Frances:

Coincidentally , I am also looking for places to buy the N900 (brick and mortar store) in or nearby San Francisco, CA (Sillicon Valley area).

I have found that Walmart can sell you an N900 and ship it to a nearby Walmart store of your choosing It is far more expensive than buying it from Amazon, tough.

Frys (frys.com) is another reputable place (electronics store) that sells the N900, but also, quite expensive.

CompuUSA carries the N900 but there are no more CompUSA stores in California, as far as I know.

I will be travelling to the USA in a few weeks, and what I will probably end doing is purchasing it online either on DELL.COM or on Amazon.com and having it shipped to my hotel. seems to be the least expensive way.

Any comments are welcome. Thanks in advance.

febb