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Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by geneven (Post 821145)

I got a special deal on my purchase of the N900 from Nokia -- and to make it really extra-special the warranty was reduced to an incredible one week in length.

yes and you paid less for your device...

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st (Post 821159)

I dunno; I think a few minutes, a $5 replacement USB-micro jack, and my $100 temperature-controlled solder rework station... I'd have it replaced with no issues.

I'm not too worried about the lack of warranty(Got mine used, IMEI number turns up no warranty), nor the USB issues. I am -slightly- worried about it either getting lost, stolen, or breaking into two or more large pieces. Either those, or frying the processor due to OCing.

where do i go check if my IMEI gives me warranty coverage?

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 821137)

Shall we post pictures of analog phones to address any phone related complaints against the N900...?

How about pictures of super baggy pants for its size deficiency...

Super baggy pants for 18mm?? Size deficiency??

These are my N900 and my brother's iPhone 3GS:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9934/20092010498.jpg

To avoid harm to his iPhone my brother bought a standard snap-on magnetic cover.

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/5696/20092010500.jpg

Hmm..The N900 seems thinner than the iPhone with a cover, a standard pack of cigarettes, and a standard wallet.

So ysss, I guess when people were happily prancing about with their iPhone 3GS and bought a cover to protect it, they had to buy and quoting: "super baggy pants". And for all you smokers out there, or people who dream of carrying money with them..get ready to buy: "super baggy pants".

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by windows7 (Post 820665)

Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

for example: digital compass for me is one such limitation

The reason i ask this is because, i just purchased an android phone for my wife, very good deal for £99, and found afterwords that this phone will not be able to support flash 10.1 due to physical limitation at the hardware level.

You ask an interesting question.

External to the N900 is the ever changing world around it. Think of the IBM PC XT. Mine still does everything it did for me 25 years ago, which compared to my AMD Athlon 3000+ with 3 GB ram, isn't very much. Things that are internal to my XT work well. It no longer gets along well with the world around it.

I don't see any hardware limitation that will limit its life. I do see external technologies advancing to where the N900 will be less and less capable of properly handling those external items and you might want to grab a more technologically recent device.

From time to time I use a 2G phone because I like the camera on it. I don't upload those pictures to the Internet directly from the phone like I do with the N900. If a call comes in while I'm using it I can take the call. What I don't use is an analog cellular phone because that technology is dead. So, as long as GSM in the current bands is offered the N900 will be a phone with some use left.

Whatever replaces the N900 will face this same issue. It will be a fully capable device for those things that are internal and gradually less and less capable of dealing with the world around it. I don't see a way around it with the current paradigm of unupgradeable at the hardware level devices.

I can gut my XT box, throw in a new power supply, a motherboard/processor/RAM combo, new video card and network card and my XT would be able to deal with the world around it again. There is no end user component upgrade for your N900.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago (Post 821163)

where do i go check if my IMEI gives me warranty coverage?

It all depends on where you live. In the US of A you go to nokiausa.com

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

I've just read about this proposal of using some frequencies in the "old" analog TV range for a replacement for WiFi that can go thru walls more easilly, reach much farther from a single transmitter than Wifi, and has much bigger bandwidth (or perhaps it was just speed), i don't think the radios in the N900 can be tuned into those frequencies without actually gutting it and trying to do the same job with your hands as a pricey factory robot and with risk of physically bricking your device at the slightest shiver

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

Seems i shouldn't have gone to that site, i think now my warranty ends in 10 days....

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by pantera1989 (Post 821165)

....So ysss, I guess when people were happily prancing about with their iPhone 3GS and bought a cover to protect it, they had to buy and quoting: "super baggy pants". And for all you smokers out there, or people who dream of carrying money with them..get ready to buy: "super baggy pants".

I think you've missed the point of my post.
(Post edited to drive down the point and beat the dead horse further).

But I will entertain your challenge anyway :D

iPhone 4 vs n900: (both nude)
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4...one4vsn900.jpg

iPhone 4 (w/ case) vs n900:
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7...casevsn900.jpg

Droid vs n900: (both nude)
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/5135/droidvsn900.jpg

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 821192)

I think you've missed the point of my post.

But I will entertain your challenge anyway :D

iPhone 4 vs n900: (both nude)
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4...one4vsn900.jpg

iPhone 4 (w/ case) vs n900:
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7...casevsn900.jpg

what about pics from iPhones qwerty?
(e: and maybe you should compare iPhone to E7, they are about the same age...)

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 821196)

And pics of N900's portrait mode, gyroscope, digital compass, 720p video recording, na na na... 1320mah battery... etc

c'mon dude..

are you suggesting that qwerty doesn't need room at all compared to tiny compass?