[jheel_online]

Check out this page:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/n900/specifications
Next check out this other page:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/n97/specifications

Although in has a higher screen resolution, the N900 is capable of displaying 65000 colors while the N97, with a lower resolution, displays 16million.
why would an user want a 65k display with a openGL capable powerful tablet? Why would they put a better (16 million is much better than 65K right?) display on a lower end deviceN97)

[sentimentGX4]

HTC and RIM do it all the time so quit whining.

Besides, will you at least admit the N900 is a decent device? Its no iPhone but its at least close to par with the Android phones at the time of its release.

[sentimentGX4]

To illustrate a point, look! The EVO only has 65k colors as well and its an even newer phone.

www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_4g-3427.php

Only Nokia puts 16m color displays in their $200 smartphones. This is one of the few aspects where Nokia is ahead of everyone else.

[matthew_maude]

whoa, the N900 is vastly superior to the iphone and pretty much any other phone for that matter,
you just need to know how to use it tho otherwise you're best sticking to symbian

and on the screens, the N900 looks so much better than my N97 did but its prone to getting dead pixels

[mccoy1]

yea it's better than the first iphone mobile phone

[jheel_online]

i dont know-i am symbian fanboy. i've used symbian all my life, and that was one of the reasons i chose the 97 over the 900- availability of familiar apps. The 97 failed me though, and i'd possibly move to a different OS with my next purchase. The 900 has a resistive touchscreen right? And will this get meego? Maemo isnt a very popular plarform, not many devices use it. if nokia plans to move to meego, availability of maemo apps might be in jeopardy. And yes,N900 has better hardware, compared to other nokias, but not as good as the iphone4 or the dell streak mate
And have you tried using the iphone and the N900 side by side? I did, and i honestly felt the iPhone 4 is faster than the 900.
If it didnt have the antenna issue, it would have beaten the N900 by a long run. iOS simply feels better than maemo or symbian in their present form.

[matthew_maude]

the key yo the N900 is being willing to play around with it, as said maemo's not very popular at the moment so there aren't as many apps but i've compared it to an N97, all three iphones and an android 1.6 (can't remember which phone tho) and its far better than all of them from what i've seen but as a stock device it lacks the appeal of the others, however it handles multi tasking way better than all the others, i'm running the processer @ 1.15GHz which is about as high as mobile processors go, it handels skype over 3G unlike the iphone, the browsing experience is 2nd to none which i've tried plus i'm running chromium (desktop version of chrome) - the android wasn't bad but it kept directing me to mobile sites
the N900 is more customizable than any of the others via its homescreen set up. anyway to cut it short the N900 either matches or betters what the others do and in my oppinion its faster but if you don't know what you're doing with it then i wouldn't reccomend it

[sentimentGX4]

Largely, what matthew_maude said.

The N900 is an excellent phone because it runs on Linux and this grants it versatility unmatched by either Android or the iOS.

The N900 is easy to overclock unlike Symbian devices and has the ability to run many complex applications.

You can even upgrade to MeeGo on the N900; however, there will be no Nokia support. And this is what's so great about the N900: unlike other OSes, you can do things without the manufacturers permission.

The N900 is probably better suited for a person experienced with and who likes to tinker with software rather than the average consumer who would prefer a steel cage controlled environment such as provided by Apple.

It's not for everybody but the N900 does offer things the iPhone and Android phones don't.