N900 wins award in Sweden

[Rauha]

Readers of Mobil.se have chosen N900 as The Smartphone 2009.

http://www.mobil.se/artikel/just_nu_arets_guldmobiler_delas_ut_mob_adm_0911052 02659-234.html

Läsarnas val:

Årets kameramobil
Sony Ericsson Satio

Årets musikmobil
Sony Ericsson W995

Årets multimediamobil
Samsung Omnia HD

Årets smarta mobil
Nokia N900

Årets internetmobil
HTC Hero

Årets designmobil
LG Chrystal

Årets GPS
Tomtom Go 930T

Årets mini-pc
Sony Vaio P

[Fargus]

Readers of Mobil.se have chosen N900 as The Smartphone 2009.

http://www.mobil.se/artikel/just_nu_arets_guldmobiler_delas_ut_mob_adm_0911052 02659-234.html

Läsarnas val:

Årets kameramobil
Sony Ericsson Satio

Årets musikmobil
Sony Ericsson W995

Årets multimediamobil
Samsung Omnia HD

Årets smarta mobil
Nokia N900

Årets internetmobil
HTC Hero

Årets designmobil
LG Chrystal

Årets GPS
Tomtom Go 930T

Årets mini-pc
Sony Vaio P


How the hell did the HTC Hero make Internet Mobile when the N900 was on the list?! Oh well, sure there is some logic there, just not sure it's based on sound usage.

[Rauha]

How the hell did the HTC Hero make Internet Mobile when the N900 was on the list?! Oh well, sure there is some logic there, just not sure it's based on sound usage.
Actually I think that choosing N900 as best smartphone wasn't based on sound usage, since it's not even released yet.

Still, nice to see N900 getting love from instead of random Sony Ericsson phone.

[Texrat]

Rauha my friend this should have been in General so you could have received Thanks. ;)

[Tintin]

Actually I think that choosing N900 as best smartphone wasn't based on sound usage, since it's not even released yet.

Still, nice to see N900 getting love from instead of random Sony Ericsson phone.

a) Swedish-Finnish rivalry at it's best :)

b) Can we now all agree on calling the N900 a smartphone and not some marketing-name (mobil-computer..but with a design focusing on phone-size more than tablet size' )?

[Rauha]

Rauha my friend this should have been in General so you could have received Thanks. ;)
No problem. I know less than zero about programming and will never enough karma for any discount. My professional geekiness is aimed at something totally different (molecular biology).

Glad you liked my post anyway. No hitting the "Thanks" button required.

[rm42]

Can we now all agree on calling the N900 a smartphone and not some marketing-name (mobil-computer..but with a design focusing on phone-size more than tablet size' )?


Sorry, but I refuse to call the N900 a smart phone. It is definitely the start of a new category in portable computing. I think mobil-computer is a more fitting description.

[Texrat]

How about "computing communicator".

:D

[eiffel]

How about "computing communicator".
How about a "Nokia Internet Tablet"?

[Texrat]

How about a "Nokia Internet Tablet"?

Ooo... has a nice... ring.

[mannakiosk]

Maybe we could call it a "smarter phone"...

[matthewcc]

How does something that is not released or available for public consumption winning an award!?

I'm surprised the Apple Tablet did not win a prize as well...

[Rauha]

How does something that is not released or available for public consumption winning an award!

Läsarnas val translates roughly into Readers vote, so it was chosen because that was what readers of Mobil magazine voted for.

I'm surprised the Apple Tablet did not win a prize as well...
There was not any category for tablets. :rolleyes:

[twaelti]

b) Can we now all agree on calling the N900 a smartphone and not some marketing-name (mobil-computer..but with a design focusing on phone-size more than tablet size' )?
No we can't. It is MUCH more. It's a mobile computer with superbly integrated multiprotocol communication functionality.

Now the terminology of course is still a mess:

("MOCO-SIMCOF"? :D)
Or is it a Comphone perhaps? (COMpact COMputer COMmunication phone). Or 3-com :-)
Well, for me it's probably the first real Nokia Communicator ...
I suggest calling it a Comcom

[benny1967]

b) Can we now all agree on calling the N900 a smartphone and not some marketing-name (mobil-computer..but with a design focusing on phone-size more than tablet size' )?

you only have to compare its feature set to that of an average phone (let alone a so-called "smartphone" - i still don't believe this category even exists) and you'll see maemo isn't there yet.
even if one day the operating system reaches feature parity with smartphones, the device will still be hampered by the physical aspects of its UI (lack of physical buttons to perform certain operations).

the N900 is a smartphone as much as it is a kitchen radio or a video camera or a computer for word processing.