As soon as I got wind of the N900, Symbian was out of the window for me. I was an N82 owner, and I don't miss that phone at all apart from the Camera as it had a proper flash.

The N900 has been a breath of fresh air for me, and I managed to get it discounted too. I've not had any issues with it, no random reboots, no struggles with signals of any kind, and my laptop can now safely be dedicated to what I enjoy most, DJing.

Application wise, I'm not bothered by the lack of them, because it makes it a surprise every time I update my application manager to find new stuff. Fair play to all of the developers out there working hard to make and port apps to this device, program writing is one thing I could never grasp!

Functionality wise, yeah stuff is missing, but either I don't worry about it because I really don't use it often enough, or just work around it with an app to replace it! fMMS is a good example of an app I don't use often, but is handy to have because every now and then people do like to send me an MMS. The rest i'm just happy to wait for the software updates to implement them. This is a research and discovery device in my eyes, not a device that is meant to be perfect. If I wanted that, I'd get an iPhone (of which I will never because I have used them, and find menus and features an arse to use!).

The reason people have moans, are unhappy and manage to break their devices are because they are careless with the way they use them and don't research products prior to purchasing them. When I first heard about the N900, and the fact it ran linux and was an upgrade to the N800/N810 and primarily the fact they decided to include phone features, I was all over the net trying to gather every last detail about how it worked, what it does, because it appealed to me for what I want from a device.

Mapping is another feature of the device, I don't really worry about, it works, and gets me from A to B as I don't need voices, I have my eyes. Sygic is a nice touch and I might purchase that when my real satnav dies.

As regards Meego, I don't think I will take up on it quickly as I feel its going down the Android/Iphone route of usability that will restrict it. As long as Maemo 5 is looked after by people it will go for many years, I see QT as an additional useful feature atop native linux, not the future.

That is my story

Andy