First N900 Review - Page 23 - maemo.org

attila77 | # 221 | 2009-08-20, 11:58 | Report

Originally Posted by geneven View Post

Instead of forcing people to pay heavy monthly charges, give the connection away!

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. You're paying for that (almost certainly capped/throttled) connection all right, it's just that the cost is hidden elsewhere.

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vkv.raju | # 222 | 2009-08-20, 12:11 | Report

Originally Posted by geneven View Post

The Kindle isn't suited for movie-watching, it's black and white. But it is fine for email, and free is a good price. It's not that slow. I have far more agonizingly slow ordeals on my N800 and N810 than on my Kindle, mainly because the KIndle isn't so ambitious. It does a very good job at what it does, rather than doing a poor job at an incredible array of things.

I know, this isn't a Kindle thread. But it seems so brave and contrarian a direction -- instead of color, black and white! Instead of forcing people to pay heavy monthly charges, give the connection away!

I'm no expert, but I don't see that kind of courage in the N900. It combines a bunch of technological trends; I don't see anything original about it. It's just geek++

What would I do with a device which serves no purpose to me, even if something is offered for free. Rather offer me the device for free and I might consider it then ;-)

Kindle is supposed to be a device for reading books and it can't do that enough. I love photography and I have some good books for them. How does Kindle solve my problem!

I prefer to go with jack-of-all-trades sort of thing rather than master-of-one.

A whopping $489 for a 9.7 inches screen just to see stuff (email, rss, proprietary format books) in black-and-white is not worth the price. Not at all, atleast in my books.

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dansus | # 223 | 2009-08-20, 12:38 | Report

Im this close to buying a N810, am i just being silly?

I broke the last one and now im missing it more than ever.

sevla | # 224 | 2009-08-20, 12:44 | Report

Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post

"It won't become a hit, but at the same time the N900 is a milestone both for Nokia and the industry that won't just go unnoticed."

Why would it not be a hit?

The phone is missing some very key features... That's all I'll say.

benny1967 | # 225 | 2009-08-20, 12:52 | Report

Originally Posted by dansus View Post

Im this close to buying a N810, am i just being silly?

Hehe... you're nor alone. I use an N810 right now, my N800 started to fall apart recently (screen issues) and what did I do? I bought a new N800.

Now. With the first photos of Rover floating around.

Because not only do I feel the N800 is better suited for certain use cases than the N810, I also am convinced that both models are closer to what I personally need that any Maemo5 device will ever be.

The N8x0-series may live longer than expected.

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galf | # 226 | 2009-08-20, 12:54 | Report

Would anybody know how much physical RAM N900 has? In the review Eldar states, "However from the technical standpoint, it doesn't differ from the N97 at all". This suggests to me that it could possibly be only 128 MB.... I'm really hoping for 256 MB as the leaked specs seemed to suggest.

benny1967 | # 227 | 2009-08-20, 12:55 | Report

Originally Posted by sevla View Post

The phone is missing some very key features... That's all I'll say.

MMS? If that's it, I'll have to stay out of a lot of forums for quite a while or the Apple-crowd will tear me apart. - I remember what I (and others) wrote about a "phone" that couldn't even do MMS

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dansus | # 228 | 2009-08-20, 13:01 | Report

Originally Posted by galf View Post

Would anybody know how much physical RAM N900 has? In the review Eldar states, "However from the technical standpoint, it doesn't differ from the N97 at all". This suggests to me that it could possibly be only 128 MB.... I'm really hoping for 256 MB as the leaked specs seemed to suggest.

I read recently that it has 256mb and 768mb virtual but who knows where they got that info.

Maybe they meant 128mb RAM/ 128 ROM and the 768 is swap space.
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YoDude | # 229 | 2009-08-20, 13:06 | Report

Originally Posted by sevla View Post

The phone is missing some very key features... That's all I'll say.

And that's where open source development comes in... Apps that auto display user defined, previously stored contact information, retrieve or construct new contact information from incoming calls (reverse phone number look-up while in call, social networks, etc

), screen calls based on a selected profile (work, personal, on holiday) and ring, flash, or send to voice mail as assigned, and do whatever cell phone users have complained was lacking in cell phone software over the years... and that's just the start. I imagine software that can recognized phone numbers or web addy's and provide links in received SMS could also be developed.

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livefreeordie | # 230 | 2009-08-20, 13:12 | Report

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post

I imagine software that can recognized phone numbers or web addy's and provide links in received SMS could also be developed.

S60v5 already does that.