My initial reaction to the "N900" specs was sceptical, the form factor didn't seem to meet the needs of tablet users or phone users.

But interestingly enough, I had been considering the idea of getting an android based phone to finally converge my phone tablet, and so really, the n900 spec actually steps in the right direction. I'd prefer the screen to be larger of course, but if is is similar to the iphone screen in physical size, it will be tolerable.

Because what I want more than anything is an open platform, maemo has inspired all kinds of creativity that symbian et al because of its open nature. Far better than having to write goddamn java on android. Or objective C on iphone once jailbroken.

The problem with the Communicator comparison is that symbian is a phone OS first, and a general purpose OS second. With maemo it is the other way around, and so the fact that it works well on one tells us little about telephone performance on the other.

I am staying out of the 1000 post specs leak thread as it seems to have become a life form of its own. Self-sustaining.

But damn if the form factor is right, then this is going to be yet another clunky phone from Nokia, and while I am sick of carrying two devices around, one BIG one doesn't make up for it too well. But I will be more than happy to not have to manually initiate a tethered bluetooth session via my phone to get internet access.

But all this requires that the telephoney works flawlessly.