I agree. How many phones can run Openoffice? Firefox? How many can run desktop Java apps? With the N900 you have almost everything that desktop Debian and Ubuntu have. How many phones can say that?

On which other phones can you sit down and write a quick Python app to evaluate some data you've collected in the field? Which ones can run a full-power editor like Emacs or Jedit, and then compile and run the code right on the device?

I use my N900 to manage servers, to keep in touch when I'm on travel, sometimes to write code or documents, browse the web from my back porch, and to play music and videos at the gym and on airplanes. And it gets me to the hotel when I get to where I'm going.

The other guys may have a "cool factor", but for me the N900 is a sort of Swiss Army Knife device that does all kinds of things that used to require multiple gadgets. I'm very pleased with it.