I think N900 is fine device. It has it's drawbacks, mostly anoying battery, but still. N900 is pretty powerfull tool when you take it out of the box. IM, skype, relatively good mail client, the best mobile browser out there, nice RSS-feed reader. For someone these alone would be good enough.

BUT after installing some repositories to app. manager you get media player that supports nealy all audio files that you might need, I'm not sure about the ape files though. SSH client which is huge must have linux nerd like me. Though there aren't as many apps available for maemo as there is for iPhone or android there are some pretty nice apps and more coming all the time.

And unlike most of the Symbian phones that Nokia has released N900 is said to get firmware updates that really does fix bugs.

With the anoyances that N900 has now I wouldn't change back to E51 that I had before, If I had had Android phone I wouldn't be sure (never had one) but if Nokia gets those bugfixes out N900 will be even better.

So if you are person that likes technology and it this case even more like phones N900 is imo must have gadget.

You guys have waay too much money for your age. When I was seventeen I was starving in a garret as a poor, broke student who couldn't afford a paper diary. Mind, cell phones weren't invented then. Or even PDAs. Or home computers, now I think about it.

It's great to see young people excited about maemo and n900 (bodes well for its future). But remember how lucky you are... now when I were a lass we didn''t have... [/old fart]

lol when i was 17 my money went on fast cars and fast women. my first phone was sony mars bar! anyone remember them? how mobiles have changed in last 17 yrs....from a not soo old fart lol

I was recycling phones every like 2 weeks. The n900 seems to have stayed for 1 month now. I'm on T-mobiles so i refuse to go away from the 3G now. I hope to learn what this n900 can do and hopefully customize it fully. ^_^

yea... I'm 16 years old and I know how lucky I am to have everything I need. My parents work hard and I'm not a spoiled kid. In fact, I had to work hard (well, not that hard) to get the n900 and I can 't wait till it gets here! I'm a maemo enthusiast and i'm really looking forward to help this community.

rock on ppl!

well i'm 20 still in college but made some cracking investments at the stock markets and voila i was in the green to buy this phone...i;m loving it...let the hacking begin..just installed easy debian...amazing stuff i say

Im 18 and got my n900 here in Pakistan last week,gotta say its pretty amazing,lucky perhaps not to have encountered any bugs uptil now..My people are Iphone and Blackberry lovers but now that i have this,i can safely say they're jealous ..Still,waiting for the update though

hey, same here ! but i'm 16 y old... compared to my previous n95 8gb which was quite good 2 y ago and still now the n900 is the best, and i love it ^^

/me feels very old.

Nice attitude...