I have my N900 for almost a year now. Of course I am worried about my USB connector (but it is still working, fingers crossed).

Syncing Google calendar and contacts is working fine, after I subscribed to the free nuevasync service. Before that, It was a mess. Actually I hoped that the N900 would sync with the calendar and contacts on my Ubuntu box, but no luck there.

Compared with the various phones of wife and daughters, the N900 certainly lacks polish in some respects. But as a Linux addict for almost twenty years, I *really* can control the N900 in detail and I would at this point in time certainly buy another N900 if this one would be lost.

What I like:

The mappero navigation system works just fine.

Standby time has improved dramatically after the 1.3 update.

There is a fine webserver with PHP available, which really helps to write small applications with the browser as an interface, that work both on my PC and N900

Mind you, I write this from the perspective of a 17-year Linux eperience. YMMV

Paai