Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

This is incorrect. You will be able to answer and go back to browsing the web and talk on the phone at the same time. I think only Verizon has that problem of not being able to do internet and voice at the same time (not sure though).

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

sorry :(:(

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

ehat about the manufacture place??? are we going to get the N900 which been made in Finland?? or Korea, India china....!!??

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

You've already participated in the "does anybody know where the n900 is manufactured???" thread. You might be better off asking follow-up questions there rather than forking the discussion over to this thread.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

I know...well, my understanding is that you can place shortcuts to contacts, calenders, and website on any of your desktops. How about to scripts? As in, if i write a script to automate...well, whatever, can I place a shortcut to it on a desktop?

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

not yet, a brainstorm item is there for desktop output of scripts, that includes running scripts per widget or something
brainstorm http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...esktop_output/
talk http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34345

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

If I'm not mistaken, only GPRS has this limitation. EDGE and 3G has alleviated that.

So if you have problem getting 3G signal from your carrier that you have to switch to GRPS mode (no coverage, unsupported band, etc), then you might come across that issue.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

EDGE does not support concurrent data and voice, regrettably.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

I can say I've kept most of my thoughts back because it was made abundantly clear that the software is not final in these units - hence, any observations/reviews that I made would potentially be inaccurate upon launch.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Then the above poster's statement is true when the N900 is used on AT&T network.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Just a mention..I'm on AT&T right now myself, and to be perfectly honest, T-mobile can't touch them on coverage, certainly not 3G coverage. But speed...co-worker is on T-mobile, they just turned on 3G here (I'm in Florida), and they just pushed the upgrade. He was getting 5.5Mbs from a bandwith test site. I got 500Kbs from the same site, on AT&T 3G (I currently have a e51).

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Have any of you with the unit tested how voip calls do. I personally am interested in calls over Google talk (i.e. voice chat) to somebody on a laptop. But I'm also interested in how the other available services perform. I've used Fring on my e51, and was not impressed with the performance.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

If you're on EDGE browsing the web and a phone call comes it, the N900 automatically disables the EDGE data connection to accept the call. After the call, the data connection gets enabled again and you can continue surfing.
You cannot surf during a call on EDGE due to technical limitations of GPRS and EDGE. It's not a fault of the N900.
UMTS/HSPA doesn't have this limitation.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

those from the 300 tester, what they think about the:

1)- Battery life
2)- emailing.
3)- how clear the screen when out in sun??

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

For a smart phone, the battery life is good. I wouldn't have to charge it every day, but I'm doing anyway.

I haven't seen the final firmware yet with some improvements in the E-Mail client. On the preproduction firmware the e-mail gets very slow when you have IMAP folders with thousands of mails. Otherwise for sane
folder sizes, performance is OK, and HTML mail is supported, too.

The screen is transflexive, i.e. specially built for being readable in the sun. So yes, it's clear. Colors fade out in direct sun light, but you can still read what's on screen.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Why does one need to exist? Browser is full Firefox engine. maps.google.com should render nicely on the N900.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

cooollllll,,thnx bro

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

I'm curious about this as well. I was considering only getting a data/web plan from Tmobile. I heard there might be one for $10 a month. If this is true, it might be possible using Skype and Google Voice to get all your SMS and voice calling via a cheap data plan on the N900. That would rock to only pay $10 for unlimited data only, and still get voice and SMS.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Try resizing your computer's browser window to 800x480 and you'll see why maps.google.com is almost unusable on the tablets. Too much interface and not enough map.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

so is there going to be a solution 4 this???!!:confused:

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Yes, but layout and controls are not optimized on the default google maps site. Try my version and see what I mean.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Yes. In my "lab", I currently even have a version running with Streetview :-)

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

I have tried XMPP voice calls over EDGE on the N900, but sound is choppy and there is too much latency. This is due to the limitations of EDGE though. I don't know how well it works on 3G networks.

Skype and XMPP voice work really well on wireless though. The sound quality is very high. I've had a few incoming Skype calls that did not connect properly (no sound), but then I just dial back.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

When you connect the N900 to a PC over USB, the device pops up a question whether to connect as a mass storage device or in PC-suite mode.
The PC-suite mode turns the N900 into a CDC Ethernet device. For example, on Ubuntu it shows up as the usb0 network interface.
From there you can do everything you would do over a usual network, like SSH, VNC, etc.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Up please? :)

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Has it been confirmed that there IS no receiver?
People have been using irda ports for some time to send consumer IR signals. If there really is no receiver that would make the N900 very unique. No other Nokia phone has ever had a IR transmitter only (always a receiver/transmitter combination).

I know the manual says the port is not IrDA compatible, but I don't think that necessarily says anything about the hardware.
I'm under the impression that IrDA is a combination of hardware and protocol support. The fact that a device doesn't have any software to support these protocols, makes the device NOT IrDA compatible.
Has anybody seen pictures of the insides of the device? You should be able to tell if it is only a transmitter or receiver/transmitter combination.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Well, as you say, the manual says that "the infrared port is not IrDA compatible". It also says that no software on the device uses it, but that 3party software could. To me this sounds like the _hardware_ isn't IrDA compatible, and to several of us this is understood as there's no receiver.

I guess we'll know for certain shortly.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Sure, the lesson is from the tone of this thread. People who want to see enthusiastic comments about the N900 from people who already have one don't SEARCH enough, haven't read the 'tidbits' that are out there all over the place, and are mostly out of their mind.

Re: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
 

Posts regarding shipping N900 shipping dates have moved to "OPK: N900 deliveries have now started!!" Please keep all such posts in that thread. Thank you.