The thing that caused me to return to my N900 was mainly the integration of chat with the entire experience. To be able to be online with 4 different IM services with little effort on my part, to have that integrated into the contacts and conversation applications, to have Skype integrated into the phone application - all this made the experience clean and straightforward. No other phone had this. Now the N9 recreates that, adding the feeds from facebook and twitter. Yes, the Skype video calling is missing. From much of the time my N900's Skype video calling was useless to me - the other party was on a Mac and Skype there wasn't at a revision that could pick up the video. No matter, I used the phone to have voice conversations with nothing to indicate this was other than phone conversation but the small Skype logo. The N9 will give me that, nothing else will without the need for separate applications. My needs, my use cases for my handheld device are specific (impacted by almost two years of using a highly-advanced device, the N900) - the N9 meets them. Specifications, within reason, don't matter. Functionality does - for me.