Interesting thread!! I bought the N900 after reading a load of reviews on latest smartphoes, the main things for me were the web browser (speed, flash player etc), onboard memory capacity, camera quality and qwerty keyboard. I decided to say no to apple due to still having to pay ridiculous price for phone even when paying over £35 a week for two years?! N900 was free! Also I hate how apple/I-tunes is so controling. U see the adverts, heres an app that you can use to work out who owes what on a resteraunt bill etc so what?! use a frigin calculator!!! and you have to pay for the app! I had no idea you could run console EMUs on N900 or anything like that, its all been a pleasant suprise. Only thing I am dissapointed with is the lacking of OVI store, may as well not have bothers, plus no decent nav system. Though I now have Sygic which is great. I had no idea what maemo really was b4 buying the phone, but I am pleasantly suprised by things daily and mainly found via this site!!!!