The N900 is not a particularly great phone. Hardware-wise its critical limitations are the lack of a USB host port, weak GPS chipset, and no multi-touch. I know reviewers have dragged on and on about the "lack" of a capacitive screen, but they are wrong. There are resistive screen technologies that do implement multi-touch. The resistive touch screen on the N900 allows me and another person to play a game of chess using a coffee stirrer straw-as-stylus - not possible to do on a capacitive screen! Software-wise the Maemo OS has at least the absolute minimum to make this hardware usable. Sadly enough, the forward facing webcam has an incomplete Maemo OS driver which results in a grainy off balance image. The one fact of using the device I did not find immediately obvious was tapping the upper right corner to close the current context... any visual cue of this necessity is blurred by a screen effect. Otherwise there is a lot of potential (and actual probable updates to come) for the software to catch up with the market-leading hardware. Very impressive is the stock integration of Skype, SMS, and IM messaging. Conversations are threaded based on your phone's address book of contacts. What other phone does that? The N900 is a computer communications terminal with a phone built in for cellular connectivity. No regrets dropping $530usd (before $50 gift card rebate) on what has easily become a mobile web browsing laptop - in a much smaller footprint.Get more detail about Nokia N900 Unlocked Phone/Mobile Computer with 3.5-Inch Touchscreen, QWERTY, 5 MP Camera, Maemo Browser, 32 GB--U.S. Version with Full Warranty.
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