Cool! I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine.

On iPhone vs. n900: I've had a 1st generation iPhone for four years. The thing is downright beautiful, as well as being built strong as a tank. Honestly, I think today's iPhone still outclasses all the competition in sheer design brilliance; the guys at Apple just know how to create a piece of hardware that looks good and does its job well. Heck, mine still looks good just sitting there on my desk.

But, for me, that's really the problem with the iPhone; all I really ever did with it is look at it as it sat there on my desk. Yeah, it's got all those amazing cool little apps; but most of the time, I just have better things to do than play around with cool little apps. In the month or so I've had my n900, the thing has rarely been out of my hands -- I'm browsing web pages that are just a pain to use on an iPhone, answering e-mail with a real keyboard (trying to hit virtual keys on a hard glass screen gets to be literally painful), even composing files using Vim (my favorite text editor!). I can easily pull up an xterm and examine the processes running on the machine, or log into one of my desktop machines and perform administrative or other tasks on them. The full power of Linux is just sitting there in my hands, wherever I go...

To me, an iPhone (or, honestly, an Android phone) is a device you buy to play around with or show off. The n900 is a device you can use to get actual work done. That makes all the difference.