I have only had it for a few months,
bought mine imported as it was not even marketed here at that time,
- and already we are discussing tossing them in the rubbish bin

From what I said 5 months ago - I took my own advice

Another n900 to use as a development tool (already did)

and another spare n900 just in case I dropped mine in the water again
(already did that)

two spare batteries


The reality is the Androids (bought one of those for family)
do not even hold a candle to the n900 (yet)

The 'n9' (or whatever it will be labelled) story has not arrived yet
If Nokia pulls a stunt like
locking up the operating system with DRM to satisfy vendors and carriers,
hobbling the phone with various apps that either cannot be removed
or cannot be worked around ' for proprietary reasons'.
and (very likely to occur build a hardware suicide-pill intp the machine
so they or the carriers can unilaterally brick your handset at whim.

Then the reality is the show is over,
and there will never be anything ever as cool as the n900.

Already the store shelves here are empty of n900s,
the official Nokia service center had to borrow a battery from me
to even look at an n900 - the show is over, folks.

There will be phones with f@rt-app stores,
closed-garden phones, virus-me-now!now!now phones,
and all the knockoffs you will ever wish to unsee,
but a phone like the n900 with a community like this one
will be a very long wait into the future.