Interesting thread!

Incidentally, I sold my A4000 for parts in 2004 and built my first Windows PC. And it was only last year that I parted with my A500. ImageFX and Octamed were pretty cool.

The N900 feels much like that Amiga experience. Linux has been a bit of a learning curve, but much more related to the functionality of the Amiga rather than my PC experience.

I tried the Note at the store to see what it would be like. I wanted to use the stylus to see how it would compare... draw a quick doodle, navigate around a bit... take a few pictures. I put it down after a few minutes. It felt clunky and unintuitive.

I've since picked up an E7 mostly for the keyboard. Symbian Belle is OK. I only use my E7 for work related texting and emailing, hence the keyboard, and it's fairly good for these things. A lot of granular stuff is missing like finer details for setting up and configuring email accounts.

I'm still using the N900 as my main phone because of its computer-like functionality. I completely take the multi-tasking for granted, and I heavily rely on MicroB for desktop web browsing. I find the E7 useless for my browsing needs even with Opera.

Looks like I'll be with the N900 for a while yet. Now that the price of the 808 is coming down I'd like to try out the audio and image capture functions. Maybe a good hardware keyboard will come out one day again...