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Now that the dust is setteling on new toy syndrom, thought I'd ask a few questions before I rush off and buy a N900 (they are finally in the shops here now!).
I have been using the N810 internet tablet for 18 months (and the N800 for a year before that) and I use it ALOT especially in the evenings, its a really great way to browse the web, chat via IRC/MSN etc.; I use the N95 as my phone, and I have tethered them so I can use either my home wifi or 3G when out and about. As a phone user, I'm not that heavy a user - much more time to be spent as a computer user.

The apps. I use most are :
Pidgin (never turn that off)
Browser (ditto - I run my music server via a browser)
rDesktop (why get out of my seat to check up on my PC)
Transmission (mans gotta torrent)
Mplayer (use it, but its not a great app)
Media Streamer (use it but only works with 20% of my media)

SO what are the things that bug me the most about the N810 and that I HOPE are fixed in the N900:

SLOW web browsing .. you get used to it, but it does bug me (hence why I'm writing this on my PC).
SLOW to usless FLASH (I have it turned it off all the time now - some web sites just kill it, i.e. BBC).
Media Streaming - I would love to stream media from my Server, but its always in the wrong format/codec, and life too short to re-code everything..
Media FLAC support, my entire music library is in FLAC, I'd like to stream it or play it without having to re-encode - used to work but lumpy, and now I can't get it to work at all.
Poor Audio .. the audio playback was pants.

So, how does the N900 cope with the above? The web browsing with Flash is a must - its the one thing that makes me want to ditch the N810; I'd love to be able to stream media without any re-encoding, and I'd like to be able to put on headphones and listen everynow and again.

Cheers

BT