I'm in the middle. I'm having great success with the battery life - better than some unfortunate others, and I'm a fan of the UI and the phone portion(s) of the phone is much better than say the N900 - I actually do call people.

The screen is great. The feel and build quality is great. Hell, even the silicone sleeve supplied with the unit is great.

Here's my problem with the phone. It's as small as an iPhone - meaning the 3.9 inch screen is rather small compared to my last few options that were 4.1 inch in the least - that's a quarter of an inch difference basically - I personally cannot go any lower. The vkb, while responsive - best use of haptic so far - I've gotten way too used to Android or WP7 where press and hold for extra punctuation is the norm. I really miss that and yes folks... I know that the vkb is incredibly flexible, but so far, I've yet to see those changes on the vkb.

I'm having a problem with Drive. It will not work for me at all. I'm perhaps the only one, but there are other apps that will not work out of the box for some folks. My updates on Twitter are seamless... e-mails though? Not so much. The fact that Android and WP7 both can pull my contacts on just one account yet I had to set up my Gmail account and a Mail for Exchange (MfE) for the very same Gmail account that housed all of my contacts... which I had to gleam from an YouTube account and not from any other official documentation.

It's a phone for tweakers, hackers and people that like to play. But it's not a "hacker phone" like the N900. I don't have Git, Capistrano, or a lot of other stuff. Heck, I don't even have reboot from command line like I did on the N810.

And to be honest, that does bother me. It would bother me if I had paid $700 for a phone that doesn't have an expandable memory, nor a way to shift pictures from camera to Twitter (it doesn't exist) or to push directly to some Drobox, Box.net, Amazon S3, or something another to just get it off of my phone and into the cloud saving me paranoia about space since I have a 16gb - Dropian might just change all of that though. I don't have Flash, nor do I have the trend graph - not the pie chart - on Google Analytics. I have to hard edit the location(s) I've used the AccuWeather app in the conf file. And I'm missing some other things - namely video Skype and an iffy issue with Google Talk... and there's no MSN, AIM, Yahoo either.

The arrows for going back sometimes are up top (browser), sometimes way at the bottom (most other apps) and sometimes I have to tap into the application just to get access to the back button. Swiping exits the app, but that's fine. It's another swipe to go back.

Multi-tasking... N9 has it. Period.

But it's a good phone. Excellent device. Has some rough edges. Will probably never get some killer 3rd party support, it works great, has a few quirks that bother the ever-loving crap out of me, but has a workflow that so far has been way more positive than negative for me. And that's after going from iPhones to Android to N900 (back) to Android to WP7. iOS is out as an option forever for me and I'm a Mac user.

I'm honestly liking my N9. Didn't even expect to - thought I'd be able to come onto these boards, trash this, gain some extra hate points and walk out with both middle fingers extended.

Nope. I'm here, I'm still learning, trying to help like 23+ more people to get a N9 so they can experience what I like and dislike about this phone.