to be honest: when i bought the phone i thought, well thats a start for a linux phone. maybe some tweaks and it could be a showcase for a linux phone.
it took me few hours - at most a week to be sure: not possible. easier to replace the whole thing than to put it straight. now again replacing the whole thing is a problem for some closed cruft.
both together prevent from my point of view the phone from using it as a flagship that shows what a linux phone is capable of.

maybe i am not the smartest but if i look around it seems that no other was smart enough to do the trick. no matter if nitroid, debian, ubuntu, shr or whatever you take: nobody was able to get the thing up and running smoothly. so who can?

only now that it is almost outdated we get slowly the necessary stuff. and no surprise, as soon as the cruft is opened a little, everywhere something gets done: shr came out yesterday or was it 2 days ago? nitroid got it mostly running. ubuntu's phone stack supports n900(but the rest ...) and so on. and why is this? why not in the first place put the stuff in the open? and sure we can see the effect: now things start to work. and it will be for the benefit of maemo as well as will potentially get improved stuff for the device from upstream - unfortunately a little late and still obstacles to overcome.

like i said: maybe i am not the smartest. but nobody? i love to hear the experience of others. but i feel i cannot recommend the device to a casual user if i /and all the others/ have a hard time to really get it going.

and with some comments i get the impression of a "its a feature not bug" attitude i am confronted with.

i got the impression that it is easier to replace maemo than to fix it. nokia got that impression. was it maemos fault: i don't know. you tell me. but i have a felling that meego did a huge step in the right direction(thats the big movement we see out of a sudden) but doubt that it was big enough. and that step was not qt.