Hi.

I read through the first 31 pages of this thread, before I skipped to the end, because my opinion here was totally underrepresented on the 31 pages and I think it needs to be represented.

Most of you seems to think about the smaller screen as small and the N900 as a crippled N810. There is not a one person outside this forum that would call a LCD, any LCD, with a 800x480 resolution small. We all have been spoiled by the N810 [or older models] and, despite the failing sales, expect the N900 to be an improvement over that.

I own a N810 myself, and I can certainly see that a smaller screen will be worse in some cases, most specially for eBooks.

However.

Change focus for a minute. Put the beloved tablet aside and look at the market. Nokia still sell N810 and it is still pretty much a market leader in the underdeveloped market. But there's a big market out there where they suck. And that is on high resolution smart phones. It's a disaster that Nokia doesn't make anything that can compete with HTC in stats.

Edit: Paragraph removed (about N series) that distracted from the point. Also, it was wrong.

Nokia needs the N900 to be a phone. They are totally behind on touch smartphones. Someone mentioned the 5800. How can the screen on the 5800 or the N97 even compare to the screens of the HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Pro2 or HTC Diamond2? It cannot! The top models from Nokia are just not good enough, screen wise.

Enter the N900 which more than anything is, as said here, the N97 killer. More open OS than N97 and HTC. Much, much better screen than the N97 and on par with HTC. And an already exisiting software base.

I personally have been sick at going through the internet connection sharing ritual between my N810 and my HP Ipaq 514. It takes me a couple of minutes to get online and I have to click around on two devices. So sick that I look at other options. I would love to have internal GSM/3G on the N810. I want an all-in-one device. I have been looking at the 5800. I have been looking at the N97. Both are just not up to HTC standards. I have been seriously considering the Diamond2. The Diamond2 is 800x480 pixels on a SMALLER SCREEN than the N900.

Guys, the N900 isn't an improved N810, we can all agree on that.

But it seems to me it is the VERY BEST HIGH RESOLUTION SMART PHONE on the market.

Nokia has done the right thing. I think they have a killer product here. The N810 isn't. The N810 is a very neat product for us few. But the N900 has potential to be the #1 smartphone on the market.

Still, I would really love to have Nokia compete with the Kindle. But, you know. Hardly anybody buys the Kindle either.