Some more thoughts on the N900
I haven't managed to install a development enviroment yet -- that's part laziness, part caution: I'm not going to install scratchbox on my laptop directly, I'll use a vm for that. And after installing scratchbox in Karmic, Karmic won't start anymore. Need to investigate more -- that's the laziness.
Two observations: the lock switch on the side is soooo nice -- much better than pressing two keys in exactly the right succession on my old E71. And the N900 gets slow when six to eight apps are running, and -- dash it! -- I want them running because they are all so convenient. And a third observation: swiping from outside the screen onto the xterm will select the url to open or copy if there's one on the line(s) you swipe over.
And here's a picture to show the camera in near-perfect conditions: a
bright October day in Amsterdam, around 14:00:
(Click to get the full untouched image; the small image has been scaled in two steps with unsharp mask in between, same as I do with my Fuji camera.)