Thanks a lot for Your kind words and feedback! BTW, for everyone who likes to support this project, please consider pre-ordering. Of course, I can't guarantee when exactly it will be available, but as a thank-You for monetary supporting this (which already gave a nice boost on project's speed, as two nice guys pre ordered full body replacement, and another nice Maemo user ordered backcover), You'll be able to provide custom logo/extengraved on backcover +, of course, being sure to be amongst first few that receive final body/backcover

Probably won't happen, as it would require complicated tricks or making device wider/longer. Aim of this project isn't to transform N900 into tablet-sized thing with 3.5'' screen - for most people, additional thickness is less of a problem, than a longer/wider device. Also, there is always a possibility to order flat backcover.

Of course, as I've answered to Huz, if someone prepare designs (applicable to linuxcnc) and cover costs, I'll gladly make them on my CNC for those willing to get such different kind of things.

Full sized SD card are much less expensive - especially, at earlier stage - comes first when new capacity is introduced, offer better speeds, live through more cycles, etc... Dual card setup is not possible, it doesn't work that way. You would need 2nd SD interface on N900 itself.

Flat cells that *really* offer advertised capacity are quite hard to get and much more expensive. We're talking about real capacity, not what is put on label. See battery thread for more details.

Converted to 5V is a no-go - losses in efficiency + why the hell would we want that? + if someone really need it for any reason, custom converted can be plugged to batteries itself, even before protecting PCB (again see battery thread and dr_frost_dk mods to add plug connected directly to cells)

Even putting aside fact that it would be completely incompatible with N900's battery interface/charging chip/ etc (= not possible/feasible), it's also not true. You need 3 NiMH to get average voltage of single LiIon, so 3 2500 mAh NimH's would give You *only* 2500 mAh @ 3.6V. Of course I'm putting aside "plentora" of other problems. +, NiMH's are hurt by not going through full charging cycle, ages much quicker, etc, etc... LiIon's in mobile world is actually very reasonable.

Not going to happen - results would be poor without properly considering optic's characteristic on given distance from lens, and I'm no optic's engineer.

It was asked before - of course, it would block (shield from) all signals (including gsm), if done wrong way. Fortunately, we will manage to do it proper way, without loss of signal quality or even boosting it

...and would heat like hell, due to insulating, air-tight layer I would be afraid to use it with anything more than 500 mhz, if encapsulated like that.

/Estel