If you have used one, you may understand the feeling. EVen now, I still prefer the N900. Some of the N900 users after switching to other still looked back. You know there're few exceptional device from Nokia? Like 6600, N95, etc. N900 is one of them with very complete hardware (there's Infrared, stereo speaker, lens cover, stylus, qwerty) and a great OS. With the default browser, you can activate the "mouse cursor" so you can do the drag and drop thing, you can do "hover", useful on dynamic websites, you can visit desktop version of Facebook and pretty much do everything like the desktop version, chat, organize pictures in album (drag-and-drop). You can easily select portion of the text too since you can activate the mouse cursor, and use keyboard short-cuts.

Then the multi-tasking is a breeze and convenient to use, just tap the top left you'll go into mutl-tasking window and you can easily switch between apps. So, let's say I'm half way SMS, I can switch to the browser copy some text, switch back to SMS and paste there easily and fast. I tried doing the same on Android, oh the horror.

What I can say is, it's like having a mini pocket-size laptop in your hand, and it can do many basic/usual things that a laptop can do. This in my opinion, brings smartphone experience a closer step to mobile computer experience, what initially POCKET PC meant to achieve.
It doesn't need the person to be advance to use it, if a person can use the computer, it's pretty much the same, there's a desktop like usualy computer where you can put your icons anywhere you like, even overlap one another, no restrictions like where you can put and so on; so the customization of the Desktop is most unique, you can find many creatively design desktop from many users. In LYN N900 thread, there're many types of users, so it's no necesarily one must be advance user. The main issue is the lack of apps/games, official MMS support, 3G calls. The Ovi store is practically useless. Nokia never seem to bother about MMS and 3G calls even up to PR1.3. MMS was supported by 3rd party application and it uses data/internet instead.

There's mplayer (uses processing power) which can decode most of the video file format/types, also have subtitles support. With TV Out, it can also serve as a media player, just dump videos into it and most of the time it just plays without any issue unless it's higher quality, then it may not be able to render properly or at all. There's also Knots2, which allows streaming of video via wifi from the PC's VLC Player, so I can use my PC to stream HD videos to N900 and output through TV.

Anyway, it's a great device, if only there's a better spec version to catch up with today's standard.

Yup, you can say most (if not all) those great apps for N900 is free. I don't visit OVI Store. In N900, by default there's App Manager, which you can add other repository (something like Cydia on jailbroken iOS), here you can find tons of apps, there're some ported from Desktop version (there's Chromium aka Google Chrome), there're also WarCraft2 & StarCraft (whcih runs on different engine), there's DOSBox, so much more. There's also some Java package you can install, then you can run NetBeans IDE! That's plain crazy though.
With Ir, there's Ir Remote app (as usual) and also Remote Trigger for DSLR.

Basically, the main attraction for most people is simple, they want apps and games, those that are popular and nice. Nokia didn't push enough effort on this for Maemo and MeeGo, even Samsung did better for their Bada OS?
As for Microsoft, I believe they've been pushing hard on this since sometime a go.

N9 video playback is not as good as N8; I tested some 720p video, N9 cannot play it properly but N8 has no problem at all.
As for DLNA, I suppose Symbian is more widely use and they have larger teams and more attention, so there should be less issue and if any, it could be rectified and sorted much faster.

Thanks.

1. How do I transfer N8's Maps Favorites to N9 Maps?. Both have different Nokia Account (I want to keep it separate).

2. When you export your Contacts to a File in N9, where is this file kept and what's it called? I did that but couldn't find it.

1) I haven't found a way to import favourites on N9.

2) They are all in a folder called Contacts in your MyDocs folder.

There are no file manager in N9. So what do you people use?

Angry Birds Space running on N9 (NITDroid)

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Added on March 23, 2012, 8:27 amWhere's My Water running on N9 (NITDroid)

Wow!!! Completely floored by your explanation of N900. Truly an amazing device indeed. If there's anything that is closest be being called a Pocket PC, it's definitely N900. Really impressed with the browser having a mouse cursor & ability to hover. Don't know how often I tried in vain to select one of those darn menu dropdowns where the option I wanted was at the bottom but I can never get there to select it.  Wah really cool way of using N900 as media centre. Back then it's done with TV Out. Now everything is done wirelessly.

Aiyak, no MMS & 3G calls on N900? Never fixed also by Nokia?  Of course nowadays no one cares bout 3G calls anymore. Hehe.

Anyway, I've found kmplayer & mplayer for N9, testing it for now. Seems like a better option to play vids on N9 for now. Also found VLC player for N9 but like a bit old & buggy to use.

Haha! The way N900 works really like Linux/Ubuntu to me. Cool! Got so many ported apps! Walau! Netbeans IDE?? Hahahaha!!!! Great for showing off to ppl, hey look, I can do programming on my phone!! 

Yeap, that's the current trend. People want a phone that can install apps & games everyone is playing. Sadly Maemo was never anything more but a side project in Nokia. That was about to change with Maemo6/MeeGo but the delays killed it. Also, to cater for more normal use, they had to strip things out. So the resulting N9 pales in comparison to the mighty N900. Yes Samsung definitely did more for promoting Bada OS. Microsoft was trying hard to fix all the issues in the originally released WP7 & didn't spend much time marketing it to be honest. But at least with WP7.5, they are pushing hard.

N9 video playback is very limited compared to N8, resolution & bitrate wise. The GPU in N8 is really amazing to be honest. The N9 it turns out uses practically the same GPU as N900 but missing some driver decoders which Nokia seems to have no interest to fix now.

I would like to see Draw Something running on NITDroid N9

Yup, back during the time of N900, many people were asking about the 3G and MMS, because of this, they sold or didn't get it. Then it's all about apps and games. Their friends are enjoying game on iPhone/Androids, so how can they stand, hee. Moreover, if there's multiplay, they'll be left out and also left out of the circle or conversation, no idea what they're talking about.
But actually for iOS, there's an option, which is iPod Touch which you can get for 1/3 of iPhone price, but you cannot have data, and have to rely on wifi.
I think I download it before but seems not working, I think that was the early versions or something.
Good for show only, cannot do, lol, way too laggy. NetBeans IDE consume high resource even on Desktop PC, lol. But with the Java library (forget what's it's called), you can run applets, and stuffs on the phone. It's like having full java on the phone, not the ME edition.
My colleague got the Samsung Wave on Bada, during that time, they done more promotion and giving free games and bringing apps and games to the platform. But Nokia didn't, we only have Angry Birds on N900, and some other puzzle or blocks type of game, but the device was not so much meant for gaming, more for work, the 9 series.

Yup, MS pushing and attracting developers is obvious that it's highlighted in GSMArena and several sites. It'll take some time, but it'll definitely catch up; but their marketplace needs better organization or some sort, most feedback I have is the marketplace is not so convenient to browse and apps/games are not sorted well, you often see useless 1 star app on top, weird. Even myself, when I was browsing to see what free app/games it has, after browsing very far below, only I found more interesting and the common app/games.

The GPU is great, but did you notice banding issues on Nokia devices? I first notice the severity on N8, but seems very few notice this, but it's so obvious, once I show it, they can see it clearly. You can see this on N9 as well, but not as bad as N8. N900 has no or very little banding issue, so I never really notice it, but on N8, it's very obvious.

Here's an explanation and sample of banding.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php

Here's the sample video I took, not so obvious when see from video, but it's there. E7 with CBD also same.

Nice and addicting games, but not everyone draw nicely.

If got bigger scree it's better, on small screen and using fingers, it's horrible.
Samsung Galaxy Note is nice for this, Tablets even better.

Well, ppl seem to draw ok ah on iPhone.  But it's really hilarious lah see some of the results.

ade sesiapa boleh update firefox? asyik failed je...huhu.

That's the best part of the game actually hahaha

Yap so true, everyone playing some game, multiplayer somemore but we can't join in coz we're on Nokia. Actually that's the reason I got the iPod Touch, to be able to play games with those poeple on iOS. But I don't think I wanna carry another extra gadget with me nowadays.

Very true, I also find the sorting in WP marketplace very messy. I usually have to resort to searching for an app I'm looking for. Much faster than scrolling through endless list of dun know what rubbish apps. But maybe this is something that only happens in M'sia Marketplace since it's still new?

The colour banding issues is caused by the screen. It's a 16-bit AMOLED screen. You won't see this banding on say Samsung Galaxy S2 because they use a 32-bit AMOLED screen. Both N8 & N9 uses 16-bit AMOLED but it's not as bad on N9 because resolution & pixel count on N9 is higher so that masks the banding a bit. CBD actually is just a polariser to stop light reflections from the screen itself, doesn't do much for fixing colour banding.

Well, ppl seem to draw ok ah on iPhone.  But it's really hilarious lah see some of the results.

Yap!!! So agree on that. My friend sent a blank screen to another friend make him so scratch head. The answer? White. 

Same, I got the iPod Touch, but I hardly use it after a while. The gaming is quite fun, but it's have not much control so not all types of game is suitable; Still prefer to play on PSP.
One app which I particularly like is the "Dynolicious" app 

Let's hope so. There's still many things to improve on Windows Phone. Talk about scrolling, the contacts could use a better scrolling feature like in N9, you can scroll to specific alphabet easily, or like Android, you can easily filter by scrolling. The seems to missed this on Windows Phone, but they really did amazing job on SNS, you don't have to install Facebook application at all, you can comment directly, like, tag, etc. Very cool! When you browse a picture or post, it will be cached into the phone. You can view them even when offline, since it's cached into the phone, zooming is smooth and quality is still there (unlike Android), and you can even save it even offline as it's already cached. This is the Amazing Everyday experience, lol. I'm surprise how detail and well they did this, but other features seems they just do the basics.

Finally! After so long, a very good explanation. The bit you mean color?
I've been wondering is it because of the color but then my N900 (65K) doesn't seem to be obvious, that what makes me wonder, but maybe it's because of the resolution and pixel count, and also screen size.

I mean can draw, but not easy, small screen and finger also cover so big already.
I've seen those that draw very detail and nice. I tried drawing with the Galaxy Note, it was soooo much better, first the screen is big, you can draw more details and with the stylus, even better. Just that I find it's not always accurate to the touch, sometimes you touch on this spot, it appears on another spot. Have to hold it properly. Plus, you can see gap between the glass and the display, unlike N9 and Lumia 800

I notice got one bug, anyone got the word "USB"?
I draw USB, when I watch back the person guess, there is no "U" word in the list? LoL, how to answer.

http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-4007.php

I thought that just recently Nokia retrenched a lot of people after decision to dump Symbian.Not again?

Looka like Nokia is really having a bad time now.

Yap, bit refers to colour, 16-bit is 65K while 24-bit/32-bit is 16 Million. Anyway, the reason why you don't see the banding on N900 is because it's TFT type. TFT doesn't show obvious colour banding if compared to AMOLED.