My plan is to wait out the early adopters, and see what it takes to unlock the device, which is my right as an American consumer. I dont think it will be that hard to accomplish. I dont plan on leaving AT&T, as I get a business discount on hardware and services, but if they balk at the device I will be using, then they lose the business. I really dont have any other loyalty to them.

i got the bold 1) because my g/f wanted it and she is not allowed to "out geek" me. 2) motorola milked the RAZR too long (had 3 of them, good phone but got long in the tooth). 3) it has the OMAP 34xx processor. 4) supports SDHC. 5) supports A2DP.

there are several aspects of the bold that i think nokia should pay attention to.

firstly, like i commented before - the contacts app on the bold. no matter what kind of communication type you define for a contact, using that means natively is a click or two away.

second, and a big kudos to RIM for this one... a firewall that allows me to reject specific types of messaging. the phone can be configured to allow or deny SMS, MMS, PIN (for Blackberry Messenger or BBM), Blackberry Internet Service (cellular internet service) , and Enterprise Mail (Exchange eMail, if you attach to a Blackberry Enterprise Server or BES). Since i dont have a texting plan, i only allow PIN and Blackberry Internet Service. This prevents me from paying for "drive-by" and advertising texts.

Aside from those couple of notes, i expect the n900 to be more of what i want in terms of capability and functionality.