Today sees the BeRoXM player is also now for the Nokia N900 and Maemo 5 in officially Maemo Extras-Devel repository (http://repository.maemo.org/ ) And in my own Maemo 5 repository repository where the data are as followed:

Catalog Name: Bero

Internet address: http://vserver.rosseaux.net/repositories/maemo/

Distribution: fremantle

Components: main

Or you call on your N900 directly following the Install URL http://vserver.rosseaux.net/repositories/maemo/install/fremantle/main/beroxmplayer.install on.

Moreover BeRoXM player, at least according to my knowledge, the first multimedia application or for Maemo5 for Nokia N900, which is implemented in Object Pascal and compiled with Free Pascal, and all this without the help of officially Maemo SDKs.

Have fun with it, including very nice bugs please report it:)

I have since two days ago near my G1 and Milestone also now a Nokia N900. I have therefore now compared with each other and this will now reflect my experience here.

Pro N900/Maemo:

• Maemo is more open than Android root access on terms again. Say rootsh (root local) and OpenSSH root (via SSH connection) are installed directly on the Programmmananger, and you have root access, either locally in the X-Terminal and / or through an SSH connection.
• There is an unofficial Android 2.0.1 port for N900 (see maemo.org Forum). But that does not matter here, yes.
• The applications on Maemo run as a native ARM binaries. This means that the N900 visually at least for me seems a lot smoother than my Motorola Milestone with Dalvik-VM, which has exactly the same CPU with the same clock and same graphics unit as the N900. Say both have a QMAP3430 SoC with the same clock and PowerVR SGX 530 graphics than unity.
• 3D applications such as games (OpenGL ES ...