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Get a replacement N900 as long as they're out there!
There will be no other phone that can replace the N900 within the next 5-10 years.
The only player on the market that would create a similar but updated phone like the N900 is Openmoko. But they don't have the resources to actually do that.
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One problem is that as well as as well-tweaked N900 runs (compared to a stock one), it's slooooow compared to the new crop of Android phones. Also, apps/updates are slow to arrive; for example, the extra media decoders haven't been add-to in a long time and I'm starting to find video files it can't play. Not too big a deal now, but it'll just get worse, not better. As nice as the N900's screen was in its time, it looks HORRIBLE compared to some of the newer phones.
Want a new case? You're limited to cheap chinese sweatshop goods on ebay and whatever retailers have in stock from 2 years ago. I wanted to buy an Otterbox yesterday and found that I couldn't...out of stock everywhere, and it's probably not coming back.
I moved to my backup phone, a Nokia Nuron (5230) running an early touch screen version of Symbian. This brought back memories of just how crappy a product Nokia is capable of making. It is slow and laggy doing just about everything, menu selections sometimes require double clicks (seemingly at random), and I was guaranteed out-of-memory messages if I even thought about using the web browser. Horrible product I bought a couple years ago because it supports Tmobile USA's 3g frequencies. After about two days of this, I was fed up and this was unaccpetable.
From the depths of a drawer came my 4ish year old N95 (original version). It ancient S60 OS also suffered from out-of-memory problems too but far less frequently and given its age and better fitting speedier user interface, was much more forgivable. I was reminded just how fast you can type with a 12 key phone pad with good predictive text, just how loud and clear the speakers are (yes, better than the N900), and how nice it is to have a tiny phone as opposed to a brick. After a few days though, I was ready to have my N900 back.
When it did return, I immediately got to work and about 8 hours later had it back in action with latest cssu, apps, tweaks, and bugs worked out (damn that flaky Conversations IM module!). It's ridiculously fast and does everything I could ask.
While it was gone, I looked at just getting a whole new phone but there is no equal. The new android phones are very fast and have nice screens but the OS (2.x) just feels like a modernized version of Symbian...multitask and when the OS feels like it, it'll close your background apps. iOS on the iPhone is no different, with the added bonus of your primary shell being a nice Windows 3.1-type program manager (just a huge collection of icons).
So like some others, I'm at a loss for a replacement.
Windows phone?
Android 4.x better?
HP's Veer looks great but it probably doesn't have a future, and much like Maemo it will have limited aftermarket support (accessories and apps).