Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

Before the N900 announcement I was all set not to buy it, and get an N810 as well as my N800. Quite fancy playing around with OSM, ecoach etc, and onboard GPS and keyboard would be handy.

Once the 900 was unveiled I suffered acute gadgetlust! Now if I sold my N800, and my Nokia 6220, and leveraged birthday promises (end of sept) I could stretch to the 900.

Problem is that the more I think about it, the more I want to keep using SportsTracker, which is currently on S60 only. I am quite addicted to it.

There seems to be a known and unfixed problem with uploading gpx files from other sources, so uploading from ecoach would appear to be a non-starter at this time. So I am wavering badly again.

I may end up selling the N800 as I have a buyer lined up with a good offer, and still get the N810 in the interim for my birthday.

Unless of course we find out that we can sucessfully use the N900 and sportstracker together, then it'll be a done deal again. Come on Nokia - this will be one of your flagships, enable it for use with one of your flagship services. ST's as good as Ovi easily, and would be another big boost for the new device I'm sure.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

Ok, so it's had some hands on tests, and some early reviews. Has that changed anyones mind from their choices?
Those that said 'if' reviews are possitive are you happy? or waiting for more in depth reviews?

I myself am wondering if there is any reason NOT to pre-order direct from Nokia. Given that I'm a definite yes to buying it. Anyone with experience from previous devices, is it likely anyone would give a better deal than direct? I'm not terribly interested in waiting to go with a contract, I'll buy SIM free as I still have about 6 months on my current contract.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

I voted 'buy (no matter what)' last week but now I'll shift down to 'wait for reviews' or 'wait for hands on opportunity', mainly due to landscape-only orientation. But also (in part) due to:

- vsync tearing (everytime there's horizontal scrolling, visible in all videos).
- choppy youtube playback (need to see more flash performance samples)
- early report that tap-to-zoom in browser isn't as intuitive and smart as iphone's implementation and the other option to zoom quickly is the nipple twirl.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

There's also the zoom rocker on the top of the device. You know, the same one that's been on every other tablet ever released.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

@GA: after using the iphone, g1 and n800, I've found the iphone's control scheme works best for that size\form factor. Just faster and simpler.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

And I disagree. I find pinch zooming to be fairly inconvenient.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

I did buy N770 because it was first tablet under linux, N810 because of GPS and power, N810 because of keyboard. I will not buy N900 if NOKIA does not help me
for the price. I did help them to develop this new market, so just a little bit of return on invstment for me....

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

I do forget also that iphone utilisation is so simple.....

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

@GA: Me too, I don't use pinch\zoom much except when I'm framing or resizing pictures. I was talking about double-tap-to zoom-to-width.

Anyway, this is a purchase poll thread. I was stating the reason why _I_ change my vote. Label me as you want.

Re: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
 

Well, if it doesn't ship with the exact functionality of the iPhone out of the box, Maemo Browser is open and it could be implemented fairly simply (are there any existing implementations in Firefox or WebKit that could be used?).