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Hi,

First I'll say that I love my N900

A mobile computer with QWERTY keyboard running Debian GNU/Linux.
It has an open source hildon-desktop, terminal, web browser, media player and all that nice stuff, but the battery life is really killing me.
On a busy day it only last about 8-10 hrs. with dimet screen.

So my question is should I keep my N900 as an internet tablet and buy a new smartphone as my primary phone or just keep my N900 as my primary phone?

And if I should buy a new phone, why should it be the N9?

Nexus Prime

Pros:
Fresh updates from Google direcly
Vanilla Android
Gets fresh updates for a long time (properly 18 months)
The basic system including the UI is open source when released (I think)
A lot of apps available in the Android Market

Cons:
No psychical keyboard
Not developed in the open
Fake multitasking
Strange Linux underneath
Strange Java UI

Nokia N9

Pros:
Real multitasking
X Server
Good Debian GNU/Linux bash underneath

Cons:
No psychical keyboard
Proprietary Swipe UI (difficult to patch by the community for future updates)
Not developed in the open
Already (nearly) dropped by Nokia

What do you think? Please share thoughts