Wow never known a review to be so different to my expereinces. My N900 can't play half the stuff I throw at it, or crashes half way and scrolling, browsing and general movement on the HTC is far superior. Battery I don't know but google maps doens't chew up half my battery like ovi maps in less than half an hour and it isn't chewing up CPU with index tracker.

It does multitask, I have used one and done it so confused yours doesn't.

HTC is a better build quality and hardware keyboard is overrated if you don't have a working word editing app.

The HTC desire I have been working with urinates on the N900, all my colleagues and friends have gone for that or the iphone. I just can't stretch to the price tag at the mo'.

But I guess it is what you want from a phone, a working OS and a marketplace with choice, or a brick you can customise with limited apps in a final state.