nobody ever answered his question lol. Yes, the apps are free, the only paid ones are in the "OVI Store", but the ones in the App Manager are all free. However, 95% of them are still in beta or in testing, so it's not fully developed, you can still use them though but ya, not many are very useful compared to the amount of crap u can get from the App Store. One of the other con for N900 is that it drains the battery really quickly. Also, 600Mhz is actually slow, you'll notice this if you run a lot of stuff like i do. So you'd find that you'd still have to overclock to 1GHZ just to run most apps in multi-tasking without lag. The support for it is quite poor too so only go for it if you REALLY like the phone. I only like it coz of the hardware keyboard, as i only use phones with a keyboard. It really depends on what you use your phone for. If you want to use tons of apps or games, go with the iPhone. Otherwise, get the N900. Alternatively, you can get the Nexus One. HTC Desire is old already, so get Nexus One if you have the money. Or, get the N900 and an iPod Touch like me, so you get the best of both from both worlds. Only difference between the iTouch and iPhone is you can't txt and call, but everything else is the same.