Continued from my report above...

I even made sense of the "thumb-twisting" motion in the N900 browser. Not with thumb, though, but with the stylus whose praise I've been singing here... You just draw a circle in one direction and it zooms out, in the other and it zooms in. It works very well with the stylus and makes complete intuitive sense. Double-tap zoom works faster for many instances, but if you need to fine tune the zoom level, then this is very useful.

Just because El Jobso or someone once implied a stylus is for loosers or something to that effect, it doesn't mean it wouldn't suit web browsing on a mobile device very well... I mean, Nintendo DS uses it to great effect and for a good reason. It just offers superb precision compared to fingers. And from my one-day experience N900 seems to be as a good a job with the stylus as does my DS.

I also noticed that the screen can be locked and unlocked another route too, not just from the screen-lock slider button. You can also do it via the power button and on-screen button/slider. Useful when holding the phone in an orientation where reaching for the physical slider lock might be less favorable.

Good stuff!