One of the big challenges is that, unlike the netbook/tablet builds which have had Intel to support driver development for their harware/chipsets, providing rapid ability to deploy onto existing hardware platforms (many of which are the same/alike), the handset builds are only really available for a small amount of devices, thanks to proprietory drivers and hardware. as a result, there isn't the "market" to entice developer support and the UI supplied with the vanilla handset UX builds is very basic. the design of the UI is pretty straight forward and allows for some big changes without a massive amount of code. what we need is some of the talented theme makers here at TMO to dedicate some time to contribute to the n900DE project. "prettying" up the UI will go a long way to enticing more people to contribute, if only, like me, as testers/bug reporters. those who have already developed qt apps for fremantle could look at doing builds of their stable stuff for Meego, which in turn will provde enhancement for the project, leaving the N900 Dev team to focus on getting the base build 100% solid. as an aside, i'm using one of the latest images on my N900 as a daily phone (restricted, of course!) and the phone app is more responsive than the fremantle debacle....