I've monitoring this forum since I got my N900 early this year. It is really hard to imagine how weak and incomplete the phone features are. This phone sucks so much that I have to register just to post this response. It's really frustrating at best. Save your time and energy and just buy an Android phone. You will feel much happier enjoying using the phone as a tool rather becoming a slave just trying to make things work!

In terms of hardware spec, this phone is probably among the top and tethering is working through USB or Bluetooth. The softwares (except the browser) and basic phone features sucks big time.

- OVI Map/GPS - is this a joke!
- OVI Web Based Applications- does it work at all! N900 is not supported
- Picture Quality/Video Quality - maybe this is common to all phones. Big mega pixels and Carl Zeiss lense doesn't translate to image quality.
- Battery Life - the phone sometime just drain the battery for no good reason!
- Phone Dialing, man! try to dial a phone number when this thing is in sleep mode! It's a pain!
- Bluetooth Contact List Integration - will it ever work! There are so many people monitoring this bug and it is still in low priority! Nokia won't listen and prioritize based on customers interests! You Guinea Pig!
- The Schedule software sucks big time and it cannot be synced with Google, and it cannot manage simple Daytime Saving Change!
- Try to create a play list in the media player! Or play many video clips! You will suffer!
etc, etc....

Yea! I do like the fact that the flash can be used as as a flash light! It does come in handy!

I am waiting to test out PR1.2 to see how much the this phone features have improved!