I thought it was just another ranting post. It's good that you're seriously considering getting a new N900.

My N900 is working just fine, but from what I've read from this forum so far (an probably the replies that follow), people has pretty bad experience with the defective hardware.

My guess is that some of the order batches are having bad quality, and may be a newer one would be much better.

I'm not sure if it'd help, the following warranty checker would check whether given an IMEI the Nokia phone is still under warranty, and it's a good indicator of a new product, if you'd like to purchase a new one via Internet, probably it'd help: http://www.nokia.com.hk/support-en/r...y-verification