Yeah, I know, that's how I broke my first N900 device. Now I bought a hard leather case from e-bay, and I am going to attach a wrist band to it. Safety first!

http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Beginners
It's all the basic information you never knew

tell me about it...
The one and only fall of my white N9 still gives me the chills

Thank you, with the phone functions I am very familiar. I wanted tips and tricks about how to keep the device physically intact without problems like the usb port, the sim reader. What to do, and what not to do.

The fall of my N900 was because my headphones cable got tied up with the charger, the headphones got stuck under my chair, i tripped on the cable, n900 falls down with the power of a thousand suns with the port facing exact the impact point... I was like f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck... Picked up, pulled out the cable and the port just came out with the cable... I allmost had tears in my eyes.

Now after that, my new (s-h) N900 is being treated better than a princess!