More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

I bought the N900 directly from Nokia for £499 in September 09, finally got it mid November 09. Was very excited about it but now not too impressed.

Only pros about the device are that it plays DivX and Xvid,
Video recording WVGA (848x480) @24fps,
32GB built in memory plus MicroSD up 16GB (or 32GB if and when it comes out).
Very good browser,
Multitasking.

Cons-
No portrait mode
Crap battery life,
Resistive touch screen,
Screen also very delicate (already have a slight indentation in the middle of the LCD not on the screen itself)
Nightmare how to work out how to create a playlist,
No equalizers
Quite chunky device
Cheap camera cover
Unstable OS
New software updates don’t seem to do anything.
Can’t reformat device without flashing
Can’t move icons, reorganize menu or add folders

How can they talk about MeeGo and maemo6 when they haven’t kept their promise about a proper update for maemo5?

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

Let me say sth,

Cons-
No portrait mode Meego will support it !!
Crap battery life, It's enough.
Resistive touch screen, Don't u think it works perfect?!
Screen also very delicate (already have a slight indentation in the middle of the LCD not on the screen itself) I don't really think so.
Nightmare how to work out how to create a playlist, u have to learn moreNo equalizers There's a new software supporting it!!!!
Quite chunky device Smaller than N95 N96 N97, what do you want?!
Cheap camera cover So what?
Unstable OS What?! windows 7 is stable, so you?
New software updates don’t seem to do anything. Fix bugs!!
Can’t reformat device without flashing
Can’t move icons, reorganize menu or add folders

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

my conclusion is there are many things you have to learn

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

I can't agree with one single point of your cons but with all of your pros^^

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

Do you believe that MeeGo will be here by the end of the month? Why first say that there will be a major update for maemo5 with loads of fix’s and software and then don’t do it? It will be a NoGo next.
A phone that is powerful should have a decent battery life.
Got to admit that the resistive screen is the best I have come across but they could have made it capacitive for the type of phone it is.
Playlist isn't a problem anymore but it is when you don't know what you are doing at first.
The N900 is not a mature OS, someone from Nokia told me it's a geek’s phone. Let the geeks/developers sort the problems out themselves. Which I don't think is right.

Either way I do like my N900 it’s just little basic things that should have been there in the first place that annoy me and 95% of people who own the N900.

But hope your right about this MeeGo

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

I'm highly skeptical of that statistic, especially given that the N900 is packed with features and preferences are very personal, not universal.

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

exactly!!!!

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

Unstable OS? Do you know what the word "unstable" mean?

Also, portrait mode.. really? If you look at my posts that I wrote when I first registered I used to b*tch about the lack of portrait mode, but.. now.. seriously, I don't see the point of having portrait mode on the N900.. but that's just me..

New software updates don't do anything?? What do you mean?? A small example, going from the original firmware to PR1.1 didn't do anthing to your N900? If you think that it did not.. You need to pay a bit more attention.. Can't reorganise the menu, icons.. etc? Well it's because you haven't searched the threads on this forum.. You can do it (not easily though).. but you can.. Oh, also PR1.2 will have that support; so also that contradicts that "con" that I mentioned earlier.

Also after reading your thread, all I understood from it is that you didn't do your research on the N900, and just ended up buying the wrong device...

Don't get me wrong here, I am not saying the N900 is the "perfect" device, because no device out there is "perfect".. But it's by far the closest to perfection...

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

I'm by no means a Nokia fanboy, but your cons aren't really convincing. They may be true but sound like pseudo-cons, stuff i can easily live with, except the battery issue. Why not adding the black color to your cons list? Or: Why not putting your creativity into something more constructive?

Re: More Cons than Pros for the N900
 

Please people, don't reply to these threads (bit of a hypocrite but its already there) all it does is keep it up on the active topics list while serving no purpose. Maemo900 I don't mean this in a rude way but what did you wish to achieve in this thread?
do you want advice? some technical help on how to do something? was it a very subjective mini review for a community which probably already owns the device or one of its predecessors?