well respected reviewer "eldar" throwing caution to N900.

I wonder if Eldar is the only "non Fanboy" with his hands on the N900? I trust his reviews completely and has no reason to tarnish his reputation.

He's basically saying that the N900 at Nokia world was a special firmware build. I "think" he's updated with a newer firmware and still seeing stability issues. Anyone familiar with software engineering will know bugs/crashes are normal during development, but to have ANY "easy to reproduce issues" weeks from release is a sign of worry and poor code quality/integration.

With such an "open" O/S you cannot code/test all integration/use case possibilities so easily.

BTW, I tested the device at the Nokia store for 10 mins 2 weeks ago and it seemed pretty stable to me. But Eldar has the thing 24x7.

Heres original link
http://eldarmurtazin.livejournal.com/497512.html

google translated:
http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

Here we go again...

His claims of "PR firmware" are... well...

I think he sees how much excitement is around the N900 so being really negative about it now (after being so positive about it in his review) means getting more hits and you're helping to reenforce that.

There is already a thread about this.

Seriously, this guy is so respected that I seriously doubt it. His reputation is worth more than a "few bucks" from web hits.

C'mon if he really cared about webhits his posts and website would mainly be in English not Russian!

He is respected by leak hungry forum goers, true.

this time i will reply with a poem (took me 5 minutes):

Eldar this, Eldar that.
If we listened to him every time,
we would be just sitting home on our butts,
becoming lazy to stand, becoming fat.
On the other hand, if what he says was fact,
me and everyone else would get pretty mad.
That being said, i have nothing to add.
Eldar, please stop becoming our dad,
it's really boring and sad.
Fact.

Well given that I cannot make head nor tails of the translation I cant comment on the review itself. That being said I KNOW that others have prototypes 24x7 and this is the first I am hearing of BAD stability issues.

I'm surprised by all the Eldar hate. He's simply saying what every software developer is aware of:

Building a complex system is difficult, there will be bugs and issues. Its how those bugs are managed and expectations that lead to an actually release.

Turning features off/special builds are common in software development for demos.

BUT in my experience, for large projects, random crashes or easy to reproduce crashes WEEKS before release never end well. Ask any C/C++ developer with more than 10 years experience and you will get the same answer.

Either Eldar is lying about the stability, has faulty hardware or simply pushes his N900 harder than others.

I hope he has faulty hardware

Reputation??? Didn't he leak details of a prototype device?

And don't confuse the responses thus far with hate, bugelrex. Let's please avoid exaggeration.