Don't know, haven't tried, it was easy on my N810. If this is an issue that is unfortunate, but its still better than the iPod touch. Ie. I find lack of BlueTooth tethering on iPod touch more a discomfort than the work required to get BlueTooth keyboard working on N900. However, both are features not officially supported.

This is also my hope. One problem is that tweaking it means the product isn't vanilla anymore which means e.g. SSU may fail. The more users you have providing bug reports and the more developers you have able to solve these bugs, the better the product becomes, but products also get more complex.

I also don't agree this is only due to closed source components, but I recognize this is a main concern of yours. My biggest issue is 1) The hardware issues (microUSB port, battery life) 2) The lack of security/reliability updates. I think this is because we're too small userbase to be profitable if such is taken care for 3) I do recognize people do want more open source components, and want features such as USB-OTG, MMS, but these are secondary to my 2 primary concerns because these concerns count for any product. The product wasn't advertised to have say MMS, so if you are able to hack it on it, you should be grateful for that; it isn't a given.