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I just want to thank everyone SO MUCH! This has been super informative! Some of this news is kind of saddening and kind of weird to me. It's weird that a few users are ragging on the screen when I've almost unanimously heard that the screen was an absolute beauty, with the exception of the biggest of screen snobs who complained about the whole Pentile thing.

I am a bit surprised to hear that Nokia added more limitations instead of opening things up a bit more. I'm a bit confused on the reasoning, but then again, I'm no programmer. Maybe I'll be waiting for a steep price drop before looking at buying this thing after all...

The most bittersweet thing to me about the N900 was the browser. It was was so robust, but it just seems to take an eternity to actually get up and running or open new links, to the point I avoid using it when possible. Plus, the lack of text wrapping made lots of panning and zooming necessary, which was a bit cumbersome. Opera was a great improvement on this, but the compatibility(with something even as popular as Facebook) was moderately terrible. Plus, no Flash is kind of the last nail in the coffin. Firefox was massively underwhelming because it had all the same problems as MicroB, but it seemed even slower, no gesture zoom, and no Flash support. I'm just sad to hear that it seems as if the browser has only gotten worse.

I didn't even think about how annoying the lack of a physical keyboard could be when you're using things like Terminal(using up or down to shuffle through previous commands is extremely useful) and even worse when you can't get a consistent copy and paste command to assist you.

This has all been extremely helpful, guys! Definitely keep the comments coming and I'll keep doing some investigating of my own.
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