i think it's ugly. don't like buttons on the front.
i wish someone would make a properly designed phone, so front would be 100 percent screen, then stick speaker/mic on the back. Though I guess that would mean you can't open the cover to change battery for example.

other thing I thought was great about older Nokia phones was that you could hotswap memory from the side, too hard now on the N900

actually now that I think about it, one could make the back cover removable from only 70 percent area from the back, so they could leave 15 percent in both ends for mic/speaker. maybe have red/green phone buttons on the back as well.