Same here, though I was lusting after the clamshell Zaurus models at the time (but I couldn't afford to pay what seemed like a first class return flight to Japan to buy an imported one). My first mobile phone purchase was a Neo1973, but that was mostly a case of http://fsmsh.com/3053. I've bought a couple more since, primarily for use as modems, but I still hate the whole phone concept.

The irony is that back in May 2005 I had somehow ended up doing (what today would be called) devops for a bunch of SymbianOS projects, so as you can imagine Nokia was The Enemy (they even had some crazy "Platform Security" ideas back in those days too).

Still, my jaw dropped when I read the Maemo/770/Linux patent grant announcements and I immediately knew I had to have a 770 (which I ordered the day it was launched).

A GNOME, large screen, Internet-connected but non-phone handheld computer was an amazing vision, for which I will always be grateful. Pity it only lasted 3 years :-(