I am, and can't wait. I'm tired of RIM's slow system. They're awesome at push email, but not at IM, or graphical user interfaces. I have had the bold for 9 months, the storm 2 months, the curve 8300 for 18 months, the pearl 8100 for 2 months, the 8800 for 2 weeks, the Iphone 3g for 2 months (to win a bet), the iphone 2g for 1 month, the sony ericsson xperia x1 for 8 days, the HTC Magic for 5 days, the HTC Touch Dual for 3 weeks.... My list can continue. All of these phones have major flaws. I'm sure the N900 will have its shortcomings. But as far as I can see:

It has a LARGE screen, Qwerty keyboard with good (or so they say) travel (which is a downgrade from the BB kb), 3G connection, wifi & gps, awesome looking UI, completely open source, kick ***** graphics chip, ample memory and 32 gigs of on board space for music, media and docs (and whatever else) and a decent camera!

The best phone I've used for the moment is the BB Bold 9000, or the BB Curve 8900. They're awesome devices. But they'll be put to shame when the N900 comes out


Ahh, I'd also like to point out that BB's data compression is TOP NOTCH, which NO company has even COME CLOSE to replicating. So this in turn has a very good network utilization and battery life. In that respect, the N900 will lose GREATLY. My blackberry can send / receive around 600-800 messages a day on a single battery charge on GPRS, on 3G it's severely diminished. That's what makes or breaks the deal for me on a phone decent battery life. Can I get a full day out of it? I haven't seen the BL-5J battery, but I'm ordering a new one, too, just in case, and if it's small enough I can leave it in my wallet or backpack.