Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

How about a correctly designed, working USB port? That might work!

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

I surrender, you have beaten me at playing internets with this incisive, witty comment.
It would somewhat mitigate my humiliation if you could at least give me a hint why an inductive charging wouldn't work. I stupidly thought it would be a fun experiment.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Because it's highly inefficient and you're far less likely to carry around your induction pad or find one freely available in a cafe or restaurant and a whole HELL of a lot less likely to see induction pads on the seats in an airplane. Just saying.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

next best choice: a brand new N900

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Get a spare battery??? I'll be travelling from this weekend, so I'm going to get a spare battery to keep my N900 alive.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Just got a new (original) Nokia battery. Charged it the whole night yesterday, still full bar until now with slightly heavy usage. Does this mean?

• The 6-mth old battery was has degraded (by now, normally reduced 1 bar)?
• Problem with the battery indicator?
• Longer charging = longer lasting?

Will continue to monitor the battery differences. By the way, anyone knows how BatteryGraph monitors new batteries vs old (because I noticed the mAh and mv were the same)? Does it even matter?

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Interesting. However, my post stated that an induction charger would be preferable to swapping batteries all the time, which had previously been suggested. What you've written does not appear to be pertinent to the discussion because, unless I am mistaken, an induction charger would not preclude you from swapping the battery when necessary. Although it is nice to know you must travel in a better quality of aircraft than i do.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Don't all airplanes pretty much have powered USB ports on all the seats nowadays? I mean.. that's what I've seen and I travel cheap. :P Last time I travelled, though, was by Amtrak train from Massachusetts to Colorado and back, and that had two standard AC ports along every seat. I imagine induction charging the whole time would have been both a little weird and space consuming (have to lie the thing down on it all day. All I had to do was plug in my tablet and phone via USB adapter and it didn't matter whether they were sitting on the tray at my seat or stored away in a pocket or a bag while plugged in (i.e. while I sleep).

I'd still argue that a well designed, repaired or working port is preferable to swapping out batteries as well as induction charge for every reason stated--and it does appear to be in line with the conversation despite your disagreement. Thanks, though, for trying to make me feel like I travel around in higher quality... I'll try to remember that next time I'm buying the bargain coach fares. :)

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Buy a new toy. Just experiment with new toys. Try WinMo.

I grabbed an iPad 2 - no real reason except it's a brilliant ebook reader. N900 is too small to read on (eye strain).

Get a high powered phone like LG Optimus X2 and just run Maemo in a chroot! Best of both worlds!!!!

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Ive yet to be in a plane with any form of charger (usb, laptop, etc). Maybe its a first class thing.

I will never buy an LG phone, no matter which one or how powerful, ill constantly see it as a washing machine or something.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Nope--I've never flown first-class in my life.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

I was kidding. But seriously, ive never seen any from Australia ~ Germany, Germany ~ Australia, Belgium ~ England, Scotland ~ Belgium, Australia ~ Bali, Any domestic flights in Australia.

Guess im just unlucky.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Choices - HTC EVO Shift 4g, Droid, Droid 2, Samsung Epic 4G, MyTouch 3G Slide, Sony Ericson Xperia X1, Moto Flipside and Flipout, HTC 7 Pro

Those all seem to have keyboards and Android. I can tell you the change over to Android isn't really that much fun. Yeah some nice app's here and there but more or less just boring. I find myself using the old N900 more over my Samsung Galaxy S 4G every day. If you are going to switch make sure it has a keyboard, the on screen keyboards is just about annoying [big reason I still go back to the N900]. Messaging and such isn't really any different.

I made the move to another device not long ago out of choice, you seem to have the choice of a "possible" repair, replace with the same device or jump the shark and get another device. If your going to go, now would be the time, if not buy a replacement and move on to other threads.

As to Dan, you guys keep feeding him -lol-. Keep trolling man, if you get fed then its worth it.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

I got myself a Milestone 2 recently, great phone I don't have any complaints and it felt like a nice transition from my N900.

No stock flash mods for it yet because of the locked bootloaders but I can live with it. The only features I'm missing currently is packet injection but again, I still have my n900 for that, FM radio transmitter but ill fix that with bluetooth audio system in my car, and TV out which I used a fair amount. I'm setting up an old laptop to replace it with the Xbox media center.

The best thing about it is probably the navigation system is very sweet with clever traffic updates that avoid jams. Battery life is better than n900 as android auto murders any CPU hungry apps.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

hi! i'm reading your comments.. Guy! U gotta make pressing. Talk them about the warranty, they must repair your device.. I'm going to tell u my experience..

7 months ago i had the same problem. My USB was broken.. The i printed some pages about the "N900 Micro USB become Broken" in the TMO, i left them all the printed pages.. they repaired My N900 after 2 weeks :) for free

2 weeks ago, my brother had that problem too.. Then he went to the Nokia Service Point and they told him "u gotta pay 150 euros.." after this, my brother called me telling me that "hi bro.. u know what? my usb has dead.. now i left my n900 in the Nokia Point and it's not too expensive.. I gotta pay 150 euros to repair it.." My face was burning couse of that! I called that Nokia Point to tell them "u cant pretend money for this kind of hardware bug, it is a common trouble that we all had and much more people will have!", the men asked me "u cant decide when a phone is or not Under Warranty Coverage.." and i "Yes, i cant.. But Nokia Care, can do it! U WAS WRONG becouse this is a common trouble and Nokia repairs it for free.. Bye Bye donkey!" then i told to my brother to take away the phone from there.. He left it in one more Nokia Point... how much to repair? it was free.. Warranty it's ok to repair that.. dont be too good with some people, pretend respect.. They must repair it for free u r not a stupid!!

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Next best thing to an N900??

OS: Android (w/o locked bootloader, rootable, community support)
Features: Slide out qwerty, standard ports etc
Performance: >400MB RAM, >500MHz (A8)

Here is the list of all Android slide-qwerty phone contenders arranged from best->worst according to my insight:
(choice depends on your gsm/cdma frequency, language and budget).
1) Samsung EPIC 4G
2) HTC Desire Z / T-Mobile G2
3) HTC Evo Shift 4G
4) Droid (original OG)
5) Milestone 2 (locked)
6) Droid2/WE (locked)
7) Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (locked)
8) Cliq2 (locked)
9) Milestone (locked, but custom ROMs available)
10) LG Optimus Q
11) MyTouch 3G Slide
12) LG Ally / LG Axis / LG Apex / LG Aloha

-------vv beyond here, not worth it:
13) Samsung Transform
14) Xperia X10 mini PRO (locked--bypassed yesterday!)
15) Motorola CLIQ / DEXT
16) LG KH5200 Andro-1
17) Samsung Moment II / Samsung Intercept
18) Samsung Galaxy Indulge
19) Samsung Moment
20) Samsung Acclaim
21) The first consumer-Android device
HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1
22) LG GW620

Choose one of these fellas, Or wait for a dualcore Cortex A9 to debut, Or wait for HPalm WebOS phones (if you're into portrait sliders). Don't forget the Thanks button :)

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

Guys like me are PROPER Nokia care ! i have not yet seen an N900 that cannot be repaired, the usb port being the biggest issue is so easy not only to repair but to make sure it never happens again.

As for Maemo being dead i think many will disagree with you on this forum and as we have MeeGo in the make it will soon be time when the N900 device jumps UP in value.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

i just come back from vegas to australia 13 Hour business class i can confirm usb ports in your chair and even use the tv to browse your emmc and play ur music or photos.

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

What were you flying with; QANTAS?
Economy, Business or 1st Class?

Is the remote in side the arm-rest/beneath the screen that's behind the headrests?

Too many questions I know, just curious.
Oh how was Vegas, anything like The Hangover?

Re: Dead N900 - What is the next best choice?
 

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/t...on-xperia-pro/

go for this until nokia get their things together and releasing a meego device with keyboard.