I am legitimately curious here...

I just purchased one and am waiting on it being delivered but having read a large portion of the N900 posts on here (and messing with the SDK of it) I have a pretty good understand what the phone does and is.

If not for the Terminal, root access, and freedom to expand on... pretty much everything..... why would anyone choose (especially if they had to pay as much as us U.S. people for it) the N900 over any other phone? Be it the Android or the iPhone?

If your primary focus is making and receiving phone calls and texting.... the N900 lacks some of the normal features like making your own/different ringtones for each contact (unless this was added in a PR), no voice dialing and things of that nature.

I currently have an Android; and as a smartphone it's really quite good - and I know I'm going to Miss the new "Beta" Navigation from Google that is on my phone... that GPS turn-by-turn is *amazing* - But the ability to totally get elbow/arm/upper torso deep into messing with every single component of my phone is the reason (and only one I can think) that the N900 is worth so much money and worth replacing android for...

It just seems to me that; even assuming both were free - if my only focus was phone calls and keeping in touch with people... I think the Android phones would be a better solution for someone over the N900.. The N900 was somewhat designed to be taken advantage of.

I'm not bashing or yelling at anyone: I'm merely curious. IF you don't do much with your N900 - Why did you choose it over the plethora of other devices on the market? What made it stand out for you?