Your next phone?
 

Hi! I've a little question to all N900 users:

Will be "Nokia/Maemo" your NEXT phone?

My N900 IMEI (serial number part): ********007519*
My answer: NO

All my phones:
Nokia 1610, Nokia 3210, Nokia 6600, Nokia N80, Nokia N95, Nokia 5800XM, Nokia N900

Think about it, Nokia.

Re: Your next phone
 

Another Nokia could definitely be my next one a few years down the road. But only if they do the N900 justice and support it properly, as they did with my previous "mobile computer", the N95-1, which is still getting updates.

Ovi Maps needs to become useful with Navigation, Bluetooth HID support I would like back. Main camera quality needs to be tweaked somehow, and I'd like the front camera to get supported by native applications such as the im communications apps.

For these items I am not willing to pay extra. They should just work.

Other things that would make me even happier:
- Proper native printing from Maemo
- Editing of PDF's
- Editing of Pictures
- Proper editing of MS Office formats
- A good travel software that can store and remember my travel itineraries, hotel bookings and etc. and automatically fetch contact phone numbers for my hotels etc.

For these items I'm fully willing to pay.

With everything above, I'd be in heaven and wouldn't lug my laptop around with me on all client visits.

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yes definately!
Think about it, Nokia.

Re: Your next phone
 

My next phone might be a Nokia.
I'll think about it myself.

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How is exactly Nokia going to think about it if you don't provide anything to think about?

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i think this could be an interesting poll
for me definately n1000 or whatever

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There are plenty of suggestions and comments here @ tmo and many other furums nokia can consider implementing into there devices but guess what? Yup, they dont give a rat what you and I think. The only time they care of what we think is when the produced devices become buggy and people start complaining.

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Pretty sure my next one will be Nokia, hopefully Maemo, if Nokia doesn't totally botch this up, which I doubt.

What other choices are there anyway?

iPhone is way too closed and the hardware is far from bleeding edge. Apple might surprise this summer, but I think it is more likely they want to continue to rake in profits.

Android I could consider, but it feels kind of "fake open" and somehow my mind repels the thought of "Java == mobile efficiency".

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Definately Maemo!

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pdf editing? that sounds kinda perverse... With printing support you'd almost automatically make it trivial to save to pdf, though.

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I'm thinking to get a Nexus One when it will be available in Europe... I'm a geek enough to carry 2 devices with me :-)
For me N900 is not a smartphone but a computer/tabled that has it's drawbacks but having a full functional linux distro in my pocket is great.

Re: Your next phone?
 

This is definAtely one of the stupider threads I've read...

The scatological tag was funny though...

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I will buy whatever Maemo device comes next. I'm more than happy with my N900. It's the best phone I've ever owned by far!

Re: Your next phone?
 

i just bought THIS one!? (N900)

give it time!

Re: Your next phone?
 

my next phone will support:
1) Basic search function for contact, notes, tasks and calendar.
2) it will blue tooth appointments and notes.
3) it will support task descriptions!

I may have to toss my n900 - while I love the new stuff I can't go backwards and dump 1 and 3 above.

think about that Nokia!

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no, this is my last phone/tablet. Next time...I will buy a computer.

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Yes, sometimes I´m a bit naughty..... But no, pdf editing is sometimes for adding text boxes with comments while proofreading, or when getting client contracts that need to be signed and where electronic signature is accepted :)

Those require editing into the pdf :)

Re: Your next phone?
 

You can do that with Xjournal now

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I understand things need time.
In a half year or so I will see how reliable Nokia is committed to its customers and which alternatives are out by then.

will have a look at iPhone 4 then (nice support for all devs so far...) and more likely androids ( maybe then with more GNU). Or N1000, if that brand shows more support to their tablets by then...

N900 with cap dispöay 64GB faster processor .... more robust and wider basis of users would be fantastic. Lets hope Nokia does not mess it up.

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I think u are confusing n900 with a laptop.

PDF Editing is the weirdest request I've seen.
Printing support should be easy with cups.
Some picture editing (red eye, rotate) is already supported. What else do u need? ... Photoshop under wine?

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i agree with this guy:)

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My crystal ball is broken, so I can't predict what my next phone will be.

It may be a Nokia, or it may be something totally different. While I like the N900 and I think it's a fine device, it doesn't mean that it's the end all of devices/phones. We'll see what the next 6 months bring us.

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Well the N900 is a mobile computer right? It is a ultraportable tablet, not a netbook, full size laptop or a full size tablet :)

I have personally reduced the time I spend on my full size laptop at home by probably close to 90%, my father says about the same thing for him. That relieves me of lugging around 5-6lbs of computer, charger and other stuff.

If the N900 could do the things above I´d just leave my laptop at the office in the afternoon and weekends.

With a bluetooth keyboard (which currently doesn´t work after the week 46/51 firmware update), the N900 and plugging the N900 into any of my LCD tv´s I´ve got almost everything I need as far as evening/weekend computing is required. I don´t do heavy games any more so no need for more processing power than that.

I´ve mapped my 3TB drobo NAS from the N900 so I´ve got all my digitalized CD´s on hand as well as all my digital photos.

I know, with easy debian you can do the printing and the picture editing in Gimp. I´ve already got that set up. But easy debian is not native maemo :)

And I never said that PDF editing was a "basic" feature, I just said I´d be in absolute heaven if I could do that.

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How can this question be answered. I just got my N900 in December and I love it. Does that mean my next phone will be a Nokia/Maemo phone?
Not at all.
I will buy the "phone" I think is best suited for me. At the moment N900 is just that. No other phone has the kind of capabilities the N900 has, not even close. I love how someone put this. I'll give him credit if he sees this and claims it as his frase:

The N900 is a baby with super-powers. It hasn't learned to use all of them yet, but it is learning fast.

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Jumping the grun from my first nokia (3310) to the n900 (With all other brands inbetween) i think my best device out of the 12 odd phones since then would have to be the d500, my winmo phones wizzard and universal were good, but not too well built.

N900 promises to make me look onto nokia for much more products.

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My next phone was going to be the N900 but the limitations and firmware problems led me to hold off. The omission of the N900 from the Ovi maps announcement made me decide to wait to see what the the Dell Streak offers.

I'm not looking for Acrobat and Office functionality in my phone YET. I have a pocketable Win7 UMPC that does that for me. But in a year I expect to see that capability on my next next phone (and it better have a bigger screen than the N900 because my eyes aren't getting any better).

Nokia?