Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

I like your username :D I'm not sure where in the world you are, but we have cream for things with that name over here ;)

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

I don't know if it would make any difference to you but whenever I have it more than 5 days on it's like it starts falling apart. Slowness is one thing, and bugs that show up then as well as crashing apps are another. Gtalk fails to sign in (green dot flashes forever) mail is mostly non-responsive, main menu becomes so laggy that interprets taps as tap-n-holds. I'm sure its some specific thing I use that goes rogue because my N950 is always fast and smooth, though I don't use it as a daily phone, and doesn't have feeds and all that stuff.

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

Just checked my wife's pink N9;

~ $ uptime
22:20:09 up 36 days, 8:42, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.07
~ $
~ $
~ $ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1008648 906996 101652 0 32292
-/+ buffers: 874704 133944
Swap: 262136 2812 259324
~ $

No mods on that phone at all except for developer mode and increased text size on messaging. She uses the phone for calls, texting, regular browsing, videos, wlan hotspot and occasional navigation.

I, on the other hand have totally different setup on my N9; open mode, nitdroid, debian, whole load of tweaks and mods... For me the device is a hackers swiss-army multitool rather than just a fone. At any given time there is several python scripts and just-cooked utilities running on the device. (and I just love the fact that it behaves like my desktop, I can pull stuff directly there with svn and compile it on the device!)

I couldn't ever go back to using anything less than that... I mean who cares about million apps? It's nice I can have some games, meetrainer, navigation apps etc on there but the important thing is it runs python and gcc :D

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

[offtopic]
try: as root (if that's possible on the N9 ?!?:confused:) :cool:
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Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

Never had to reboot, because it became slow or laggy, sometimes use DropCache and it's ok again.

There also was a thread about using DropCache and Profilematic in combination, result was to drop cache every morning and everything works fine if i remember right.

I never used gmail...

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

qwazix,
the gtalk issue is faced here too due to the changing of connections several times a day... What i do is open the availability menu and click all online and then all offline 2s later... Then once it stops flashing, click on your desired status and it works...

My review
 

1 word to describe n9 - beauty.

Been using it for 4 days now. Very good although theres a sudden slight hiccup now and then. Txting and calling was a breeze considering im migrating from ios and android.

Things that need improvement (at least for me)
- facebook app need to be update
- front facing camera is .... Lost of word.
- need maemo.org app :)
- what is ur normal charing time from 40% to 100%? Mine seem to be longer then expected.
- bareable sound quality ( too much something ..)

other then that it feel amazing. Whens the last time nokia make phone this good? And yes, no regret on running away from those typical android and ios.

ps - what other thing that u do to ur n9 to make it more butter smooth and would not interfere with daily usage.
- faster n9 mod? Do suggest.

currently running pr 1.3 with no mod.

Re: My review
 

From 20% to 100%: 2 - 2 1/4 hrs in house and 2 1/2 - 2 3/4 hrs in car.

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

@Forged yes, install FasterN9 and most of the slight hiccups and lags will disappear.

I noticed that if I use the cable given by Nokia and charge from my laptop.. it charges faster. Through a wall charger, it's kinda slower. Perhaps it's just me.. I have no idea why.

Re: A Non-Programmer Review of the N9 as your daily phone.
 

im 19..easy sell..got an n9 n an n900...mostly using the n900 atm cuz of yappari .. had the battery drain issue after intalling nitroid 4 on my n9..love both my devices..also got an ipad.. the n9 is perfect for me..im not into 5000 apps also..need a good torrent app..the only thing i think the n9/00 misses is a good icp proxy app..the n900s got your-freedom but its not enough..the n9 is perfect for day-day living