I've researched the N900 really good before I bought it. I knew it was not the perfectly polished, ultra sleek, superduper phone/MID. But I want to make a difference for a platform. Maemo has the potential to kick Apple's *** real good.

We've arrived at a point in development that the hardware will not sell a phone. Of course it is important but it's not solely the Unique Selling Point.

Today and tomorrow it is all about usability and applications. If a platform has a vast amount of apps available it is more likely to sell. For example take the iPhone or Android. It has a vast amount of apps available and it is very, very easy to install these on your device.

So if Nokia and us of course wants to have a chance to be a big time player in the field we need to do our efforts to try new software, test it and do a bugreport.

My experience is very positive! This is really the first platform I see where users don't get scolded when they discover a bug and report it. I discovered a stupid bug in Windows Mobile 6.1 a year ago, and thought: 'Hey I can reproduce this error and it is absolutely due to a bad in a Microsoft .DLL, let's report it and send some logs.'. The bug destroyed the contact list. Pretty important if you ask me.

My reaction from Microsoft was: 'Dear Sir, As far as we know we are not going to fix this bug. We ask you kindly not to bother us with this kind of information.'. Well that's damn good first impression!

To get back on the subject at hand, although Nokia announced this as a Step 4 out of 5, a niche product etc. etc. this is a very stable, usable piece of hard and software. Much better then the current Windows Mobile will ever be!