This is good in a way. Perhaps some people will be happy with what the community offers, I don't know.

I've been a loyal Nokia user for nearly 20 years. But my experience with Nokia gets worse with every passing year. It started to go downhill with my E70. So slow Nokia should NEVER have shipped it. With my N95 it was better but 7 seconds to change a track on the music and 20 minutes for the delete action to return to the interface on a music track? Get real.

Now I have the interesting situation of the N900. I have an N95 which I use in the car. I have it connected to the stereo via the headset extension and a Bluetooth handsfree. It just works. I use extgps to use Autoroute on my Laptop and things are great.

So I get My N900. I can't use the headset extension cable even though it sees it because the controls won't work.and when I am connected to the stereo for music it routes the speakers to the Bluetooth when a call comes in.

It's like going back to basic for everything that my N95 does. It won't even use #110 key codes when I want to top up my Swedish payg sim, simply complains that it is an invalid option and I have to navigate the audio menu to top up (my swedish is crap).

I took the N900, against my better judgement, because Android did not have, at that time, offline gps mapping. I travel a lot internationally and need those maps offline, I'm not paying to download maps on a 2,000 mile journey on international roaming.

When I get the N900 I find I can't get offline maps because neither PC suite nor Ovi suite work properly/work with the phone. Then Google realise they're missing a trick and offer downloadable GPS maps.... Grrrrr.

In the end I have a handheld device which I can get a SSH shell on and do some interesting things with. The screen is too small for serious PC work and the phone is too useless to be any kind of use to me as a real phone. I already had a 5mp camera with my N95 and I gain very little. At least it is not an expensive mistake, Vodafone UK were basically giving them away (wonder why that was with the Nokia decision to dump them).

The phone is a evolutionary dead end which I will wind up using as a smart 32 gig music player (but not in the car), with some other OS on it.

I seriously appreciate that the community is trying to make something special of the N900 but, guys, this is neither the product nor the time to do so.

My next phone will be an Android from HTC. Nokia will have to go a very, very, very long way to bring themselves back into my estimation as a phone provider because they have produced 3 generations of phones which have the same faults as every other provider I've ever used (which is why I always bought Nokia); namely phones I don't like and are not easy to use!