Look and Feel
Rating: 2 out of 10
Horrible. The Nokia N900 plays on a strange 'thick brick' motif, with all the wrong dimensions. The screen is too small, the depth it too large. It is fat, it is ugly, and it looks more like a cigarette box than the latest is technology.
The N900 is nothing compared to the iPhone and the Touch HD2 (the Touch is a pretty darn sexy device).
The "Linux" Open-Source Experience
Rating: A subjective and personal rating i guess.. 0 out of 10 for me.
I do not know Linux. If you don't know how to use mount, df, chmod, apt-get, ..., you are going to be in for a world of hurt when you buy your N900. I can't stand it. There is no easy way to do anything. There is no documentation. And when you get things to work, they don't work completely, and they will not do what you expect.
From an end user experience, open source means there are no professional applications for this device. All of the apps are 'works in progress' by part time linux developers who like to spend their free time programming linux applications. I don't understand that at all, but to each their own. Because of this, all the apps have bugs, quirks, they all look and feel different, half of them seem to have been simply ports of very old command line tools, and if there are any problems, someone on the forums is going to tell you to stop wining and go into the source code... ugh.
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