I'd advise you get an N97 or X6 instead. This thing doesnt do calls well (the hand free audio quality is poor, for example), doesnt do text well (no mms, no portrait keyboard, no t9 predictive input - yes I know we have community hacks to solve these but they are nowhere near as polished as symbian built in offerings) and even stuff like the media player choking when you load thousands of tunes onto the device (it has a 32 gig memory; what else are you supposed to do with it) just highlight its lack of polish

In its defence, the web browser is good..

Simply put: If youre after a mini computer for going on the web, and will occasionally make phone calls or send texts, buy an N900. If youre after a phone that does everything you've come to expect from a phone, plus a music player device and also can go on the net to look up quick bits of info etc, buy a symbian based nokia

That is truly not a certainty.

To come with a less than a month old quote: "Everybody should understand, that the whole MeeGo project has practically just started and we have to play catchup to even get to same level than Maemo 5 and Harmattan."

This is true, not only for MeeGo but for all new operating systems that are redesigned from scratch:

First version will have issues.

There will be foreseeable issues and there will be unforeseen issues. How bad those issues will be compared to Maemo 5, only time will tell. Maemo 5 was [mostly] built on Maemo 4, but MeeGo will be built on some blocks from Maemo 5 and some from Moblin [and more]. With Maemo 5 we knew that Maemo 4 had no PIM, so these office-like features would suffer. As it happens, they got quite a bit but not quite there. In example, many consider the calendar unusable.

I am quite certain that the calendar in the first MeeGo phone will be better than the N900 one. But I am not certain everything else will be better. I can imagine that the changes towards more Moblin-like components might be a problem for the development of projects like Easy Debian - I'm just guessing here. But that such changes WILL create issues is no guess.

We don't know how much time Nokia will spend on polishing the N9/N9-xx. What we do know is that it's a long way till MeeGo is perfect. And we're already starting to see leaks of the N9?

If you're only buying one phone this year, and it feels natural to wait for the N9, I would. Because the future is in MeeGo, not GTK+Maemo. But I can't guarantee it'll be a better phone than the N900.

The N900 is some srs bsns. If you buy this phone, you buy the most powerful phone yet. [When it comes to being a computer alternative]