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Originally Posted by Techark View Post
With all the N900 bashing that goes on here lately I sometimes find myself thinking maybe I should have bought or buy a Droid phone or God forbid an Iphone.

The N900 shows me there really is no other phone on the market like it.

Tonight while eating out with my family I had to work on a remote server with an issue my tech guys could not handle.
I was able to answer 2 tickets on my support desk, update a ticket that was open to my upstream data centers help desk, IM my technician on duty and discuss the problem with him, VPN into my private networks database grab a servers details from it copy them then paste into a ssh session open a connection to the server upgrade the kernel and reboot the server then monitor a ping until the server was back on line, all those windows open at the same time. And did it all in less 15 minutes.

No other phone form factor on the planet would let me do that.
So yeah it may have issues not the best phone functions in the world, the email client sucks, but as a Internet tablet, hands down it can't be beat.
Um... astonishingly, I do all that on my Android (yes, I'm an admin.. and I use SSH and VPN) and, thankfully, I can also use my Bluetooth Freedom Pro keyboard with my Droid to REALLY get into it comfortably. This thread seems like incredible puffery for a device with many equals and a few better competitors at the moment.

Last edited by danramos; 2010-06-16 at 16:53.