Of course, everyone's expectation differ - but when discussing device's feasibility, we can skip that, or any point would be moot one (after all, everything may be suitable for someone). When I wrote "more important", I thought about it as "more important for device's success", thats why no "for me bit".

Why? Because phone functionality can be found on gazillion of devices, while (real) desktop-PC-in-pocket is close to non-existent category. Here is a niche for Pyra. IMO - even outside of my personal sentiments - in direct comparison with Pyra, device like Neo900 (if lacking major parts of "desktop pc in pocket") may, at the end of a day, interest people fanatically attached to Hildon-like experience for mobile computing (aka small percent of Maemo users), and thats about it. Pyta gets everything else, which is, like, 99,99% of "geeky" audience?

Funny enough, I considered myself "fanatically attached to Hildon-way of doing mobile computing" not so long ago. Nowadays, I still think that Hildonesque have nice appeal and some great ideas in it, but the more I learn about customizing window managers and lightweight desktop environments (like LXDE) to my liking/special needs, the less and less need for Hildon I see. Certainly, not enough to justify hooping through so many fire loops, like porting Fremantle to anything non-Nokia require, objectively.

Going back to my personal preferences - gimme good power-saving (including really nicely used sleep states of CPU, like on N900), complete control over radio's behavior, etc, and I can easily shrug Hildon off. Time better spent on customizing openbox/LXDE and filling bugs/feature requests where appropriate (also to enhance mobile experience), than desperately trying to keep Fremantle/Hildon from falling apart due to old age (which, incidentally, is starting to fail compiling even basic CLI programs, due to outdated... Everything).

/Estel

Ps.

I'm aware that all possible the N900-like hardware projects should also allow other OS'es than Fremantle, but I can't imagine anyone buying it over Pyra for running something OTHER than FreEmantle on it. Unless one is buying both devices "for the love of projects", but it hardly counts as sustainable customers base, IMO.