Hey,
I've been reading almost every thread that popped here for about 3 weeks now, since I decided I want the N900 (I had a serious dilemma weather to choose the N900 or the Milestone but I ended up with the n900).
I got my N900 today and I finally decided to join.

For the past two years I've been an iPhone user. After a month of using the iPhone I understood that it really was just a gimmick and not a serious device (I have that opinion on every apple device, but that's for another discussion ). What I really missed with the iPhone is the "open-ness" and I think that the only device today that can offer that feature with such an amount of "freedom", so to speak, is the N900. I've been playing with it since early noon (Israel time) and it has yet ceased to amaze me. The only hiccup I had by now is pairing it to my Car's bluetooth stereo\handsfree (Kenwood KCA-200 bluetooth module).

The transition from the iPhone so far has been great, Multitasking is so strage for me, because as an iPhone user I didn't had any... So I'm constantly finding myself closing the browser instead of 'minimizing' it and such.
On the bottom line - N900 feels like home to me and so does this community as I'm a Linux expert at my job.

I'm looking forward to be an active part of this community and to contribute my knowledge and to learn from others.

welcome mate

Welcome!!!!!

Awesome, it is definitely a phone for you

G'day - always happy to see a new Linux expert on the forums

Shalom!!!!!!!!

My kind of guy - "After a month of using the iPhone I understood that it really was just a gimmick"

Welcome!

Heh,
I actually had a rather LOUD (though friendly) argument at work with one of my bosses about that very fact. I always compare the iPhone and say that it's the My first sony of smartphones. everything comes sort of 'preset' for you and you have to use everything within the constraints of the evil, evil apple. The guy from work said that I'll have nothing to do with the N900 because it has no apps... And I would be rather limited with it because I won't be able to use my bank's iphone app to access my account balance information and such. My claim was that I won't be needing those apps because the N900 has a fully capable browser. Btw, I've managed to access my account balance through my bank's website using microb flawlessly. I was amazed because Israeli web designers are not such big fans of the WC3 standards and almost all of the major websites in Israel are rendered rather horribly on anything other than IE. Even Israel's most popular news site, ynet.co.il was rendered perfectly on microb, on the iPhone I had to scroll with two fingers because the sites uses weird iframes.

I think we can all agree the iphone has a target audience out there. For example my girlfriend got an iphone last year, she loves it, she figured it all out in like a minute. She tried out my N900 and was confused for some reason even after I explained it.

I dunno what it is but some people just love their iphones hehe. Though I must admit capacitive is easier to get used to than the resistive screen imo.

lol 'My first sony' heheheh...

Now I can leave work with a smile today.