I’ve almost got a new phone.
From Wednesday (at about 3pm) I’ll be running on my new mobile (aka “cell”) phone. The wonderful Nokia N900, which runs on a variant of Linux called Maemo. The idea of a linux-based phone fills me with joy, as many of you know - I am a bit of a geek, and I use Linux at work and at home. I like the idea that if I can’t do a particular thing with my phone, then I can quickly code up something in Ruby/Python(/something else) or port something in order to do that thing!
The N900 has both a touch screen and a pull out qwerty keyboard, which is are both good features for me. This does mean that it’ll be reasonably chunky, but people managed to cope with massive mobile phones back in the 80s and early 90s (then we started to see shrinkage).
It’ll be the first time I move over to Vodafone UK (my mobile providers in the past have been largely O2 (my first phone was on One2One, and I’ve had another phone on Orange)). I’ve heard they are good, and to be providing the N900 they must be good! 
At the start of the post I said “I’ve almost got a new phone”, thats because it was delivered to my parents house - and so I can’t get my hands on it until Wednesday. I’ve also had to get an O2 PAYG SIM Card as a temporary number until Wednesday, because my new phone has stolen my old number already. Oh well.
