Ok...95% was probably an overstatement. Maybe 75%. Or let me put it this way...if I needed a new phone right now, I could find a few that hardware-wise would get the job done, I could get by ok, do what I need to do. Serviceable stuff..

But I want the N900 25% for it's killer feature set and 75% because it's the only thing that lets me put a full-fledged, open Linux distro with X, root and all the basic LInux goodies in my freakin' pocket! To, me that's incredibly powerful.

Hardware changes like the seasons. Today's state-of-the-art is tomorrow's old backup phone, like so many Razr's in the drawer. And no matter how powerful or perfectly sized and shaped hardware can only as much as the software enables it to do. But an OS and supporting software lasts for years. So the firmware/software is really the key.

And it seems clear to me that no other mobile OS is as open, or as capable and powerful as Maemo. It's the next step, the mobile OS open and powerful enough for mobile hardware we haven't dreamed of yet. I wanna get on board early.