No hardware keyboard. Fail.
You can add BT Keyboard and mouse. Not ideal I agree. But multitouch software keyboard is faster than n900 I bet.

Lower resolution LCD. Fail.
Never really have problems with PDF and webpages at that screen size.

Can't play xvid / wmv. Fail.
Jailbroken yxflash.

Need to use itunes. Fail.
You don't if its jailbroken.

No MicroSD slot. Fail.
32GB is fine for 99% of population. I am sure the next phone out soon will be twice as big.

Proposing jailbreaking as a solution - fail.
It's a cumbersome process, it's officially unsupported by Apple, it voids the warranty, it needs to be repeated every time there's a firmware update and it makes Steve Jobs sad.

Having a phone that does that out of the box without issues - win.

People have bricked their iphones really badly when trying to jailbreak them, it's much safer to use extra devel repo in N900 than constantly jailbreak your iphone.

THe only thing that annoys me about the iPhone is that there are some really useful apps (for me) that I really wish could or would be ported to the n900 then I would be happier

But the apps that I would like that are on the iphone are not even close to make me consider getting one, it would just be nice if I could have them on my n900 as it is so more versatile, I hope with time these apps will appear in the repositries

I like the last bit about console vs PC. I'm asuming this is referring to gaming... lol!

the N900....what a phone

i have some friends that had it cracked day one here in san jose/cupertino.

they crack them everyday...funny, even apple employees go to see them! and it's "illegal" lmao

I came from the Nokia N97, and had the option of getting an iPhone.. but I am so glad I didn't!! There are so many things that the N900 has got that the iPhone doesn't (and vice-versa) but for me I love the concept of the N900. Built around Linux, which itself means the phone is open to more mods than the iPhone (unless you jailbreak). I already have an iPod Touch, which I will still use for my music as that is it's primary function, I couldn't ever lose that. I just feel there is so much more going for the N900, more than the iPhone!!

The main thing that hacked me off about the iPhone, as I found out when my dad got his, is the ringtone situation.. you pretty much have to buy them from the iTunes Store, and I feel that is wrong!! Not sure if when you jailbreak you can use your own?

I think there is a JB app called Anyring, havent used it.

Thing for me is the iphone will be the perfect phone and smartphone in the next version of it (I am assuming flash camera and hi res/cpu upgrade etc).

But it will never be a computer running GIMP etc I don't thing the n900 is particularly good at either being a phone, smartphone or computer from what I have read but the potential is there once software is added and optimised. Or perhaps it will occur with the next generation of meego devices.

Interestingly the nexus one has just booted debian natively off its hardware - no chrooting malarkey. No phone features or bluetooth but thats similar to n900 right. So it will be interesting to keep tabs on that.