I got my N900 yesterday. I've been holding out buying a smartphone (I know, insult for the N900) for a long, long time. I don't like Apple, I don't want to sell my soul to Google and Microsoft...nah. Then the N900 came out. I doubted...buy a dead end device now or wait for the last step in Nokia's plan for smartphone world domination? The decisionmaker for me was the community. A device with an open design and active community and lots of (potentially) available (portable) software can never be considered a dead end. So I bought my N900.

And I'm impressed. Sure, it's not perfect, but coming from a basic GSM it's the dog's bollocks to me. I only needed the manual to get 3G working, otherwise I found my way without any problem. Installed some goodies from the "extras" repository, and I'm off in the world of mobile internet with Pidgin, Xchat, email, web...well, basically anything I need. Great stuff, and it can only get better I reckon...especially as I can port whatever application I miss, if needbe.

From this end a big THANK YOU to both Nokia and the Maemo community for the N900/maemo experience.