I'm actually feeling pretty good about the N900 based on that; I'm pretty sure that this chap's idea of the things that a "user uses 98% of the time" are not the same things that I expect to spend my time doing. There are many, many things that have made me completely uninterested in the iPhone, and I'm getting an N900 specifically because it is not those things.

I was particularly amused by this bit of his post:I actually work on (a small fraction of) the LHC computing grid, and I confidently expect to spend more time on my N900 SSHed into my cluster than I will talking on it as a phone.

The N900 probably isn't the device for everybody, but I'm pretty sure it's the device for me.