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Re: should I buy a n900 now?

anjin, i'm from zaragoza!

(it's a little strange to talk to you in English since we are both Spanish, but since this is an international forum, I don't like to exclude anyone...)

If you want to test the N900 I have seen it exposed at MediaMarkt during last year, but I'm not sure they have it anymore...
I also have seen it in El Corte Inglés, they still sell it without contract, but they haven't updated the price! it's still over 600€!!!

As for the "should I buy it" question... I like the device very much! I would buy it again, even now that it seems a little hardware outdated.

I'm a very mad with Nokia at the moment anyway... I don't know what's going to happen with N900/Maemo/Meego and with Qt/Qt Creator which I use everyday...

I hope someday we can have a N900 sucessor, even if it's from Intel. As for the N900 I hope mine doesn't get broken until then :-)

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

in response to original question:

yes if you can find between $100 and $200 and also screen size is sufficient for you
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Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951324)

Personally, I can't get over the fact that I'm using the exact same Vim text editor on my N900 that I use for all my work on my desktop machines. Not a crippled version, or an app that kind of looks like Vim, but the real deal. That, along with the fact that I can squeeze 80 columns of text onto the screen and still read it easily, means I can work with serious documents and source code files without any trouble.

I'm certainly writing more with my N900 that I'd ever expected I would with a cell-phone-sized device.

Well. this is certinly a very good news. The keyboard lack is the worst thing on my device right now, 'cause its affect every other use on it.

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951324)

I'm not sure there's a much simpler way than to use the usb cable. :) Also, I connect to my Mac over bluetooth without needing any third party applications; that works quite simply as well.

I don't know how the n900 does, but my other nokias connected by usb cable are seen from the mac like a external usb memory. It means I can browse them from my mac, but not the reverse. I cannot browse the mac from my mobile. For doing that I use a bluetooth application on the phone.I'd like to know if there is some kind of file manager on n900 to browse file on macintosh (or pc) using the wifi or bluetooth. I am not sure if I am able to explain right. Sorry for my bad english.

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951324)

Well, odds are the N900 will pretty much be the last of its kind to come out of Nokia. Android phones really don't give you the same kind of options you have with Maemo (unless you hack them to do so), and of course iOS and WP7 are essentially useless except as containers for pointless little apps. (Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but my previous phone was an iPhone; I enjoyed playing with it for a while after I got it, but eventually I just ended up doing nothing more with it than answering phone calls. I just don't have time to sit and watch teensy tiny pretty little apps doing teensy tiny pointless little things.)

WP7 is out of my interest; Android could be a better option than symbian. I am a apple user, but I don't like iOS, and dont' like the limitation of the system. I like the big number of applications, but I don't want an iphone.

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951324)

In short, the future may look bleak for the N900, but there's not a lot of competing products that can do what it does. I think it's still worth far more than the competitors.

More I read about it, more I like it.

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 951344)

Buy it if you like it, Buy it if you want it, Buy it if you need it, Buy it if you can afford it :)

Those are the wisest words you can never forget.

hmmm: I like it on the paper, 'cause I think you have to try a device before to say you like it. ;)
Do I want ti? Sure... it and 3 or 4 more... :P
Do I need it? I can live without it, but it seems I could do a good use of this little beast.

Can I afford it? Yes, but I hate to waste my money on something I am not sure enough or good documented about. :)

But I see your point!

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by anjin (Post 951739)

but I hate to waste my money on something I am not sure enough or good documented about.

Hey! It could be a great paper weight if you decide to use something else - just joking.

But seriously, once you get over the form factor, everything else inside is just great. I don't do development stuffs but am still learning and enjoying my N900 after 5 months!

I just wish someone will help develop 3G video call and voice navigation to go with the Ovi maps.

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

@anjin

are you still thinking to buy N900??????

if i were you, i had bought N900 as yet

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951324)

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In short, the future may look bleak for the N900, but there's not a lot of competing products that can do what it does. I think it's still worth far more than the competitors.

could not agree more !!

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by anjin (Post 951734)

Ah, sorry! I got it backwards. :) Yes, I've been connecting my n900 to my Mac as an external USB drive, and that's also what I've been doing with bluetooth. I've never tried to do the reverse...

Hmm. From a quick check of the website here (and a little browsing on my N900), it seems that (as shipped) the N900 has no clients for NFS, Samba, even command-line FTP. I am able to browse my Mac via FTP through the web browser though, so at least that is available. It looks like UPnP is also available, if you're wanting to use your Mac as a media server.

But you can probably get client software for pretty much anything. (Except perhaps AFP. :) ) I guess the more important question is, in what manner are you wanting to share files from your Mac?

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by NoX (Post 951670)

anjin, i'm from zaragoza!

(it's a little strange to talk to you in English since we are both Spanish, but since this is an international forum, I don't like to exclude anyone...)

Cannot agree more. Better to talk in english here!

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Originally Posted by NoX (Post 951670)

If you want to test the N900 I have seen it exposed at MediaMarkt during last year, but I'm not sure they have it anymore...
I also have seen it in El Corte Inglés, they still sell it without contract, but they haven't updated the price! it's still over 600€!!!

I find the price for a n900 brand new really out of the market, especially in Spain. I know that's a big device, but it's old. Nokia almost don't update it, and the price on the road is around 500 euros?!

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Originally Posted by NoX (Post 951670)

As for the "should I buy it" question... I like the device very much! I would buy it again, even now that it seems a little hardware outdated.

I'm a very mad with Nokia at the moment anyway... I don't know what's going to happen with N900/Maemo/Meego and with Qt/Qt Creator which I use everyday...

I hope someday we can have a N900 sucessor, even if it's from Intel. As for the N900 I hope mine doesn't get broken until then :-)

What do you use your n900 for?

Re: should I buy a n900 now?

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 951778)

Well, it's difficult to know what I will do with the n900, but I can tell what I do sometimes with the x6. If I am transferring some files from the device to the mac or the reverse I use bluetooth from macintosh and just browse the device memory. If they are big files I use the usb cable and use the mobile as a external memory. When I am at home but in other room (read for ex in the bed) and I want to see some files I have on computer, I have more problems. I have this BT application that permit it to me. I'd like to pass in Wifi. I think you are talking about it when you say there are clients. I suppose I could use a SMB protocol... Anyway it's not something I cannot live without.