Been using it as my only phone since 4.12.

I've powered up by netbook once after that and my previous phone that has a clone SIM (my data plan includes two SIMs with the same number) has died on the shelf for lack of use, I maybe should charge it to keep the battery from rotting.

No, I don't regret spending all that money. Not one bit. I use my N900 daily, at least half an hour of Skype, full use of my university POP email, min. an hour of web browsing on the bus and on breaks between lectures, music playing on the background much of the time, idle time easily killed with the games. The device only truly rests and needs rest while I'm asleep, and even then it's breathing in its daily dose of electricity on the other side of the room I sleep in (I'm not a morning person, so if the alarm does not get me up from bed, I'll fall asleep again). It does everything I throw at it with such self-confidence that I've actually learned to trust it - my previous Symbian phones haven't been trustworthy due to bugginess and self-rebooting (I've had exactly one uncalled for reboot on my N900 and that was from messing with root mode) and my total three weeks of iPhone connection-dropping quasi-single-task hell (3G for four days and 3GS for the rest of the time) taught me to think twice before getting anything fruit-themed... If I want to be caged, I'll get married. HTC Hero's captouch panel does not like my fingers making it a usability nightmare and the G1 had a ridiculous but luckily faint red-green pattern on the screen from the sense capacitors that popped up with an ugly grin at me every time I looked at the screen for longer than a few seconds.

Uh, I'm glad those times are over... My blood pressure is back to normal and I've stopped worrying about not being available when I should be - now I am "online as it happens" on Skype, MSN and Gtalk - and let's not forget the WCDMA900 band rollout back here, I get 3G signal in very surprising places.

Slight rawness is visible here and there on the OS, but for me it's no problem and only points out that things can just WORK - there's no need for them to be pretty shiney blingbling and coated in sugared rose petals (please-everyone is too often make-me-hate-it as it means giving up functionality unless done carefully), bundled with a cult membership. That said, the N900 certainly is not for everyone, fiddling with the still-in-testing repositories actually may require the user to know what he/she is doing, but for me it fills every phone and netbook need I have quite effortlessly - the only real nag I have about the device is that the screen could be a wee bit larger.