N900 is about to launch with it's new Maemo5 operating system. A lot has been talked about if it will have enough cool apps to be interesting enough for the mass market. In my opinion there is plenty "out of the box" and ready apps already. I would say that 95% of the apps that I will use are already available (Browser, mail, contacts+phone, calendar, RSS, notes, mediaplayer, maps - that's about 80% of my daily usage). But the public needs numbers.

I have understood, that the browser will have a full Flash supoprt. ie. it will run all (or at least almost all) the flash content in web pages. This doesn't mean only youtube and vimeo videos or animated ads. This means also games and other small applications. (Can they be run in full screen and saved on the device for offline use )

I haven't been following the progress in other models (been so busy with the N900 ), but I am under the expression that this is not a common feature in pocket-size devices. Should this be something to shout about? "When you get the N900, you will get thousands of Flash games - For free". And the same goes also for all the web applications, like google docs.

Meaby the maemo marketing team has had this in mind when they have sayed "full computer like web browser in your pocket". Then showing how youtube runs on web pages (sometimes slaggy, sometimes not). "So? I have a youtube app to do that on my phone" - says Joe Average.

The real possibilities of this devices browser is something I realised only a few days ago - and I have been focused on the N900 for a month! (And would not consider me as a stupid person ) Should there be some examples of playing advaned flash content (games etc) and advanced web pages (ajax/javascript based applications) on the device? THAT would be IMHO the WOW effect that the puplic is still waiting for. Something that hasn't been possible before.