In theory the only reason why pople call it a phone and a smart phone and a mobile computer blah blah. Is because they look at 2 things, what the OS is and then the screen size. (Some people take into acount a full qwerty keyboard too)

Honestly though it is more of a mobile computer if it has to catogery. I mean you'd think most people would be happy with the the "product" and not need to debate what the hell it is. Although I strongly do agree with a lot of you that it is not (Just a phone)

The reason why it put it in that catogery is because it can do all the things the Nokia Booklet 3G can. Except for run Win7 and do all the processing. Simply because if the N900 was made to do all that it would have a bigger screen and the battery would be the same size as the device lol

So there is my take on things.

You tell me a "phone" that can run Maemo, Android, Meego, Ubuntu, Windows 95. Most of them on a multiboot configuration.

Also you tell me a phone that you can make and receive calls not using any credit, if you insert a mobile broadband sim card you can with this via all the voice services intergrated with the device... Better still, no sim card just connected to a wirless network. In town or at home.

& remember "Mobile" does not mean its a phone. Mobile meand it's smaller and easier to move around, more efficient.

Mobile CPUs, Mobile Homes, Mobile Missiles, Mobile Phones, Mobile Netbooks, but yes Most of those are related to "Mobile Tecnology"