The good:

It's serious when it says 'always on'. Compared with the palaver involved in accessing anything online with, say, symbian, n900 does it naturally. Open a twitter app, chat over skype, collect regular email, listen to web-radio - the n900 does it naturally. Upload a photo (pixelpipe), post to your blog (mastory) watch youtube... it's all there.

And, as you'd expect, it has a kick-*** browser integrated with all that.

The media player will happily play your music (though admittedly the playlist creation sucks donkey testes), and you can watch videos on a gorgeous screen resolution.

There's a bunch of useful little apps for all sorts of things - though as yet the set is by no means complete. One thing is you will never be bored with n900 as it will go on improving over time - like a violin or a good marriage.

I confess I have not worked at making the GPS work. Where I live I can find my way about (and I'm the old fashioned type when it comes to maps). And I don't use MMS so their absence doesn't bother me in the slightest - whereas being able to nick the WPA code from my sister's network so I can email or pixelpipe any photos I take there is wonderful. And my RevdKathyMail is a standard op3, so the lack of MfE really hasnt worried me much at all.

So, yes, there are still some things lacking about this device. But if you are prepared to be patient, and work with the device instead of expecting it to nanny you, you will love it. As I do.