- preorders alone run to hundreds of thousands, I think it is mass-market...
- N900 costs 599 EUR here in Italy. iPhone costs 720 EUR.
- Finland is in the north.
- N900 on contract can be free (e.g. UK) and T-mobile US is expected to run it subsidized.
- N900 has nice application repositories, besides the coming Ovi Store. Choice is good.
- It does not run Symbian, but Maemo, a Linux-based OS. (That's why it is exciting, Symbian is old news indeed.)

there you go: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/smartphone-wars-nokia-n900-versus-htc-hd2-versus-motorola-droid-five.htm

Normally, I'm not easy on Engadget's mistakes on Nokia - but @Btdt, there was none in this post.

It is a new generation of _smartphones_ and the first mass-market appeal Maemo device (hence the "future" starting now).

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/c05693a1-265c-4c7f-a389-fc227db4c465/Maemo_5_SDK.html

@Chris: there is a much better review out there - http://my-symbian.com/other/preview_n900.php

that one is also based on a proto device, but at least not the stolen, cannot-do-firmware-update-because-Nokia-would-catch-me-Eldar's N900 version from last year.

I think it could be the N97. It was seamless on my 5800 and quite buggy on my N97.

Try an N97 for example. The space bar (the most used key) is placed under your thumb, perfectly.
I don't want space bars in the middle anymore, I want to reach them without reaching :)

I wonder how it compares to iGo My way (http://www.igomyway.com/en/), which is quite popular in Europe and where a US navi version is 80 USD... (A mount for 114 USD in the TomTom package seems excessive).

Good point about Nokia - we are able to sync audio, photos, videos, contacts etc. but the Ovi Suite for Mac was promised for beta in December! It's July if anyone counting...

http://www.renegadefanboy.com/2008/11/nokia-confesses-to-working-on-ovi-suite-for-mac/

@Thomas Ricker, a couple of points, which are also interesting (besides the 66% profit drop):

- Nokia Ovi active users are now 46 million (Ovi Store, Maps etc.)
- smartphone sales are up 23% compared to Q1
- Nokia 5800 sold 7 million is 7 months. That's an estimated 12 million in 12 months
- sales, marketshare and smartphone marketshare all increased compared to Q1

- Ovi user numbers collected in 10 months and expected to surpass Facebook active user numbers in about 14 months time. It is also about 10x of the estimated MobileMe user numbers (started the same time).