I suspect that it is because the build quality of the N900 and the memory capacity are far better that the majority of competitors. HTC who make the nexus and the G1 et all do not seem to get the point that more memory means better performance and as yet have not learned the lessons learned from teh G1 where it can now no longer be updated (easily) to Android V2 because there is not enough system memory available to handle the update!

I do hope that an official port of android to the n900 is forthcoming as I like the os and the hardware so it would be a win-win situation (in my opinion!)

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