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REMFwhoopitydo 2009-09-20 15:10
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
*ticked all of the above*

i don't know whether the n900 is nokias best ever smartphone, because i have never cared for smartphones in the least, what i do know is that nokia is the first company to market a mobile computer at me which also happens to do a bit of telephony, and I'm completely sucked in.

tso 2009-09-20 15:31
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by ARJWright (Post 330226)
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I've done this with my N95 for a year, and now the same with my N97 on a regular basis. Since 2007, I've done computing like this, sans laptop.
nokia should really have played that up, maybe even made a E-series complete with a "turn to desktop" dock of sorts...

Matan 2009-09-20 15:45
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 330029)
This has more to do with DPI than anything else.
No it does not. I already hold the N810 too close for comfort for some web pages. I also hold it at the exact closest comfortable range when reading books. There is no way that I will hold the N900 15% closer, so there is no way that it will have the same amount of text on the screen as the N810.

Did you notice that even though there it is possible to print at a resolution equivalent to 3000DPI, no books are printed with a font of size 2 points, no matter how expensive paper is?

zerojay 2009-09-20 15:51
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by Matan (Post 330243)
No it does not. I already hold the N810 too close for comfort for some web pages. I also hold it at the exact closest comfortable range when reading books. There is no way that I will hold the N900 15% closer, so there is no way that it will have the same amount of text on the screen as the N810.
Well, it does have the same amount of text onscreen as the N810 and because the screen is just that much better than the N810s, there's no need to hold it any closer. Everything's perfectly readable at book range.

ysss 2009-09-20 15:53
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@zerojay: well there's the obvious issue of a physically SMALLER screen.
I can definitely feel the difference (less comfortable, reduced accuracy, etc) going to HTC G1 (3.2") from the iPhone (3.5") even when they both have capacitive screen with the same resolution.

zerojay 2009-09-20 16:05
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 330248)
@zerojay: well there's the obvious issue of a physically SMALLER screen.
I can definitely feel the difference (less comfortable, reduced accuracy, etc) going to HTC G1 (3.2") from the iPhone (3.5") even when they both have capacitive screen with the same resolution.
Try it before simply shooting it down. G1 and iphone don't run the same apps so of course you'll feel a difference there anyways.

Take an app you've used a lot on your old tablet and run it on the N900. Try it.

ysss 2009-09-20 16:12
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by zerojay (Post 330252)
Try it before simply shooting it down. G1 and iphone don't run the same apps so of course you'll feel a difference there anyways.

Take an app you've used a lot on your old tablet and run it on the N900. Try it.
FYI, I didn't shoot anything down. I just pointed the obvious (About the physical difference of 4.13" vs 3.5") and illustrated MY experience of comparing 3.5" vs 3.2". In my case: Yes, they the difference of 0.3" was noticeable with similar apps (browsing same websites, reading same ebooks with similar font setting\sizes). I don't personally know how the 0.63" difference between N900 vs the previous NITs which I have (the N800) would pan out.

I didn't make any specific claims about N900.

Texrat 2009-09-20 18:24
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
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Originally Posted by zerojay (Post 330247)
Everything's perfectly readable at book range.
People keep overlooking the fact that "book range" varies from person to person.

A couple of years ago (at 46) my eyes changed dramatically in a short time. I suddenly had difficulty sometimes reading text on my N800 at typical distances. You guys who have not encountered this yet are in for a rude shock.

GeneralAntilles 2009-09-20 18:36
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matan (Post 330243)
No it does not. I already hold the N810 too close for comfort for some web pages. I also hold it at the exact closest comfortable range when reading books. There is no way that I will hold the N900 15% closer, so there is no way that it will have the same amount of text on the screen as the N810.
I'm not talking about web pages, I'm talking about books.

An iPhone is hobbled in readability by its DPI, so saying the N900's 3.5-inches isn't going to be usable for book reading based on your experience with the iPhone isn't necessarily a valid conclusion to come to to.

ysss 2009-09-20 18:48
Re: Is N900 the best smartphone Nokia ever released?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 330315)
I'm not talking about web pages, I'm talking about books.

An iPhone is hobbled in readability by its DPI, so saying the N900's 3.5-inches isn't going to be usable for book reading based on your experience with the iPhone isn't necessarily a valid conclusion to come to to.
I'd agree with that argument if you were talking about displaying non-zoomed-in web page display against the iphone:
A 480x320 screen does not have the sufficient resolution to display a 800x600 website with full clarity.

But when you mention ebook reading, which are generally done with big fonts on the screen (maybe 40-60 lines on the screen, portrait mode)... I don't understand how the higher DPI on the N900 matters, when the iPhone's lower DPI is already sufficient to render the text clearly at the required text display size.

EDIT:

Exhibit (a):

http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev...a-internal.png


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