I only ordered mine a few days before the announcement about the move to Mee-Go, which won't be officially available on th n900, and received it the same day. I was brassed off at first. But, I love it. Great device. I guess we won't get iPlayer now, but...

I like Debian, I like Ubuntu, and if there's a chance of getting Lubuntu onto it, and still be able to use it as a phone some day - who cares? Even if its dual-booted or running in a shell (who wants to answer a phone while watching TV?) - because I doubt I'd download TV progs over mobile broadband anyway, I'd do that on WiFi.

Sure, if Mee-Go gets to run on it, cool; if stuff for Mee-Go gets ported back to Maemo, cool. If Nokia don't support it... who cares? I don't remember the last time I used support beyond downloading updates.

I've been buying computers, PDAs, mobile phones, etc. for 25 years, and seen them all come and go. Atari ST, 386, 486, Pentiums, Psion, IPAQ, Clie, Nokia phones I cannot remember the numbers of, Nokia phones I could use as a modem to read webmail ten years ago. One thing I know the minute I open the box - it will be superceded within days, and if I'm lucky it won't be obsolete within weeks. I have 10 year old Dells running Debian and Ubuntu - a 4 year old Compaq lappy that runs faster on Ubuntu 10.04 than it ever did on XP.

Thing is, they do what they did when bought - and in that respect are little different from any other phone or PDA.

It is all relative, and looking at the prices people are still asking for n810s on eBay, they will be a little technology gem over the next few years, because there is nothing else out there like them. I've looked. I looked before I bought, and I'm still looking, and there's nothing. I'm tempted to get another, one to use and one to play with and break. But I'd never get away with another one without getting my covetous partner one as well.

Maybe that's an idea - people who are unhappy with theirs could put them up for offer to people who would like a second one just to play with.

M.