Hey,

I have been using the Nokia N900 for a bit over a day now and have a bunch of comments/impressions/questions.

Firstly, its a great device! Although I would like to see better applications. I don't need a lot of applications but the e-mail application would have been better.

The browser seems to be great but I think watching all that hype about it sort of raised my expectations too high. However, I think this may be because the first page I opened was Facebook and with its shitty chat and crazy bar at the bottom, the whole page just looked messed. Over all, I'd say its still the best browser on a phone!

Secondly, I am a bit confused about message notifications. If I remember correctly, I saw a video showing new text message notifications in bubbles to the right off the main task bar. I only see them on the Conversations widget and cannot access them directly. The applications button (four boxes) gets highlighted and I have to access the messages from there. Is that how is it or have I missed something?

Thirdly, how long should it take to charge? I think my phone is taking too long to charge but that may be because I have been using it every now and then while it is connected. Also, people say you should fully charge the battery and drain it a couple of times to optimize battery life. How important is that? I didn't charge it fully. I just connected it to the computer and started using it.

What is the battery life like with continuous Wi-Fi or 3G connectivity? I had a couple more questions but I forgot. I will add them later if I remember.

Hi!
I won't answer all your questions, but specially about your question on the battery: old batteries used to require many charge cycles from empty to full to work properly. On the N900, there is only one cell in the battery so you DON'T need to fully charge and then drain many times, There is no memory in it.
If you want to optimize your battery, do many small charges instead of 0-100% in one shot, Charge whenever you can, staying between 10% and 90% is good. You can charge 2-3-4 times in a day, 20% each time and the battery will last a long time! For sure, it all depends on the use you make of it!
For Wi-Fi or 3G, they must be off when you don't use them. To check email, you can use 2g/2.5g, it's enough. Check in the maemo extras repo, you can get an app that you can use to easily switch between 2g and 3g
Hope this helps

Thanks for the reply.

I remember another question now: Whats the best way to use Facebook with the N900? It appears too messy on the browser. Should I use the mobile version? Is there an application?

Thanks for the 2g/2.5g tip in particular. I wonder how much battery it would save compared to using 3g.

Messy in the browser? Looks to me the exact same as on my desktop pc to me..

It looks fine except for the bar at the bottom. Sometimes the bar stays in the middle of the page, sometimes it stays at the bottom. It is weird. It is hard to browse Facebook.

The only annoying part I've noticed when in landscape is that the bottom right square that brings up menus (switches out of fullscreen) is in front of notifications/friend bar.

But as now I always browse facebook in portrait(if you don't know you put it on in browser by clicking ctrl+shift+o), and tilt it to landscape when i have to write something, it's not a real problem.

What about the message notification?

The message notification bubble pops up briefly after you get a new message. It's just an alert though, there's no way to access the message from there.

I'm not sure what you mean. When I get a new msg the top left button highlights and when I click it I'm directed to the message/messages. If from multiple people I think it opens up view of taskbar or whatever you call it with all open windows. Then you see the new messages as highlighted windows.

I've become so lazy after getting shortcutd application, that I'm too lazy to hit the top left button, and just hit camkey mid way to see windows and then click window. Would be a stretch otherwise :P

You can use the normal facebook.com, lite.facebook.com, or
m.facebook.com. Choose which one you like most.