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If you want to get really depressed, read Gizmodo's (or Engadget's) review of their Meego(?) phone that was never sold because of the MS acquisition.

The review basically said that someone had finally created the perfect competitor to the iPhone. And it was never released. :(

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I got the N9 here in New Zealand a couple of months ago. It is absolutely brilliant.

By absolutely brilliant, I mean $200 cheaper than the Lumia 800 (which I also got for my wife); A mile better than the crappy samsung gio I previously had; beautiful hardware design; very hand front facing camera and auto adjusts screen brightness to ambient light; very good account management/integration.

The thing that lets it down is app availability.

Yep, it's pretty cool, my co-founder swears by it. It's on the market here in Sweden at least. Same shape as the other phones, but running apt instead. :-)

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