I have to say N900 has too many issues to make it suitable for the mainstream. And the only person I know other than me to own it sold it as soon as he could.

If you want something which is a good phone, works well, replaces your mp3 player, has loads of fun apps then N900 may be the worst you can get rather than the best. Add to that the fact that most will consider it too fat and ugly (I like the one colour masculine look - though could have been a bit thinner).

If on the other hand you are a linux lover then clearly it is the best.

I have never used linux before. I am not really that interested in fun apps. Have my DS for fun. Downloaded angry birds, played for 5 minutes and never touched it again. So iphone has no advantage over N900 in that department for me. I wanted my N900 as my media player but found that I ended up using my blackberry instead for music due to lack of proper random on N900 and stuttering music. Also email I transferred to blackberry as a million times better than on N900.

N900 is the best for me despite its issues because:

- like I said not interested in fun apps so no disadvantage,
- web browser is amazing and don't need to rely on laptop as much (though if I get a 7 inch internet tablet as planned N900 will lose a lot of its usefuleness),
- integrated I'm chats,
- keyboard and conboy notes is something I can't do without,
- over clocking helped reduce a lot of the sluggishness that used to drive me crazy and almost cause me to throw it out the window,
- most of all it is the best because of the ability to modify everything. So much fun and very addictive. Despite my N900 being out for repairs over a month I still come here to check for the latest mods. I would not sacrifice the ability to make the device completely mine for a billion apps. Apps/utilities like overclocking, QBW, home screen selector widget, swappolube that improve performance and usability and modifying all icons is where the fun is for me. And that makes N900 by far the best device for me.

However, if I was too busy to spend time on this forum to find out all the ways to improve the N900 then I don't think I would have been able to put up with the N900 for more than three months. So subjectively for me I have to say N900 is the best by light years. However, objectively if I just want a device that works properly out of the box to make calls, browse the web, listen to music and other basic stuff and I didn't have time to spend on a website learning stuff about the device then there are tons far better (HTC Desire, Nexus 1, iphone, Samsung Galaxies to name a few). So would I use something other than N900 or its successor - No. Will I recommend N900 to anyone I know? Absolutely not (unless I want them to hate me).