I have had an iPhone and I liked it, at first, there's an app for everything you ever want to do. It will cost you a little money, but he what's 79 euro cents huh?

Tried to get involved with developing but gave up after a while to many problems to overcome (paying Apple, develop only on Mac, apps must be approved by Apple, etc...).

Hell you even have to pay for an app just to be able to store some data on the device. From a user point of view it's a good device, but it feels you don't OWN it. (ha ha my wife is using it now...)

Then I went to buy a Motorola Droid, which is also a good device and I liked it too. Reasonable app-store, where you can get all the apps you need to make it more usable. But it feels like you have be married with google to get the full potential.

As I'm a Java developer it was pretty easy to start developing (using Eclipse), but de software is running in a special designed Java version which has some drawbacks. After a few days of playing with it I sold the device (rather quick actually).

.. then ..

Got me a N900, love it still (about 4 week now) and I even started to develop some stuff (using Eclipse for C(++)). Yep it got some minor problems may be, but he at least you OWN the damn thing...

I LOVE IT...

good luck...