I had the 5800 before the N97... Had a short nokia phase and I must say I did love the 5800. That's why I figured than the N97 was a 5800 with 32Gb of storage and a QWERTY keyboard. Although it was far from it. They just used the same specs as the 5800 and put more features in it. It could not cope, loading music from the 32Gb was so slow unless you only have a couple of tracks on it which seemed to defeat the purpose of the storage!

Anyway back to the topic here. The N900 is extremely fast in comparison. I am sometimes amazed at how fast it can load things! I also believe you point about researching phones. I watch so many reviews for the N900 before I bought it.