i went in for a tablet and i sure got my money's worth....

I had n95 then n97 and now n900 because it has 3D gaming. Considering how it can support it, I'm a bit disappointed on the limited games it will provide. I wish it was like the iPhone with all the developers support. Secondly because it runs on a desktop browser, also a bit disappointed because of the battery life. With so much data transferring the battery dies so fast. Overall the experience I wanted the most was 3D gaming like iPhones, I hope Nokia deliver us more games from developers like EA and so on

Sadly, I agree with you. I see Nokia moving farther and farther away from my dream device, so I'm not going to be happier with the next one, that's for sure. Get your last Maemo device that's usable with a stylus while you can!

(EDIT: Clarification: I love the N900. It is my most favoritest device ever. However, if I had designed it, it would be more like an N800 and less like an iPhone. And Nokia's only going to get more iPhone and less N800 with every new device, so, oh well, poor me.)

My first real phone was a Nokia 3210.
But I always wanted phones with a special character. I bought the Nokia 5510, 3650 and the N-Gage. Enjoying the Symbian Series 60 Version on this mobiles.
After this I did my biggest jump in mobile technology with the 9500 Communicator. Although it is this old it's still in use and it eats most smartphones around.
With the killing of Series80 and Series90 I tried severeal other companies and their phones, SE M600i, SE Xperia X1, HTC Touch Pro and so on but now landed at the Nokia 7710. N95 had a very bad case quality so I didn't stay with it - and now it must be the N900 and I hope I'll repeat this big jump I did with the 9500 and the N900 will stay with me a very long time cause I'm fed up with finding a phone doing what I want.

Great thread! I started a poll asking about which platforms we're all coming from, so in case you haven't seen it yet take a peek and please answer the poll.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35033

Because I got sick of a certain fruity company telling me what I could and could not do and how I should and should not use the product I *bought* from them.

Plus the phone rocks.

I got my N900 because the 2010 HTC Roadmap still didnt reveal a qwerty-featured Android phone. I was so dissapointed, and even though I love Android, I just coulndt live with the qwerty-less Hero.

Also, Maemo seems very interesting and being a Linux fanatic, I just coulndt resist.. even if its made by Nokia! >.<

I was looking to replace my Dell Axim, with something that had basic phone and a good data conection. Only had my N900 one day so far but i love it.

I use the Stylus a lot, so glad its there. Would have preffered a slightly bigger screen but i'll live and not struggling too much (though i havent installed my ebook reader yet)

lots of it easy to use. some less so (havent got IM working properly and integrated yet) but as im looking at it like a new computer with an OS im not familiar with thats fine, im not expecting to know and us everything at once. but will live with the more complex for the added advantages it offers.


Having never had a nokia product before, im pretty impressed that i made the right choice to meet my needs

Use Nokias for many years, after a Moto and a Siemens I bought my first Nokia End of 90s...
And was almost happy with them...
Saw a "brikett" (as we say in Germany (briquet)) and fell in love with the Communicator-Series, because i could throw away my organizers (tried a lot of them)...
9110, 9210, 9210i, 9500... But then... E90... Nokia called it "communicator" but in real it was only a f* piece of bs...
S60 an nice OS... for gamer kiddies and their gamer phones^^ But the golden times when it was possible to *work* with a commi died with S80... for example the cropped searchroutines in contacts...
I hates so much on this very expensive crap that i never wanted to buy a nokia again... but... other ones like Moto Milestone seem to have a lot of bugs too...

Worst at Nokias was the soft, why not trying a N900... Maybe even nice hardware... and software by a great community, not by the [beep] symbians...

And so i am here, still not really sure whether to hold the n900 or give it back to the dealer... umh... some things are real pita - but i think i love it to much to give it away... it is what i ever wanted... a phone and a small(^^) mobile computer in one - where you can do the things you really need (contacts, calendat f.e.) even as things you want to play with...

It has some problems. some will be fixed i hope, some (crappy battery) must be tolerated until new models...
But it is a nice piece of hardware with a great software and a big chance that that software will become even greater....

i got my n900 because I cant stand winmo.

I need, msn, sat nav, and be able to remote my device from a pc - i could do that with my htc diamond, but winmo i found to be awful.

n900 flies - but limited apps for a noob like me - who wont touch root with a bargepole.