The problem with these threads, and the posts that start them, is that they say nothing new and are not "constructive criticism" but the reiteration of old news and quickly devolve into stupid arguments.

It also doesn't help that one person's experience is totally subjective, with problems that may be actual problems or simply are the result of user perception or outright user error.

I've had my N900 for just shy of a year and haven't had a single problem that wasn't software related, and pretty much all of them have been fixed. Yet somehow his angry rant and resulting flamewar is valuable but my generally uneventful year with the device would be regarded as blatant fanboyism.