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NITDroid (the version of Google's Android operating system for Nokia tablets) is looking stable and worthy of installation on the N900. I think I may give this a go...

The cheerful folks at Opera released a browser for the Nokia N900 this week. I have installed and I am suitably impressed. The application looks good, and runs quickly. No Abobe Flash just yet, but the default browser can handle this.

 Yeh! - Firmware update and the Ovi Store now open for the Nokia N900. Incredibly impressed that this all happened OTA (over the air). Still hoping for a spellchecker though...

I wrote this a while back, but have not uploaded until now.

The Blackberry has been handed down to another. My new 'phone (and perhaps 'phone is the wrong word) is a Nokia N900. Basically it is a pocket computer that can make telephone calls. It is a flawed device, but I like it a lot.

• The email client on the N900 compares very poorly to both the Blackberry and the iPhone/iPod Touch. Checking email is torturously slow. My understanding is that an upcoming firmware update will fix this. I cannot wait.
• The headphone socket is in a less than ideal place - anything occupying the slot gets in the way of typing. Which is a pain during the morning commute. An angled plug on the earphones could improve things.
• Mac support is limited.

 And then there is the good...

• The N900 has the best browser out there. I can pretty much browse the Web as if this was a desktop machine. Whilst the screen currently does not have multitouch, I can access and use websites that were unavailable to me on the Blackberry and the iPod Touch. I am a happy camper.
• It gets better. The installed OS is Maemo 5, which is largely built on Debian. There is no need to hack or unlock the device to install additional packages or applications. This 'phone is a developer's dream with cool hardware to utilize (including two cameras and an infrared port). Currently the available applications are not as rich as comparable offerings for the iPhone, but I see the situation changing soon.

Whilst I have respect for both Apple and RIM, I am now a fan of Nokia.

I have just installed MaStory on my new Nokia N900. MaStory is a blogging application that runs on Maemo 5. Over the next few weeks I am going to test how well this software works for mobile blogging. This post was composed in MaStory, which allows me to employ basic HTML formatting such as:

1. Ordered lists.

• Unordered lists.

Blockquotes...

And so on.