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Originally Posted by starman View Post
Hello, had the n900 for a few days now, and I must admit I love, got rid of my iphone and jumped ship.

While the whole maemo os is cool, I feel like I'm missing the point of it all, I work at CPW in the UK and after many demos of the n900 by our Nokia rep I decided that I would give it a go, but I am a little disappointed with what you can actually do with it!! The n900 is pegged as a hackers dream device and that the linux os will open a whole world of apps and advantages over other devices....... but Ill be dammed if I can find anything on the n900 that other devices don't already have.

I have activated the extras and testing repo's, but still cant find anything that really sets it apart from other devices, I know im gonna have my face ripped off for that statement but I feel like ive missed something important with the n900, the only thing that does set it apart from other devices is the multitasking which is sublime, but as a whole the OS is still a phone OS.

Can anyone provide any feedback or links to some cool n900 stuff that is unique to the device?

Cheers
You are obviously missing the point, but I think you are right in a way. A long time ago Palm made a Palmtop that included phone functionality. They called it a smartphone. Late last year Nokia made an internet tablet that included phone functionality, but they called it a "mobile computer". Obviously a more correct term would be "smart phone" this time also.

But one main point is that the N900 is neither a iPhone or an Android. Lots of people (me included) just don't like iPhones or Androids, and now we have the perfect alternative.