The poor browser was the main reason that forced me to switch from n900 to the milestone. Now opera is back to maemo, and the n900 is back on my hands.

That said, when in december i bought the milestone (after two monts of n900 usage) was greatly inferior to the n900 in different aspects.

Now the milestone is almost a completely different device, its battery was lasting in 6 ours (@550Mhz), its browser was poor, operamini was far from perfect, no tethering, no flash support, and so on.

Now (after six months) operamini for android is simply amazing, the battery covers more than a whole day (@1000 Mhz),it is incredibly fast, there is a wide range of customized roms, there is a wide range of tethering solutions working in access point mode and with wpa2 enabled, there is the just in time compiler and so on.

I still love the n900, it's openness and the idea behind it, but sadly I have to admit that android world runs while maemo/meego world is just slowly walking.

In that perspective, if microb seem poor and slow when compared to opera for maemo, it looks simply a stone age browser if compared to operamini for android and with some other android browsers skyfire, dolphin and so on.