I am well aware of the other Maemo Powered tablets - Like I said I DID MY RESEARCH.

I even ran Mer in a VB before I purchased the N900 from the Nokia Store.

The point of @guber99 NOT doing his research before purchasing the phone was proven WAY before me and you stayed this little sub-thread - Nokia didn't say this phone supports Microsoft Exchange Email and Calender Sync - For Christ's Sake it is a Linux Powered Device!!!!

That is like buying an Apple Powerbook and then getting mad when it doesn't run windows apps.

Nokia is simply compling with the European directive for microUSB charger. I can change a tip on a multi charger and achieve the same. I think you will find the same issue occurs with newer Blackberry devices too.

I was at my brother's house and my N900 died . . . lucky his Boost Mobile Motorola uses the same charge!!!!

I wish that it was the STANDARD mini USB but I guess the microUSB will become more wide spread in the future.

Sorry to burst your bubble but you are not entirely correct on this one. I spent literally about 5 minutes with Wikipedia checking this and found the answer before the N900 was even released. Nokia also answered my email the same day. As both the web and email seem to be standard tools on the internet I am puzzled as to how you failed to find a simple solution.

You're still missing the point, mrebanza.

It's a lot more complicated than enabling application catalogs, installing rootsh, making sure apps are optified, and ultimately does it fit into your lifestyle.

Guber99, albeit rather annoyingly; has a true issue with provisioning and MS Exchange. Provisioning needs to have some combination, in most deployments, to allow a device to synchronize to that company's MS Exchange mail server. If you're not the MS Exchange admin, it's highly doubtful that the company will change their policies for one device. Especially when other devices exist that will work "out of the box".

There's no setting, there's no command line, there's not a patch; there's not a hack, there's not... much of anything at this very moment to support that. To go along with that potentially frustrating situation; there's zero documentation before he purchased it - or after for that matter outside of these forums and his own findings - that support the fact that the N900 doesn't support certain provisioning types/limits/criteria, if at all (well, that's been stated in this thread or another at least a couple of times though).

Simply put, even if he had done his homework; he would still be stuck with a phone that does not support his work e-mail.

I'm glossing over a lot, ignoring some complaints (ok, a lot of the complaints) and yet that's the core of his situation.

Human Penguin is another user here that's having a problem with getting his USB connector fixed. Nokia policies say one thing, Vodafone UK is refusing to touch the thing... and he's had at least two or three different statements and he's in limbo not sure if his phone will be fixed or not; and that comes after the fact that it's been unofficially stated that the problem has been addressed. Apparently from the initial 300 that went out to a few of the first batch of N900's that were considered "production", the problem persists. To what extent... nobody from Nokia has established that yet.

That's yet another situation where doing your research would have led you to believe something other than what people are dealing with. In this case, "it was solved"... apparently it wasn't. It's not resolved, the statement(s) that Nokia will or will not fix it, consider it a manufacturing problem... that's up in the air.

The final thing... for me at least, is that despite doing research; there is no definitive answer for whether or not the N900 will receive Maemo 6 on it, in a full form, or not. That also means that Skype and other third party apps - much like they were left on the N810 - might get one, perhaps two upgrades before the Maemo 6 device debuts later this year.

That part... if you're doing your research; will not be resolved. Those things; and many more are important to people making a decision. And there's no clear answer(s), no clear way to get those things answered other than patience.

And that's what I've decided to do. I'll not budge until I have each and every answer to my concerns answered. Not a moment before.

The whole "go somewhere else" mentality has got to go... you, or myself, do not control, own, nor dictate who stays, goes, or whatever should happen whilst here. Instead, we can get upset about petty stuff - I allowed myself a rant earlier - or we can remain civil, try to actually add to the community, document those grievances, when their answered, add them to the wiki. If it's a good idea, create a Brainstorm. And if it's a grievance, stop acting like it's the end of the damn world - by the person complaining and the people complaining about the complaining.

I still do not have my proof that some documentation around certain grievances just don't exist nor are they addressed fully. And screaming, yelling, calling people trolls... doesn't solve a thing either.

Maybe the US market being non-standard and of less interest than the rest of the world has something to do with it? Funnily enough the whole world doesn't revolve around the USA!

Bootcamp, VMWare Fusion and Parallels all facilitate that. I'd pick a better analogy.

How did I know you were going to say that?

You lost this and several other arguements the other day on here but continue to repost the same rubbish claiming that you aren't ranting. Maybe Nokia don't want to be big in the USA due to people such as yourself.

So does that mean that you can't read MS Exchange e-mail even on a Linux Desktop Computer????