Discussion for the n900 live review
 

Anyone been following the live review of the n900 done over at:

http://www.umpcportal.com/live/

Pretty objective, they are testing the device live on video, no fanboy or marketing BS

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

I saw the start, it was great! Had to nip out so missed a lot of it... WIll be keeping an eye out for the recordings that should get posted. Definitely worth a watch.

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

Interesting contrarian comments in the summary that Maemo is not quite so open despite being Linux based because it is not as easy to customize for normal users as other OS and is only available on one device. Counterintuitive but correct according to their definition of openness.

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

Missed most of it, but what I did catch was pretty good! :)

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The only thing that had me kind of worried was the fact he had problems with the various media file types.

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Haha.. they are bashing Achos 5.... sweet.

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

Man, jkk leaves me very unimpressed.

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

comments on Windows mobile being easy is a load of croc.

I had one forced on me by the company for a couple of years. The reason its easy is cause it doesn't do anything useful, even if its not sucking your battery dry. And it certainly does not have intuitive menus ....ever tried to do a blutooth paring ,or switch from 3g to wifi now that is hard work, actually even answering a call was hard work.


Thank goodness for mail for exchange, now I do the corporate thing on my E71 (soon to be N900)

Mike C

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

looking good. But screen appears fingerprint friendly

Re: Discussion for the n900 live review
 

Be sure you check if it works well with your Exchange server. The protocols differ, and I read one report from a user who couldn't get it to work with Exchange 2003. Then again, perhaps take with grain of salt, since he claimed N900 supports ActiveSync 2.5 and N96 ActiveSync 12. ActiveSync 2.5 would be from 90s, and ActiveSync 12 does not exist (current version 4.5). WTF?!