I love these threads, but they're like The Cure - a lot of pissing and moaning and hardly any substance.

To sum it up: The phone isn't useless. Most of these issues can be attributed to PEBCAK - or the inability to understand how things function. Pro tip: the N900 isn't very 'forgiving' for your average 'smartphone' user, regardless of how it was marketed. You bought into the marketing schemes, which is your fault - no fault of the N900 or this community.

Taking some time to look around this forum before dropping into tantrum mode would very clearly solve most of your issues. You don't like the playlist functionality? Use a different media player. You don't like the phone rotating all the time? Uninstall rotate daemon. If you're having that much trouble updating it, reflash it to the latest stock PR 1.2 bin for your region. It isn't difficult.

Whining about researching and using a device with this much realized and available potential only reaffirms one thing: You need to go back to an iPhone.

Cheers.