The Good (from things I've asked for):

• It's a PHONE, with voice and SMS!
• It's a T-Mobile 3G phone (it's a PHONE!!! that runs MAEMO!!!!)
• A NIT with a respectable photo camera!!!
• Base memory of 32GB!!!
• Did I mention Nokia Maemo Phone!!?!?!

The Bad:

• 4.3"x2.4" device!? with a 3.5" screen? Didn't all of the maemo phone advocates all say they didn't want to shrink the size? What's Nokia smoking here?
• 3 row keyboard ... bleh. We wanted MORE keys, not less. 5 rows... not 4, not 3. 4 row keyboards are bad enough, but 3 row keyboards are ATROCIOUS. Full qwerty, with dedicated number keys. Nothing less.
• They have two great designs right now (the N97 and today's leak of the Mako), but this one looks VERY plain, and downright disappointing. Why couldn't they have gone with a design like the N97 or Mako? ... and especially with a tilt screen like the N97.

So much to be excited about ... so much to be disappointed about.

I really would have preferred to see a giant (meaning "N810 size") N97 or Mako, with 5 row keyboard. The Mako, with a 4.1" tilt screen, 5 row keyboard, retaining its dpad and button cluster on the face, and running Maemo ... THAT would have been a SEXY beast. Though, really, even just the Mako and/or N97, the size they are, with Maemo, would look MUCH nicer than this thing. This thing just looks SO plain.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes. Will there ALSO be a 4.1" screen tablet (with or without phone functionality)? What about the rumors of a Maemo netbook? Will there be AT&T versions of these devices as well?

(for those who didn't see the Mako, it was on Engadget and Engadget Mobile)

Will I buy it? There's a good chance I will, because I don't want to see a Maemo phone fail. I want this to be the first of several Maemo phones from Nokia. But, given what other things Nokia is releasing right now, I think they could have done better with their first Maemo phone. A LOT better than what we see in that rendering (it's a rendering, right?). If I do buy it, I will likely still harp for something much better.