Based on previews and forum posts, there seems to be no general consensus of agreement on:

1. Video playback from files on device. Some pre-reviews say "it plays almost everything we threw at it great" and some say basically the opposite of this.

2. For Flash, some reviews said the N900 played great and had no problem with heavy Flash content and Flash video. A new review at Ubergizmo is as an example of contradiction and says it does not play Flash well and can not even play Youtube very well- just "OK". What??

My non hardware accelerated G1 plays Youtube and Jetflicks (Standard def streaming video site) perfect on wifi or 3G with very good 480X320 quality and sound with no stuttering.

Frankly, some of these pre-reviews make no sense to me. Are they trying to play Flash sites or media with a dozen other apps or web sites running in the background and do not understand this?

It would seem common sense that the N900 should perform better with video than my wimpy G1 and inefficient Android OS, but why all of the contradictions before release?