in 2005 i eventually decided to put my trustworthy 7650 to rest
the headset connector was building up some sort of static & the keys were starting to act up randomly

it happened that the 770 was the hot new thing coming & i was very interested in it, but alas it didn't have the GSM function and was thus not available with a contract.
the fact that Wi-Fi was still very uncommon (even in homes) around where i was living made it barely available at all, as a matter of fact

back then i didn't know the 1st thing about Maemo and even though i had been keeping more or less up to date with SuSE respectively openSUSE and started to have a permanent install around that time (on a 4 hard disc tower, next to 2k3 as primary ) the idea of putting anything but Symbian on a "mobile" device (or XP on a lappy) seemed... odd at best

ended up taking a 7710 but replaced it with a 1100 before the end of the contract as it was utterly unusable

started to visit Maemo a few weeks after i got my N900 (nearly 2 years ago) but didn't post much (if at all) until about a year ago, not long after Flopocalypse

as the N900 is available again with 2 years NOKIA warranty (thus presumably new (?)) i'll continue to use it, buy a new one if the two i already have (original 2 years old and another bought end of last year (new)) should have any (hw) problem
knock knock knock

i wonder in how far the renewed availability of the N900 is to have an offer with a physical keyboard.
maybe we'll get a decent successor eventually?