You asked for a beating, you're good for one. I'll try and be nice, though...


Then why on earth did you buy a Free Open Source Software-Phone?? This is not what linux is about. Linux is about having the freedom to manipulate your phone in whatever way you want and only be bound by your personal skills and creativity, not by someone else telling you what you may and may not do with it.
What you just did here is like buying a box of lego and then complaining that you have to build the model first before you can play with it. It's not about playing with the one model that's pictured on the box. It's about being able to build the pieces you get into whatever you want.
If you just want out-of-the-box point & click experience go buy an iPhone. It can only do what Apple thinks is profitable for them, but the few things it can do work right out of the box...


You mean one that works right out of the box? My guess would be a definite no.

Because Apple has no (financial) interest in you syncing your music to anything but an iPhone or maybe the newest generation iPod Touch. To achieve this, they lock their music and their protocols with DRM and explicitly prohibit any attempt to be creative in the use of their soft/hardware in the EULA.
Bottom Line: it's probably doable, but Apple made sure it's illegal to enlarge their profits.

Again... DRM-protected content won't play out of the box on linux. My personal guess is it won't play ever, but from a technical standpoint I think generally it will not play for a while.
This is because the license proprietors think linux being open source is a danger to their business model, because it lets people see how their DRM-locks work and might give them a chance to sabotage them, so they simply refuse to give linux players the proper blayback licenses. Not even for money...

I don't mean to be rude, but please don't blame the community when it is you who has made an uninformed decision and ended up buying something you didn't want.
If it's an iPhone you wanted all along, why didn't you just go and by one? The N900 was never ment to do all the things you describe, and probably a large majority of the people active in this forum knew that long before purchase and actively decided for themselves that they can happily live with that. In fact I'm pretty sure half the people on this forum wouldn't want to use an iPhone even if they were getting paid for it! The N900 is not a toy, it's a tool. You wanted a shiny new toy (nothing wrong with that), and are now disappointed that the supercool tool you bought instead doesn't have the blingbling you expected. That's understandable, but not our fault...

Have you even so much as glimpsed at the extras-devel repo? I certainly wouldn't recommend for you to try any of the things that are being prepared there, but... The thing hasn't been released for 3 weeks and I can play all the games I spent my weekends with as a kid on my phone! How cool is that? These things were never designed to be played with accelerometers via WLAN on ARM-processors.... Yet the community had a blast and ported them. Just like that! Awesome!

If you want it so bad and still want to show off with your device then why not just crack out your programming skills, sacrafice a weekend and code the damn thing! Imagine telling your iPhone friend: "Like what I did with the keypad? I wrote that! A thousand people around the globe are using it every day and there's my name in the credits!" Because THAT's what this phone is all about!

Happy new year, although it's not quite time yet