Very few people here would be willing to shell out the 'real' price of their phone up front, even a cheap one. Few people even know what their phone really costs - it was free or $49.95 or whatever, that's all they know or care. Millions and millions of US users are happy with Sprint, Veri$on and AT&T and their 'deals'. They know nothing about CDMA vs GSM, never heard of a SIM card, and think smartphone = iPhone, period. Paying $650 for a Nokia(?) smartphone and having to switch to T-Mobile to use the 3G sounds totally insane to them. The N900 will be a small niche market in the US, really do next to nothing to expand Nokia's presence here. Elsewhere, where consumers are better informed and the world isn't run by iPhones, I expect it will do pretty well.