It's that wretched screen that keeps me from ordering the HTC HD2. In other respects, despite being windoze, it will do everything I want out of the box. But I have serious reservations about that capacitive screen and my fingers: I have built in styli on every finger (sometimes varnished pretty pink) not to mention a habit of having my hands in water or worse when the phone rings.

The n900, on the other hand won't do what I want out of the box, and probably won't ever do some of that. But it will do all sorts of things I hadn't thought of.

I suspect in the end I shall have to go for a smart phone: I don't think the 'always on' nature of the n900 is meant for far flung rural places where there are so many spots with no signal. I fear an n900 would strangle its battery if it lived here. Many devices do.