well I've used the hero its a amazing device but android is no media power house and at its current rate it's a infant maybe a year from now it will be in its prime. As far as the iphone i only had the ipod touch and from my experience it was okay. I like the physically keyboard on the n900 i can see myself using this like i did my n95 8gb (and dearly miss it). I went out to Miami and recorded my cousin full freestyle (hip hop) session a hour long, went back to the hotel and uploaded it. I had sonic 1, 2 , 3 and Mario games playing them on the train because i had a physically keypad loved it. tethering, skype , accelerometer games, plus apps from third party developers and with a major developer base. This device will explode and i feel it you have maemo 5 being the first maemo cellular device so data connection on the go is possible. If i had a iphone and hero I'd damn sure sell it lol. One thing for sure apple will make a better iphone in may next year and the hero will be replaced knowing HTC shoot look at engadget.com they already talking about a HTC Android HD.