By that I mean, when I got it, I really wanted to practice linux commands. I thought wow I can learn some bash programming and all the core gnu commands. Well truthfully, being my first smart phone I got caught up in the "missing apps" game. The reality is all I ever needed was a working internet connection, email (just gmail), a good ebook reader (thanks much ron1n for fbreader) and possible a gps what could talk (thanks martin k I kind of like hearing about a peekway as opposed to a parkway).

Well I forgot my original reason till about a week ago when I finally read some stuff on the forums about installing bash as opposed to busy box as my default shell, putting /usr/bin/gnu first in the path and installing all gnuish and linuxish things from the app manager.

Well I manipulated my xterm keys and the strip to get all the common symbols (> | - / etc) easily accessable...Its like a new device now. I am taking a new minutes a day to work with all the great linux/unix tools that I will someday need to know (when I get a linux job) and I am loving the device again...

So what about you? Have you "rediscovered" your n900? What did you buy it for over say an iphone or a android to begin with?