I've had an n810 since January '08, and an n900 since January '10, so I've watched the transition from internettablettalk.com to talk.maemo.org, the Diablo transition on the n810, etc...

To qualify my POV a bit, I've been a Linux (Slackware) user since '96 or so, CS degree, Unix administrator by trade, etc... and my interest in most open source development is very much driven by a real enjoyment of community, contributing, volunteering, if you have the time and interest to do so.

That said, in the last six months, it seems that this forum has devolved to a bunch of very unproductive whining and negativity, and I'm not sure how often this translates to useful, actionable bug reports.

On a positive note, I think the QT SDK is a nice development lately, and I'm hoping to do some QT development for the N900 in the very near future, in the form of a standalone Netflix queue manager app, mostly because I don't like navigating the Netflix site on the n810 or n900.

My own take on the n900 has always been... yeah, like my old tablet (n810), but faster, more memory and storage, and now it has a phone... which for me just meant pulling the SIM out of my work cell (Razr v3xx) and throwing it into the n900, and using Wifi for 99.9% of all internet access, except for absolute emergencies.

I couldn't care less about cell phones in general, and I'm not really a gadget chaser, but most of my gadgets are linux-based devices... Phatbox in my car, Sharp Zaurus SL-5500, Roku Netflix player for streaming Netflix @ home, n810, n900, and a hackintoshed Dell Mini 10v, although I really don't care for OS X or most of Apple's stuff.

It would be really nice to see at least one more official update for Diablo on the n810, and at least a PR1.3 for the n900, but I'm guessing that my n810 will mostly be my favorite device for watching occasional tv episodes and movies while I'm sitting around, light web browsing, checking email (Claws), checking RSS feeds (RSSyl plugin in Claws), and listening to Rhapsody every so often... and a little Xmame, if I can find the Diablo-friendly copy again.

I think the n900 is a really cool piece of hardware, and I was looking forward to it for a long time, for reasons that are largely unrelated to any sort of interest in 'smartphone' technology, but wow... I can barely stand to look at this forum lately.

On a more productive note... please take a look at some of these real bug reports

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10326
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8555
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5033
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10540
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10625
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10628
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10656