i bought it for about 450 after taxes and rebate, which is a very good price point for me I could have gotten it for around 380 from dell, but long story short, i ended up with the 450 price.

• the price point itself is such as good deal for a device like this
• the panormaic desktop, widgets, and the look
• 5 MP camera, not as good as my 10MP but can still take great photos when i need to.
• All the extra features it has like infrared and fm transmitter
• Most importantly because it's an internet tablet, and i'ma geek that's constantly surfing the web

i've considered other phones like the HD2, an iphone, milestone. But although 500 isn't cheap, I feel I got A LOT for my money's worth.

Overall i'm still very satisfied with my purchase, and It feels good to have a unique, and such a complimentary phone to my lifestyle. And although there was a lot of alternatives and maemo 6 is a relatively premature OS, I have much belief in it's potential