I wanted to replace my Palm m500 and I was tired with moving my addressbook/database/notes/etc to new platform yet-another-time. So, I decided that I need an open source platform - it is much easy to extract records from open source application files rather then private closed source. For exam HI-Note is not supported and died and I needed to use a complicated scheme to get records.

So, Nokia Linux box was very attractive (and still attractive, actually) after I learned about it. Besides that Nokia has an excellent reputation in RF reception.