Personal preference. I would've been much less likely to buy it if it was capacitive. Give me portrait mode system wide, and to me this phone is complete - or at least enough to make me truly fulfilled with this phone.

(If possible, higher Flash versions, and some hardware mods for better RAM, CPU, and multitouch resistive would be lovely, but let's face it, those aren't happening in the reasonably close future.)

Again, personal preference. There's plenty of people who like Symbian just fine. It doesn't match the mass-accepted American smart phone experience, but it goes just fine with most of the world, last I checked. I DO think Symbian isn't that great, but like iOS, it's good at what it's made for, exceptionally so. It just can't reach outside its box; but neither can iOS. It's just the masses like the iOS box more than the Symbian box nowadays. But not to worry. In a few more generations, Apple gadgets won't be cool anymore, they'll be the stuff you saw your parents and grandparents growing up with. And everyone knows that ****'s never attractive to the next generation.[/QUOTE]

Nothing much to say. If it's not coming with those shitty custom-firmware-flashing-ROM-sabotaging things, you can always get the latest Android on it, I'm sure, if you know where to look.

Eh, could be a one-time thing. Though if you've looked around and many Galaxy S's are that fragile, you can always just make sure you have it in a full-body case (leather or something similar) so that it cushions the impact if you do drop it.

Everything? (Resists urge to ramble about utterly closed OS, Alarm bugs that they keep having over and over apparently, disemboweled bluetooth stack, stripped functionality, limited "multitasking", the abysmal auto-correct when typing, etc, etc... [well, I resisted going into detail when rambling].)

Honestly, the antenna thing isn't that big of a deal. It's pretty much a matter of luck as to whether or not you have the wrong hands for the phone. If your hands work with it, you'll be fine. If your hands happen to have just the right composition/oiliness to short the antennas, you're screwed, but you can buy a bumper for like 10 dollars and problem solved.

I think, if you honestly believe the iPhone is the 'ultimate experience', then buy one, if you have the antenna problem, buy a bumper, and it'll be worth it. I don't think it's perfect - but if it's perfect for what YOU want in a phone, then go for it. Not sure how much you'll really feel you're happy with it if you actually do like the N900, which you seem to based on your other posts, but you know yourself best, I hope.

If it's perfect for you, getting a slim bumper/case to avoid the antenna issue would definitely be worth it.

Ah, what it feels like to dream. Reminds me of earlier in this post when I was contemplating hardware-modding the N900 into non-impending-obsolescence. Those were the days. Ah the nostalgia.

Seriously, my recommendation to you, is consider if the iPhone is really perfect for you, and if the only thing stopping you is the antenna, get it anyway, because it's only a small chance you'll be effected by it, and if you are, it's not that expensive to get a bumper to avoid the issue.