I bought my n900 about 3 months ago -- way after all the hype had died down. I consider this to be one of the most amazing and capable phones I have ever owned -- just what I always wanted. So what if it isn't popular? If it were, there would only be too many *****s running around with a cellular device that, among others, even provides wireless packet injection capabilities. I mean - are you kidding me?

Among those who know (and those are all that count) this phone has already achieved cult status - and not for being an expensive toy for adults. It already has a spot reserved in the history books as perhaps the only truly open cell device to be sold to the public.

And as someone else here put it so well: years from now when you have finally moved on, you wil still be able to use this amazing device for *something* -- that's how versastile it

Right now I wouldn't trade this phone for 10 Iphone 5s if I could. Irrespective of public setiments regarding this phone, I consider it a wild success, beyond anything one might realistically have hoped for.