I'm surprised at the processor, I would've expected all of these new Androids to have something faster. This is clearly slower.

On the other hand, I don't see the big deal about whether there's 16 or 32 Gb etc. With proper services (Spotify etc. whatever Pandora you have in the US), nobody needs to be stuffing all their mp3s on a portable device anyway. The whole storage issue has lost it's point, in my mind, in pretty much devices of all types. Even 4 gigs is fine unless you have to haul your whole music library with you always. And for that, I'd need 100+ gigs anyway .

As a matter of fact, quite a few of the N900's features - while of course nice to have - seem a bit outdated in usefulness to me, large storage (who needs it with streaming services), FM radio (really? haven't listened to that in years), infrared (that was cool in the 90s). To each their own, though, but I wonder if many customers will care about radio or larger storage. Infrared at least is pretty much a joke, I can't see any "normal user" being able to use it for anything.

But if the processor makes this thing seem slow, that will be of course problems for this phone. On the other hand, the Hero is not slow after the latest update, so neither will this be probably.

Give credit where it is due. the droid is a nice phone, it is not an n900 nor is it an iphone. The non uber-techy/ guru perspecive - From a hw comparison, the n900 i more powerful, from a sw comparison the droid wins on a more vast more easily accessible library of apps.

Untill the n900 has the sw to match there it may be a comparable device.

The marketing... Im content with people poking holes in iphone, im quite sick of the marketing onslaught in the us by them. I would <3 to see comparable nokia adds in the US. Nokia phones, and the n900 in particular have the potential to be better than any current competitor and the space.

The challenge is if you are the market leader should you compare yourself to a lesser player? Or do you position yourself to stand alone, above the the rest?