Getting a smartphone, looking for input (complete newbie)

[Tellos Athenaios]

in the same vein, i love my Nokia N9 which is a truly magnificent device but on really loved by linux fetishists, and hardly the best place to get apps (if you think you'll use them..... many don't).

I know I don't, though partly because the stuff I really want to do need a lot of spare time & no need for a working phone... Looking forward to Mer/Plasma Active on the N9, plus Calligra & Marble touch. Also, Maliit looks to be delivering N9-as-a-remote goodness and I've heard things about preliminary Opera builds, too ...

One of the things to like about the N9 is the ease with which one enables developer mode and do things like give it a proper hostname, setup SSH (keys) and so on.