Thread: Next-gen Nokia devices with Multitouch and Maemo 6 soon coming?
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-10-14 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by Ytr View Post
But if Nokia says: this is the fourth step of a five step plan, why wouldnt you wait 'till the last, final and finished step? I think that is logically. Nokia is admitting that the Nokia N900 is not their really flagship, but the one-before-last-step. Multitouch and portrait mode look really attractive. Also, the great mass of people consider these as the option the N900 lacks most. So if the successor of the N900 comes out, it will be way more popular and there will be made more commercial apps for it, that attracts more customer, that attracts more developers and so on. So i think the next device will be much better. One year isn't that long.
If you prefer your current device to the N900, then there is no reason to change. If you prefer the N900 but you don't want to invest the money now and you are willing to wait a year, then wait.

But remember the N910 or N1000 that comes out in a year might be better for the mass market but it might not be what you want. Maybe Nokia will decide that keyboards are not needed but you really like them. Nobody (probably including the Nokia designers) knows what the next device will have. It may turn out that the N900 suits you better than the next device. In that case you will have waited a year for nothing.

Plus, in a year Nokia will be working on the next next device and OS. The market keeps moving and Nokia will need to keep up. You will have this same decision regardless of what computer product you are considering and regardless of when you are considering it. There is always something better in the pipeline.

Bottom line, if you like the N900 as it exists today and you can afford it, get it. If you don't, don't.
 

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