That's actually not what I said. But then none of your responses have really been to what I actually said, so I don't know what I expect. Also, your argument about the reviews is just an ad hominem argument, attacking the speaker, rather than their claims.

I did not say you have discounted reviews that are positive. The reviews I cited are not necessarily even positive reviews, but you wouldn't know that because you keep commenting on them without reading them. I only cited the reviews that actually comment on the phone application and it was striking that the ones that do bother to comment on it all have positive things to say about that particular part of the N900. That does not mean the reviews as a whole are positive. They actually have many things to say that are critical of the N900, which you would find out if you ever bothered to read the things that you're commenting on.

Also, I am not defending the N900 as somehow perfect and unopen to criticism. That is just another distorition of what I've said, by more than one person posting in this thread (who seem to prefer to be snide, rather than say anything substantive about the phone application--which was supposed to be the subject of the discussion). All I said in fact is, perhaps one person in this forum, Texrat, did not like the phone application, but other people who have used the N900 have thought it is well done. I just tried to provide information about that one part of the N900 that I thought people might be interested in, to point out that there are differing opinions about the phone application.

There are plently of things that I'm uncertain about, with the N900 and I have no idea until I see it if I would want one. I think the camera is probably inferior to the N86, which I've been thinking about getting. I think the N900 is too thick to be readily pocketable. I don't like that it has no call and end buttons. I don't really want a device that requires a stylus to be used. The keyboard sounds mediocre, from what I've read. It lacks MMS support. Despite the Linux on a phone concept, it sound like there's really not that much in terms of applications from the Linux world that have really been ported to Maemo. Obviously the whole lack of potrait support could be really annoying. And that's just things I don't like off the top of my head.

It's like I can't say one positive thing about the N900 without being accused of being a "fanboy" by people who just want to snipe and criticize and have nothing substantive to say. It's easy, of course, to distort what someone else says and then attack that, when you have no good response to what they actually said.