My N900 finally arrived on monday after UPS failed to find an 8 story office block in central London two days running. I think it would have gotten here quicker if Nokia had tied it to a blind monkey and thrown bananas in my general direction. Anyway it got here eventually.
So far loving it. There are some software glitches but i’d expect them to be ironed out in the next firmware or two.
Currently writing this is on the phone with MaStory, a wordpress app for Maemo. Seems to work pretty well and can upload media too.
Another thing i’m enjoying is watching normal standard def divx videos. No need to reencode anything, just copy across and watch. The media player also plays ogg music files which is good as i ripped most of my cd collection to ogg.
Will update with more details as i explore the available software further.
Just got this from Nokia:
Welcome to the N900 meet-up !
The London meet-up is held in the St. Martins Lane Hotel (www.stmartinslane.com) Tuesday the 17th of November.
The doors open at 7.30pm and the ‘official’ part starts at 8pm. For the following couple of hours you will be able to meet likeminded people, as well as Maemo folks from Nokia and the community.
We will provide some nibble food and N900 demos, so you can get a feel for the device in case you have not had the chance yet or just have fun with it. The event then ends at 10pm after which we can continue the chats elsewhere. We will also have a surprise lottery at the end of the event.
As the space is limited, we have a name list at the door so we ask you to bring a piece of identification with you.
We are very excited about the N900, and we hope you are as well!
Should be interesting.
This weekend I had a play with the Maemo SDK and tried out a number of the apps available. I’m trying to setup the dev environment so I can try out some of my rusty python skills, but part of it wasn’t agreeing with Windows 7 too much. I may have a solution that I’ll try later.
Popped into Nokia Flagship Store again today, but no Maemo Lounge open yet. As it was announced the N900 was shipping out today hopefully that’ll be up and running soon.
Seems my plan to get easy entry to the London N900 meetup failed.
Currently you can’t register for the London event as they’ve not announced the date. However last week I found with a little javascript trickery you could get around it and signed up myself and a friend. I got confirmation emails and the number of seats available did go down by 2. It seemed I wasn’t alone and by earlier today the number of available seats was down to 73 (out of 80).
I just checked now and noticed the available seats were back up to the original 80. I guess this means my registration is not valid. Being a bit cheeky I did try the same method I used before to register, but it seems they’ve gotten wise to the hole and plugged it. 
I’m thinking this could mean that they are going to announce the date very soon and open up registrations properly. I will be watching the page very closely and hope to get into the event the old fashion way.
