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New user experience and observations..

As a soon to be 1st time Nokia owner (n900) can I clear up a few things with you guys??
If I suggest something that goes against the community or revives an old arguement, then I apologise in advance

I have jumped ship from Windows mobile, because of the lack off apps available and WM has fallen too far behind now - I want my phone to compliment my life, not just for business use.

While I will not buy an iphone - I admit it has raised the bar for every other manufacturer and made people realise what a phone can do, because of its apps

So I ordered a n900 :D

Step 1
look for a support forum - googling n900 forums reveals a few, so Im sorted there..

Step 2
Go to the Nokia site and look for my new phone

http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products...#/main/landing

Bit confusing here - can find the phone but there isn't really that much about it, expected as it is pre-release. The confusion comes over the relationship between Ovi/Maemo which have banners at the bottom of the page. At first I thought that Ovi was Nokia's version of their 'cloud' services for their phones,

http://share.ovi.com/

but there are apps as well such as the maps etc and the store for the n900 has Ovi apps and apps from the community.

http://maemo.nokia.com/maemo-select/applications/

Yet ovi maps seems to be seperate to the rest???

http://www.nokia.co.uk/apps-and-services/ovi-maps/main

Go investigate the 'community' bit

Step 3
Have a look at Maemo
Who are you guys and what is your relationship to Nokia? I know from googling that you are the OS of choice for the n900 - Nokia has put some time in working with you guys. Maeomo 5 - is it a linux distro, or OS purely for the N900?
I can see lots of apps in your download section, but will they all work on my new phone or do I need to wait until they appear in the community section of the ovi store before I can install them?
Im hoping it is the first as suddenly, I do have a decent selection of apps..

http://maemo.org/downloads/OS2008/

Are these for my phone??
Will they install to the correct directories - will I have to configure shortcuts?
Is there a link to these from within the phone, or do I use my pc and then copy accross manually?
Why are these here and not on the nokia pages for applications?
This looks alot more promising than the 2 pages at the ovi store, so why are they hidden away?

Why are you two seperate sites? The success of the n900 will come from its apps and functionality, there isn't enough on the Nokia site about Maemo, it doesn't link to these forums, your app downloads should be linked from the nokia site, people should realise how important Maemo.org is to the n900?? It should be plastered all over the nokia n900 area, and you should be linking to the n900 pages on the nokia site...

I have found the community here to be really helpful, but there is that confusion over where I should be going for support or apps - here or over to the Nokia site, as you seem completely seperate entities at the moment.

These forums for support OR

http://www.nokia.co.uk/get-support-and-software

I really hope I have not offended any long time members/developers, if I have then I am very sorry. I am just trying to give you a completely fresh outlook from the point of view of someone who is completely new to the scene (never had a nokia, and a hardened windows mobile user)

Im a network engineer, so I am IT centric, and can work through most things and find it out, but not everyone is, and lets face it, if the n900 does well, then your site is going to get visited by a larger number of people who may not be that IT focussed?

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