i agree with this guy

My crystal ball is broken, so I can't predict what my next phone will be.

It may be a Nokia, or it may be something totally different. While I like the N900 and I think it's a fine device, it doesn't mean that it's the end all of devices/phones. We'll see what the next 6 months bring us.

Well the N900 is a mobile computer right? It is a ultraportable tablet, not a netbook, full size laptop or a full size tablet

I have personally reduced the time I spend on my full size laptop at home by probably close to 90%, my father says about the same thing for him. That relieves me of lugging around 5-6lbs of computer, charger and other stuff.

If the N900 could do the things above I´d just leave my laptop at the office in the afternoon and weekends.

With a bluetooth keyboard (which currently doesn´t work after the week 46/51 firmware update), the N900 and plugging the N900 into any of my LCD tv´s I´ve got almost everything I need as far as evening/weekend computing is required. I don´t do heavy games any more so no need for more processing power than that.

I´ve mapped my 3TB drobo NAS from the N900 so I´ve got all my digitalized CD´s on hand as well as all my digital photos.

I know, with easy debian you can do the printing and the picture editing in Gimp. I´ve already got that set up. But easy debian is not native maemo

And I never said that PDF editing was a "basic" feature, I just said I´d be in absolute heaven if I could do that.

How can this question be answered. I just got my N900 in December and I love it. Does that mean my next phone will be a Nokia/Maemo phone?
Not at all.
I will buy the "phone" I think is best suited for me. At the moment N900 is just that. No other phone has the kind of capabilities the N900 has, not even close. I love how someone put this. I'll give him credit if he sees this and claims it as his frase:

The N900 is a baby with super-powers. It hasn't learned to use all of them yet, but it is learning fast.

Jumping the grun from my first nokia (3310) to the n900 (With all other brands inbetween) i think my best device out of the 12 odd phones since then would have to be the d500, my winmo phones wizzard and universal were good, but not too well built.

N900 promises to make me look onto nokia for much more products.

My next phone was going to be the N900 but the limitations and firmware problems led me to hold off. The omission of the N900 from the Ovi maps announcement made me decide to wait to see what the the Dell Streak offers.

I'm not looking for Acrobat and Office functionality in my phone YET. I have a pocketable Win7 UMPC that does that for me. But in a year I expect to see that capability on my next next phone (and it better have a bigger screen than the N900 because my eyes aren't getting any better).

Nokia?