Well, here I am awaiting my neo900 and my last n900 (I have 4) has finally gone down with the 'All Telephony functions...' problem.
While I am waiting for my neo900 I am considering, hopefully short term replacement. I am totally ignorant of the smartphone market. Indeed, the only ones I have owned, or even handled have been n900's. But, I am an ex-systems programmer, experience in unix, linux etc...

What I am looking for is a phone that I can at least open a terminal on, write some scripts etc and log on to my servers via ssh and also do some port forwarding etc. Also run VLC media player is a must have. I guess I am looking at Android.

There should be something out there, I can even do that sort of stuff on my wife's Kindle!!

Experienced advice sought please.