Some weeks ago i got de Samsung galaxy S for my birthday. I started using it but after a few weeks I changed it back for my N900. I missed the multitasking and the keyboard. I OC'd the N900 to 1 ghz and installed Nitrdroid on it with multiboot. I still like de N900 better than the Galaxy, and in my honest opinion theres no better phone for me. I use it for my business (mail and excel) and for fun (OC, android, games).

I bought the almighty SGS2 and used it past 2 weeks. Then I sold it and am back to using my N900 for the same reasons as you pretty much. (and MicroB)

I do miss the 4.3" SAMOLED+ screen and watching HD videos on it though.

I've lost n900 a couple of months ago, and thought that It's time to change the device to something that is not dead upstream. Since I can't imagine myself using phone without qwerty keyboard, I bought HTC Desire Z.

After a week or two with that, I've realized that Android is just so worse that Maemo that using HTC is a continuous frustration.
No normal multitasking (that means, you try to open a non-default mail folder and, while it is being loaded over slow connection, switch to something other. Then, when you return to mail app, it gets current folder lost, and shows default folder again).
Although hardware keyboard is there, it is not very useful - because all apps assume portrait mode and, when turned landscape, have only tiny part of interface visible.
Skype application looses 60% of screen space for screen candy - and only a small column for actual chat content.

Etc etc

So I sold that device and got an n900 again. Now using that.

Long live N900!

I can't think of any other electronic device I have ever owned that has given me better value for money.

I don't usually buy new stuff - I'm pretty frugal, but the combination of features on N900 was all I needed for a nearly one year long bike tour (currently in Thailand; started cycling from UK). The GPS, cam and video cam, WiFi (no paying for net cafes), real web browser (offline copies of WikiTravel pages have saved me tons of money on hotels alone!), Xterm and unsurpassed scriptability (I regularly rsync my photos/vids/other data back to my linux box)... I'm learning Chinese Mandarin with it too, and just developed my first Python app and got it into extras-devel.

I'd buy another one (2nd hand) in a heartbeat if something happened to this one. Hell, I've come close to buying another one regardless of still having this one.

I'll follow the N950 or whatever but it'll have to be damn good to lure me away...

And for me.

After watching various videos showing android UI I realised I could not live with it as compared to maemo the OS is so limited. Things like put the default flip clock on a homescreen you then are able to put additional EIGHT icons underneath, no more. Most widgets take up the whole screen etc. iOS is even bigger joke, in this sense.

Count me in!! I don't care what the haters say this is the best electronic device I ever had!!

i miss porn.. in HD..

I tried xperia and galaxy s also iphone4 (my friend's)but i like only N900

it is surly my "true n best friend"

i totally ****ing agree

Me too -- I recently got TWO Android devices and found that my N900 runs circles around them -- it is faster, has BETTER software, and runs MORE videos than they do. I didn't expect this to be the case, and maybe top of the line Android devices would do better. I returned the EEE Pad Transformer to Amazon but decided to keep the Entourage Pocketable Edge, but I am still using the N900 to read RSS feeds and to play certain videos. I am using the Amazon marketplace as well as the Entourage marketplace, by the way, but I still find the N900 repositories better. For example, I have only found a few ways to play video and have so far found ZERO ways to play mp3s on the Edge, though the same mp3s play instantly on my N900, of course. I'm sure I'll find out how to play mp3s, but it amazes me that I haven't found them yet.