Well even though your post is old, I will answer it for anyone who might be thinking about the phone now...

in short, no don't get the phone. The n900 was a big purchase for me - something I don't do but maybe once a year in a half. Over all the n900 was a very clunky phone compareds to any other modern smart phone. The device operated poorly as a phone. My old n95 could run circles around the n900 as far as it operating as a phone and a basic PIM organizer. The battery life on the n900 is so horrible that I can't even last one day with the device - making it the most inpracticle phone I have ever owned. As far comparing the n900 to other smartphones, the n900 is no where as polished and ready for the mass market and was released too early befor the OS was ready. IF that was the only thing wrong with it I could live with it as the N900 truely more of a pocket limux computer than a phone and me being a geek I could deal with it. But the final blow for me was when Nokia decided to dump the Maemo operating system in favor of MeeGo and than announced that there would not be an offcial release of the MeeGo OS for the N900 when the OS is complete - thus basically screwimg the future and all users who bought the N900. Of course there will be non-official releases from the user community, but nothing official from Nokia. So as much as I love my n900 i know it's days are limmited by developers and the user community - not to say that it is pretty much already dead in Nokia's eyes.

Don't get me wrong... I love the N900.. But there was room for improvement.. such as with MMS and Nokia's own PC Suite and OVI store issues. Still the N900 is a great device.. I just would of loved to see Nokia continue to develop the platform.