mobile review .... REVIEW of the n900!

[zkyevolved]

Hey everyone. I just found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAU_tKqWHcA

Click and watch :) it seems to have been posted today! It shows Maps :) so that's good!

Just thought I'd share my findings :)

[Soulfarmer]

Yeah it looks like it was posted on youtube today, and it seems like it is the video which was included in Maemo5/N900 russian language review (http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-maemo5.shtml) on Mobile Review few days back.

Thanks for bringing it up in here too though, not everybody visit Mobile Review.

[lma]

Review? More like a video of someone tapping mostly randomly on the screen for 10 minutes.

[zkyevolved]

Hey it gives a good idea of how fluid and how everything works :) I liked it. Hehe.

[sevla]

Gotta love 4:28 where he makes a selection (that gets highlighted) while jabbing the screen 2 times and it did even register the selection he was trying to make.

Can't wait till Nokia dumb resistive touch screens for GOOD!

[allnameswereout]

Can't wait till Nokia dumb resistive touch screens for GOOD!:confused:

[Rauha]

Gotta love 4:28 where he makes a selection (that gets highlighted) while jabbing the screen 2 times and it did even register the selection he was trying to make.



Same thing happened to me when I tried the prototype. It's software not hardware problem. Ovi maps sucks on Maemo. Look at the video again at 4:28. Phone registers it after first touch and the selection activates before second touch. The slow response is due Ovi maps software not the screen.

What you are actually seeing is how slow, crappy and unresponsive the Ovi maps on Maemo is at the moment.

[franklinn]

Gotta love 4:28 where he makes a selection (that gets highlighted) while jabbing the screen 2 times and it did even register the selection he was trying to make.

Can't wait till Nokia dumb resistive touch screens for GOOD!

I think its quite responsive. Resistive screen has its benefits not least handwriting recognition. Nokia will be unwise.to dump it. IMHO capacitive is way too overrated, lacks pinpoint accuracy and needs skin contact.

The Video playback is woah ! Reviewer should have shown us camera functionality though. Cant wait to get my hands on one.Finally a smartphone for grown ups; thanks to Nokia and the Maemo community.

:D

[range]

:confused:

I think he meant "dump" instead of "dumb", because capacitive is so much^W^W^W^W^W

[YoDude]

Same thing happened to me when I tried the prototype. It's software not hardware problem. Ovi maps sucks on Maemo. Look at the video again at 4:28. Phone registers it after first touch and the selection activates before second touch. The slow response is due Ovi maps software not the screen.

What you are actually seeing is how slow, crappy and unresponsive the Ovi maps on Maemo is at the moment.

Good call... but I wouldn't just single out Maemo... For me Ovi Maps runs crappy and unresposive at times on a desktop browser and a fat pipe. ymmv

[franklinn]

Good call... but I wouldn't just single out Maemo... For me Ovi Maps runs crappy and unresposive at times on a desktop browser and a fat pipe. ymmv


Not very encouraing but hopefully this will be fixed in future updates.

[freppas]

Hey guys, please stop hating on the resistive screens, they do have their uses. I live in China and I can tell you right now that resistive screens are absolute gold when it comes to looking up characters etc.. Doing it on an iPhone just makes you feel silly and clumbsy. I know the N900 doesn't support Chinese yet (last I checked anyways) but when it does I assure you the chinese cusomers will appreciate the resistive screen.

Here's actually where Nokia shows that it's an international company, making phones for the whole world, while apple mainly makes them with US customers in mind.

[zkyevolved]

Hey guys, please stop hating on the resistive screens, they do have their uses. I live in China and I can tell you right now that resistive screens are absolute gold when it comes to looking up characters etc.. Doing it on an iPhone just makes you feel silly and clumbsy. I know the N900 doesn't support Chinese yet (last I checked anyways) but when it does I assure you the chinese cusomers will appreciate the resistive screen.

Here's actually where Nokia shows that it's an international company, making phones for the whole world, while apple mainly makes them with US customers in mind.

I don't think that's 100% true. I Dunno. I was walking downtown Madrid last night, and I saw 2 models recur. Blackberry 8300 series, and the iphone in white (among the super buff men) and black among the women. LOL.

[freppas]

I don't think that's 100% true. I Dunno. I was walking downtown Madrid last night, and I saw 2 models recur. Blackberry 8300 series, and the iphone in white (among the super buff men) and black among the women. LOL.

Yea I should probably have written western customers instead of US customers.

It's fairly big here in China as well, or the pirated one is. But that is mostly based on the fact that it's really the only really cool and flashy phone that's available, people find the screen keyboard and inability to write characters manually annoying. It's just obvious that it was made for someone else really