Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
My advice would be (if you have cash available) is to first buy what you think is your best alternative, and try to use it for a week or more, and see if you miss the N900 or some of its functionality or not. If you do, sell the alternative, else do it with the N900.
The initial reason i had to buy the N900 was about its potential, and time showed me that i was right. Now is a far better device than it was then. And could keep improving. But your milleage may vary. |
Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
talk.maemo.org has been one sticking point as to why I've kept the phone as long as I have, it has great users and useful folks...and as always the less helpful but amusing "sell it cheap!" -style folks. :)
@gerbick - good points, no sense in hopping on some 2.2 droid when 2.4 might be amazing/fail, as well as Meego. @mattbutsko - the lack of support from Nokia has been slowly wearing me down. I thought...no worries, a fw update here and there, it's ok, we'll be fine with support from the community, but @%^$ you'd think there would be something. Just a working sync/backup like Ovi Suite could have been. Just...frustrating. I don't plan to just toss the N900 cheaply out to the winds, hell it took me a year lurking around on here before I decided I was going to buy the one I have now. It just feels like I've gotten to a point where I "just want it to work" and that just doesn't happen until I've tweaked, edit some files, apt-get upgrade, find working protocols, read the board for an hour or three...then maybe it will work. -_- |
Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
Quick reply...
You are several months late. If you took part in this competition http://extendfirefox.com/mobile-cup/enter.php you might have won an Android phone. Near me was lucky (yes, I envy him; I wasn't that lucky) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/near-me/ It won one challenge (N900) and then another (and can get either N900 or Android, whatever he likes) |
Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
I can't convince you dude, I just know, I love my device and will only upgrade if I (me, myself alone) finds something better. Just sold my iPhone today for $1200TTD
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if you need convincing - sell it
n900 is not for the half hearted |
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Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
Well, I'm not a developer, I know squit about programming in nix and N900.
But if someone offered me a swap-out for an iPhone 4 or android phone I'd flatly refuse. I'm enjoying getting my hands dirty with the N900. As gmuslera says above “Buy your new phone first and put the N900 away”. See how long you can last. |
Re: Someone help convince me to keep my N900 and not sell it.
My take on this issue is that most users here want a pocketable Linux device more than a 'smartphone'. They want something they can tag around in their pocket and hack around/dev with, than to do 'smartphone-y' stuffs like a proper PIM using advanced phone functions and such.
We're talking about completely different paradigms. A full blown *nix without a good amount of modifications to adapt it for a pocketable's requirement can be painful to use, as many of us have found. Nokia/maemo is still not yet 'there' on this iteration. Personally I think a smartphone interface is REQUIRED for pocketable device which you use on the go. Unless you sit down all day in front of the device, which you might better off doing in front of a real machine anyway. |
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