I was a faithful Sony Ericsson buyer until they let me down on so many fronts with their self-leg shooting (especially in the Smartphone area)
N95-8GB was my first Nokia (at least that I bought myself, had one as a gift ages ago).
It was a real tough choice this one, as Nexus one and X10 were coming, the Droid etc. N97 I considered very briefly but when I saw the hardware specs and review it was out the window. Curious thing, they are doing the same with the N8 again (cpu wise).
I saw the N900 specs and software and said this is powerful enough to match any other smartphone, it's got potential on the software front, the demos where there (Koffice etc) so I went ahead.
I don't regret my choice, I don't specifically need PR1.2 as mine runs as good as any software based device ever can, but I am let down by the support and promised features.
There is a saying in my country: "If you can see the snake's trail you don't need to see the snake as well".
The snake's trail I'm seeing is of our N900s being thrown in the history closet as Nokia does more knee jerk reactions to heed of Google/HTC/Apple or what today's contender of the crown is named.