Dude, all I have is a request. Can you check your language please?

It adds nothing to your gripes and I imagine it reduces the amount of people who will ultimately read your opinion.

The N900 may have had these issues out of the box but it is still the only device I know of that you, I, or an average user can devise, develop, and install work around's for a great deal of its short comings real, or imagined...
Everything has short comings.

The N900 is also long on tooth, having been the first to present the hardware and the means to perform some of the tasks that you may want.

Newer phones/devices now have the software to perform some of these tasks available out of the box.


But guess what?

Those new boxes were not around when the N900 was first unboxed.

...and still, very few of these new boxes come with devices that have all the potential capabilities that the N900 has.

But alas, some of those new boxes contain devices that perform some of those tasks much better than a N900 running Maemo will ever be able to do. As a result of this, some of our members have moved on to some of those other devices.


But guess what again?

You won't find a lot of their used N900's for sale. I imagine that's because many N900 owners would rather keep 'em in the family.

I can think of no portable device to teach someone about computing in general, software development, and Mobile OS design that is better than the N900.

Now if you're following me so far (and haven't just blown off this post as it seems you have done to the thousands of member generated responses in the many other threads similar to this one) then it's conceivable that those used N900's are handed down to young sons and daughters.

In one case I know of, a member handed it up to his mother so she could learn on the thing.

I also know that I wouldn't want my mother reading your expletives if she came here for help or advice.

The simple response is to say that people like her don't have to come here but, that's the thing...

My mom's pretty smart, and if she had an N900 and didn't come here then we would have one less smart person contributing to the forum. Savvy?