I decided to get a HTC Desire yesterday and move on from the N900. A combination of things made me move but the main thing was the broken USB port issue. It is something that is in the back of my mind every day. I purchased my N900 from America and live down in Aus so paying at least $100 in postage charges isn't practical if it breaks.

First impressions of the Desire is how fast and easy to use it is. Menu transitions are so fast! Apps open in a snap and the screen looks amazing, so clear and crisp. I have everything running on it the same way I used my N900 pretty much. It has 7 different home screens which I have news, Facebook, weather, mail etc widgets and shortcuts.

Loving being back in portrait mode, never realised how much I missed it. Don't have an QWERTY keyboard now but the Desire has a few different on screen keyboards to use and I am using a normal phone keypad layout with T9 input and it's just as fast to use as the hardware QWERTY.

Browsing the net is great. The first time it loads a page it's a bit slow while it's caching I assume but loading it up next time is so quick! Browsing without a stylus was a bit of a worrie for me at first but the Desire has that sense button that you can use to scroll through the links on the page and then press the sense button to select them without having to touch the screen at all. So there's no need for a stylus.

Jump in the app store and there are tones! The amount of free games available alone is amazing. I gave up scrolling though the list after a few minutes.

Doesn't have an FM transmitter which is something I use a fair bit at work but I have a battery operated one coming in the post so hopefully it makes up for it.

Anyhow that's my 2 cents for my first 24 hrs with the phone. This isn't a N900 bashing post in anyway so I hope it's not taken this way. I am going to miss the N900 and the great community here that supports it.

Good luck with your N900's ladies and gents