw see STEP2, which always been the (surprisingly named) planned next step after Neo900, with an option for Neo900 owners to trade in their device for a substantial rebate on next device (though I guess few will really want to do that ;-D )

/j