All,

my new device is an HTC Desire running on Android 2.1 / HTC Sense and I won't switch back to the N900 (even though I still do think it is a great device and this is a great community).

Why?

When I first saw the specs of the N900 mid 2009 it looked to me like both a thouroughly engineered mobile phone/tablet platform and a perfect business tool.

And even though I was turned down by Nokia Store's missing abilty to handle international credit card transactions (which automatically discarded my order from the waiting list at the very end of the waiting period) I eagerly managed to get hold of the N900 pretty early after its public availability.

What I got then was an almost perfectly engineered device. Kudos to the responsible hardware designers @ Nokia. Great job.

The software side of the device, however, was by far not as bright. Even though I am into Unix and Linux since more than 25 years now after 6 months of usage of the N900 as my single phone / tablet device I could not longer effort e.g.

• to be without a mobile phone after unforseeable battery drains of the N900 in the middle of the day
• to wait for necessary prio 0 bug fixes for months
• to do all the necessary micro-tweaking of the device
• to wait for the Ovi Store to contain meaningful apps for the N900
• to be a guinea pig for Nokia's market research
• to wait for Nokia to come up with any kind of statement of direction / roadmap for the N900 / Maemo / MeeGo
• to wait for Nokia to come up with a plan how to re-invent itself after it's n+1st business reorganization
• to be without a mobile phone after unforseeable battery drains of the N900 in the middle of the day
• tbc ...

Am I feeding the trolls? Not at all. Nokia had every chance but ...

Where are you going to?