I could not agree more! No matter what you put inside, style and usability is very important.

The "Mac-style" silver and black has completely different proportions of each colour. It is more silver with black accents and don't have that horrible silver surrounding the black that surrounds the screen. It is like having a Ferrari engine within an old school Skoda (what is wrong with a good old Skoda I hear you say...). It will break apart before we start to play with it.

That ridiculous keyboard with elevated hinge will be the first thing to go after a few flicks. I'm done with their design and engineering.

I am not easily put off by ugly things....(I have a mirror...) but this is beyond the pale.

Besides, even not being easily put off by different technologies, I prefer the ones that give more that a month's usage out of my money and my N900 has just done it for me. Not an every day swearing kind of person but I've been at the end of my wits and very p!!!ed off by battery issues, then kb issues, then non-responsiveness issues. It does not fill me with confidence in the Nokia brand, unless it is actually build by HTC on Nokia's behalf.