Umm... I'm not sure whether comparing iPhone and N900 is really wise. What we are talking about here is two completely different devices.

The N900 is a internet tablet series device and most likely is what the future laptops are going to be like. Aside the price, the only downside (that i've noticed so far) is the lack of monitor output (too weak hardware most likely).

By the way, Maemo should be the UI in the upcoming Ubuntu mobile.

I hate the controls on iPhone. I cant play with a touchscreen. I need buttons or a controller.

Is this phone the same?

I don't accept that mobile gaming is going the touchscreen route.

@Slimebeast: You can use the keyboard if you want to, or bluetooth devices that happen to have drivers. After all, Maemo is "fully featured" OS.

"I hate the controls on iPhone. I cant play with a touchscreen. I need buttons or a controller.

Is this phone the same?"

N900 has sliding keypad controls too. Not just touchscreen (Check from SNES video how those works). You can also connect any bluethooth controller to N900.

"The N900 is a internet tablet series device and most like..."

Do you mean phone features or other features? N900 have all same (and even more) phone features what iPhone have. N810 was pure internet tablet without mobile phone features (There was WLAN and Wimax support and you could made IP-calls, but it wasn't mobile phone).

@Daffy: It's an internet tablet with build-in phone features. Nokia already have a similar phone with N900, which is N97. The differences between the two is what i'm talking about.

"It's an internet tablet with build-in phone features. Nokia already have a similar phone with N900, which is N97. The differences between the two is what i'm talking about."

That's my point. Is there any difference between those two phones, except that Maemo is much better OS than old and slow Symbian? All major features are same and those services which are missing from N900 like Ovi game and music shops, etc. will be added to Maemo later on. Only major difference is that with Maemo sw development for Nokia phones is much easier and cheaper.

@Daffy: Umm no. Maemo should work as a normal computer OS, while Symbian is to use the PDA features. Any smartphone and laptop have the same "basic features", with the difference that you can make calls with the smartphone.
The point is, that smartphones can't be used in "more demanding" use, but apparently N900 does pretty much everything that laptops do.

^ It's true that Maremo is "normal" Linux kernel, which is converted for ARM processors, but I still wouldn't say that Maemo is computer OS and Symbian is for PDA's.

Basically only difference between those two is that Maemo is much newer OS and it doesn't have weight of the past slowing it down. Both can do same things, but in Symbian all changes takes a lot more time because of those 40 milloin lines of code, which aren't always done best possible way. Maemo uses veru flexible Linux kernel, which can be used almost everywhere with minor changes, just like Linux based Google Android.

@Daffy: The point is the capability of the software. When you compare N97 and N900, N97 doesn't really hold a candle.

The thing isn't what could and couldn't be done with Symbian if someone wanted, but how Symbian is used in practice.
When you look at smartphones capabilities outside making calls and short/multimedia messages, the focus is on light use. Maemo seems to be more focused on much heavier/computer-like use.