Stephen: I live (if you can call this life; finally made DBA but it's a bad scene).

While I have hope for the N900 as the tablets we've all been enjoying these past few years, I think it's going to fall flat as a cellular offering in Canada due in no small part to the idiocy of the carriers here.

I'm currently in the midst of a 3 year contract with Rogers with an iPhone 3G... Canada-wide MY5 and 6GB of data per month. I also have iPhone visual voicemail (hip hip hooray... or something...)

Now, some of that stuff (noteably the visual voicemail) is iPhone specific... so transferring devices would be odd. (Remember that plan I'm locked into?)

Basically, it seems the carriers are marketing device-specific plans because they're in cahoots with the manufacturers. My only saving grace would be that Rogers would let me tether my iPhone to the N900... which leads me to my next question; why the hell would I buy an N900?

Unless the CRTC discovers fire and leads us out of the luddite depths we're entrenched in, there's not much hope of the device succeeding.

I honestly think the cell radio and hefty pricetag may be it's downfall in the cold white north.