In 2009, I owned several Nokia pearls, E51, E71, and loved the phones. iphone and Android love was raging all around, but I wanted to stay loyal to NOKIA and like the feel of their phones. I did have a lot of issues with E71 and my corporate email, but learned how to live with it. I was hoping that Nokia will respond to iphone and android challenge and come with a game changer. Nokia N8 came out, and it was truly bad. Everything about it was just substandard compared to iphone. I guess the touchscreen Symbian just couldnt do it. I still wanted to stick with NOKIA and saw N900 discussed on gsmarena and saw youtube videos about it, and I really liked the look of it. I liked that it was a mobile computer, with nice keyboard and that you could customize it. I could care less that it was open or closed. I got it and really liked it, but to my dismay it could not handle corporate email, it could only handle one exchange account at a time, and because I could not forward my corporate email, I could not get my calendar to sync with it. That was unfortunately a deal breaker. I did love the lay out, the keyboard, the social integration, and how pretty everything looked. So it became a dumb phone for me. I used it to make calls, IM, skype and browse where strong wifi available, otherwise painfully slow on T mobile 3G. I still have two and use them from time to time as my second phone......