Conclusion

I’ve yet to spend some serious quality time with the device – but my initial thoughts are that the hardware (excepting the resistive quality of the screen) is better than the software. Although I’m wary about judging too quickly, my gut feeling is that the software isn’t quite at the level you would expect as a power user of the device. Going forward, it may be that the OS is upgraded and bug-fixed, and that usage improves significantly. For now though, my rating would be somewhere between ‘average’ and ‘quite good’.




http://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/17...okia-n900.html

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Cheers

i read this article and couldnt stop wondering how the "reviewer" got a device...
he tried pinch to zoom....and it didnt work...really?
*sighs*

Lol .. i feel your pain bud

The subject is a bit misleading as it was clearly not a review.
Just a quick impression from someone who seem to love the iphone...

That's like trying out any of the gestures from the n900 on the iPhone and blaming the iPhone cause they don't work.

if you really believe this guy

who claims to have a retail version delivered by post

using google pics instead of his own

then you my friend and fellow maemo.org members are quite gullible.

he seems to be nothing more than an apple fanboy hoping to stem the tide / buzz the n900 is generating.

He's clearly misunderstood the device.

"...the four or so homescreens work out well, and to my mind borrow heavily from the iPhone..."

It's very frustrating, reading pages like this.

Just another tard that believes anything Apple does is the best thing ever and nothing can even come close!!!

Little bit quick to shoot the messenger there me old china plate, don't think anyone here said they believed him. Just bringing some fresh information to the community, granted it's a bit on the pish side but i thank you kindly for the advice and completely agree with you, cause i'm gullible you see.

I agree that this review is not very thoughtful or well informed and completely useless to anyone who already knows much about the N900. But it is perhaps a good example of how a lot of consumers, who don't know anything about the N900 or Linux, might approach the device and react to it. For better or worse, the average consumer's expectations (even those of consumers in the market for high end devices) are pretty much completely formed by the iPhone these days. Any strategy to compete in the high end has to account for this.