Personally I'm going for the Samsung Galaxy Note as:

- it hasn't HW keyboard but its size compensates for a good virtual keyboard

- it has USB OTG (I'll be able to connect my Xbox 360 controller and play with it! ^^).

- it has better support, surely it won't have a community as great as this, but I'm tired of seeing how every commercial app (not necessarily a paid app) can't be used on my N900.

- it sure doesn't have terminal and some really advanced tools as the N900 does, but, getting real, do I need such advantages in such an outdated HW as the N900 has? because yes, perhaps I can do these much things in the N900, but I don't think they're practical. Name really practical apps the N900 has that Android hasn't. Viceversa is probably easeir.

- Navigation, as good as it was on the N900 on its day, has gone amazingly slow on it. Full webpages with flash are unnavegable, and videos on the web completely unwatchable. Surfing with the Note and its 1280*800 screen should be awesome, and I think that it can also show full webpages, and it should have a PC-navigation-like as the N900 does (correct me if I'm wrong).

- You can overclock the N900, but it rarely surpasses the 900 MHz clock, which is still very outdated; and the main grudge on the phone is the incredible lack of RAM.

- FM radio on the N900 sucks. I've tried different apps for it but every one sucks anyway. I'll miss the FM transmitter though, but I don't see myself using that feature anymore (nowadays almost every car radio has a line-in or an USB-in port).

- Sure the N900 was a great communication device on its day, but nowadays no Whatsapp and other social network support makes it old. NITdroid isn't a solution as rebooting the phone and getting no voice calls isn't supposed to be how the N900 works. At least it doesn't work for me.

- We were promised video calls for N900, but Skype is way laggy and really eats the phone's CPU and battery. Video calls on the Galaxy Note work flawless.

- The mail client, microb, is laggy. I don't know if the Android client is much better but I hope so.

- Twitter support is awful. There's no useful twitter application that can run in the background and don't make your phone a mess and waaaay slower. For me the only usable app is Tweego, yet it doesn't have all the options I'd desire, like the ones on Twimgo.

- The camera ISN'T good. Really. I don't think Carl Zeiss branding or the slide cover are worth for anything. Photos are low-quality, as in every phone, and videos are awful. At least upgrading the phone I'll get better video recording for sure.

- Two of my favorite apps on the N900 that didn't exist for other phones were SeriesFinale and gPodder. Now there are clones of SeriesFinale everywhere and there are other podcast clients for Android which let you do streaming.

- While 800*480 is a good res for almost anything, it's getting old and not everything is viewable anymore. Also, document (PDF) reading and other uses aren't suited for such a small screen as the one on the N900, as good as its resolution is.

- The battery on my N900 doesn't last an entire day. Hopefully the 2500 mAh on the Note's will.


That's pretty much it, please correct me if I'm wrong in anything (I'm sure I'll be somewhere), my conclusion is that the N900 was an extraordinary phone, but it's gone old and we should move on.