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I remember the OP's other thread. Around that time my contract was up, my n900's usb port was getting loose...I made a hasty decision. 4S or lumia 900.

I've never set my n900 down, it's not with me as often as it once was but often enough to miss it when I don't have it.
The n900 knows how to do contacts correctly and trusts me to manage them. It doesn't try to upload them to the cloud or an exchange server and mix them with others and get confused in the process.
My n900 also allows me to do 20 different things I can't do on an iphone, period.

The iphone on the other hand is connected to the modern world. I can use banking apps or upload coupons to my grocery store's loyalty card to save me money. Or use ebay and paypal with ease.
I can control my Roku, or watch CNN and TED. I can listen to music from tons of services.
Getting recipes, tracking my health and exercise is a snap.
I can play lots of silly little games with people all over the world, not just the ones who know their way around terminal.
Driving anywhere is a joy with an officially supported Waze app. I'm happy to use Teamviewer instead of messing around with VNC, SHH and port forwarding.


Which kind of leads me into Jailbreaking. I found some programs that block UUID uploads and some adblockers. They have kismet too. Did I mention most of these apps crash or cause your non Cydia apps to crash? Good thing they also have crash reporting and debugging tools in the repo. Mostly Cydia is just notification hacks, themes and ringtones. Ugh! I've been reading about jailbreaking for years, and to see it in action it is a disappointment. Even Apple's underground counterculture is all hype and little substance.

I would describe my n900 as a tool or my computer, and I would describe my iphone as a "lifestyle assistant" or toy. As long as you use both devices for their strengths, they coexist pretty well.
 

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