I'm pleased with these numbers. Symbian phones greatly outnumber iPhones, yet the ratio of iPhone upraders is similar to the ratio of sales. So it looks like Nokia's target market is attracting folks equally from both OSes
I'm coming from WinMo, PalmOS and a short stink with the iPhone. I've had my N900 for almost a week, and with T-Mobile service it is SUPERB. I love this thing, it truly is a mobile computer, and I can see myself retiring my UX180P with this.
Currently using an E71, which I will continue to use alongside the N900 (though may upgrade to E72). Previously a succession of WinMo devices (I like a lot of things about Windows MObile esp. since our business is in the MS ecosystem, but ultimately it was just too unreliable and frustrating to use though custom ROMs helped a bit - an HTC Diamond was the last WinMo phone) and a Sanyo Katana DLX featurephone. I have to say that the best phone was the Sanyo Katana (bulletproof, quick, responsive - for the phone use scenario) and I've yet to find a smartphone that compares to featurephones for use as a phone.
I can understand going for the N900 over the Hero just fine, different feature sets (great Google service support vs. more Linux-y "computer" experience), but I wouldn't blame this on HTC in any manner. I think they improved on Anrdoid 1.5 a lot. I have the Hero, and I love what HTC did to it (as in "pretty" vs. "ugly" in stock Android 1.5). The first Hero firmware was slow, the update that came very quickly, however, is very fast.The only big criticism I can find about the phone is that it doesn't have a hardware keyboard. Other than that, it's very nice. Certainly way nicer than any Symbian phone I've used (E70, N80, N95, N79, E71).
the last "Smart"phone I owned was an Freerunner Neo (Openmoko). Unfortunately I cannot write my opinion on that device without violating the forum rules.
Well one good thing about the Openmoko: My wife happily agrees on spending a fortune on a real phone - guess which one.
Me had switched from Symbian device. I do not see any reasonable Symbian devices and I need computer-like features, IM mail and VoIP more than PSTN voice calls most of times. So n900 is almost perfect choice for me (at least I failed to find something better for my usage pattern). While symbian completely sucks as PDA and IM/mail/VoIP and looks like it hit dead end. N95? It costs like a hell but it can't do much more than my (much older) Symbian phone! So what's the clue to buy it at all? Imho N95 is one of weirdest Nokia's phone ever (together with n97 and such). Symbian is not well suited for high-end devices. Ok, Nokia going to improve it but I think Maemo is a better way to go for hi-end "multimedia computers". Maemo fits this role much better than Symbian did. Let's say n900 is a first device from Nokia where I can actually use stock multimedia player without dreaming to uninstall it as soon as possible. In Symbian phones multimedia player is a bad joke. It's also was not so great in n8x0. On n900 it has become anyhow usable at least. Since I can install codecs and it would become less picky in what it going to play. Otherwise Nokia's players are useless since they can't play 90% of files I had even if they not require a large horsepower. So, good job, Nokia. Keep on improving this promising platform and it hopefully would kick the asses of androids and iphones :-).
Haven't ordered the N900 yet, but have operated a 9300 for not-quite three years.
That 9300 has a great keyboard, and a beautiful display. I live and die via email, and the combination of the 9300 and Blackberry Internet Service has been really nice.
The 9300's browser is only so-so, and because the ATT EDGE network is so slow, I normally operate the browser with image display disabled.
On the plus side, there are a couple of S80 apps that I find very useful - Google Maps and an SSH client. I'll miss the former when I get my N900, but perhaps not much.
