So last night I'm sitting in a motel room. I plugged the N900 into the TV, not really expecting much remembering the somewhat disappointing video out of the N95. Surprise! The video looks very good. I started a movie and was able to control it using the BT keyboard sitting a comfortable distance away. I don't know if that's a wow moment, but it sure made the evening a little more entertaining.

After a bit longer, my wow - in pictures

i guess my WOW moment would have been earlier tonight... had the browser open to pandora to listen to some music and a friend IMs me and we chat for a good 30 minutes all the while he's sending me links to different articles. All this time i also have my email app open and another browser viewing my google reader page, and the multitasking was working flawlessly! And then my WOW moment turned into a wow moment as every webpage open became unresponsive, couldnt reload the pages couldnt close the pages but at least it didnt interfere with the other open apps. After being unresponsive for about 5 minutes a system message finally popped up and asked if I wanted to close the unresponsive webpages so at least it fixed itself eventually. Other than that my experience thus far with the phone have been generally positive

I've had quite a few moments with this wonderful device
the first time I saw any parts of liqbase running on my n900 I was blown away.
I sent a bug report into nokia "this device runs too fast, please slow it down"

the most rewarding however has to be this: http://liqbase.net/liqflow_test.AVI

ive wanted to do it for years - its the closest I've gotten to touching my own code.
the video was taken about 10 minutes after I made it and I added accelerometer control to it not long after.
lots of people like it, its simple and effective

addendum, this is how it looks when used with others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk27PenpAz0

wow moments...
good:
conversations
linux!
easy debian
camera
browser

bad:
email sucks. imap, mfe, nokia messenging... all have horrible bugs
maps is REALLY lacking
calendar & contact sync... no google sync support, no pc/mac clients yet? what the hell??

i cant believe the most basic communication functionality is so bad. fix the bugs!!!

Too much information.......

Yes, when i was in my gfs car and the fm transmitter worked flawlessly, we live in a pretty populated area and i was very impressed it worked perfectly.

Hopefully that one doesn't get closed as "fixed in harmattan"

my wow moment was when i took it in to work. we were watching music videos on you tube and playing it through our stereo speakers with the fm transmitter. childish i know! but i was so impressed. i love this phone, it's a keeper, it's a dream to use after my blackberry storm.

sounds off topic, but [edit: speaking of apple] do you think that apple deliberately restrict something that can jeopardize its device performance and aesthetics by not having multitasking the way people like? i mean, i can tolerate the quirk in eye-candy as long as I can many things done (i've seen n900s does 'quirk' when a lot of programs open). I also experienced on macbook that it seems like apple restrict the speed of the dvd so it's less noisy.