I was on market for a portable music player. The two main forces the Zune HD and the Touch both were lacking something I wanted.

Zune - No bluetooth

Touch - Not so great support in video codecs and dont like the idea of using itunes and messing with DRM and stuff.

So started to look at smartphones.

Once I got into the phones I found the N900 had a higher support for music/video codecs than almost any other device, had the 3.5" jack, has a good internal memory size with expandable memory via the micro SD card slot, and it had enough power inside of it to run videos without issue.

When I saw the price to be much lower than the other smartphones and the fact I can have just one device instead of two, it was a no brainer.

Now that I have it, I can explore the device further and take advantage of all it has to offer in additon to just what I was originally looking for.