1. No portrait messaging
2. No home button
3. Take steps from landscape to portrait to access the phone function (smartphoners like their one hand phone operation).
4. No direct call feature
5. No voice dial or search

These are things being pointed out. People expecting a fancy smartphone will either accept the issues and wait for improvements or get a more phone centric device.

I only repeat this since you asked. Been beaten to death in reviews and here. The reviews are the danger sign though, since they are assuming the same thing many others are that pre-ordered- the N900 is a smartphone.

The flood of posts that shall come to this board by these confused and surprised people will point this out quickly... well, whenever the N900 finally comes out.

Let us hope there are no typhoons or heavy wave systems (assuming the N900s are on a boat). I lost an entire container full of ASICS, memory and motherboards when I worked for IBM

Our customers were just as unforgiving as you all are

Added: The more I use the Droid, a little less I like it. Flat keys, wasted d-pad and the OS kind of drifts into la-la land every now and then. Maps rock though!