In a nutshell, the Nokia Australia website calls it a touchscreen mobile computer.
If I ever get fined by the police for ("using a mobile phone") changing a playlist in my car using the fm transmitter, I will take it to court and win on the basis of it not being a mobile phone.
In a nutshell, the Nokia Australia website calls it a touchscreen mobile computer.
If I ever get fined by the police for ("using a mobile phone") changing a playlist in my car using the fm transmitter, I will take it to court and win on the basis of it not being a mobile phone.
Works for me.
P.S. Poster above......wrong thread mate.
UK law doesn't use "mobile phone" or "cellphone" in its wording. So, mount the device in a craddle and call it handsfree, weasel words will not help you.
mobile phone does not include a CB radio or any other two-way radio;
I suppose that laptops and Internet tablets aren't mobile phones, even if they have some cellular connectivity added, are they? So, I would support you in this argument, though I'm against driving.
EDIT: Humour: in some countries you can get punished for keeping cellular phone in your hand, but will not get punished for keeping a computer on your lap, even though it is more dangerous, isn't it? It would be interesting to try out the latter... though you would need a smart car for it which could prevent a collision when you cannot.
Why do you need to clearly define whether it's a 'smartphone' or 'mobile computer'? So far, I've only seen people doing that to further their stances in forum debates.
IMHO, within 5-10 years we will all have pocketable "smart computerphones" in our pockets.
In theory the only reason why pople call it a phone and a smart phone and a mobile computer blah blah. Is because they look at 2 things, what the OS is and then the screen size. (Some people take into acount a full qwerty keyboard too)
Honestly though it is more of a mobile computer if it has to catogery. I mean you'd think most people would be happy with the the "product" and not need to debate what the hell it is. Although I strongly do agree with a lot of you that it is not (Just a phone)
The reason why it put it in that catogery is because it can do all the things the Nokia Booklet 3G can. Except for run Win7 and do all the processing. Simply because if the N900 was made to do all that it would have a bigger screen and the battery would be the same size as the device lol
So there is my take on things.
You tell me a "phone" that can run Maemo, Android, Meego, Ubuntu, Windows 95. Most of them on a multiboot configuration.
Also you tell me a phone that you can make and receive calls not using any credit, if you insert a mobile broadband sim card you can with this via all the voice services intergrated with the device... Better still, no sim card just connected to a wirless network. In town or at home.
& remember "Mobile" does not mean its a phone. Mobile meand it's smaller and easier to move around, more efficient.
Mobile CPUs, Mobile Homes, Mobile Missiles, Mobile Phones, Mobile Netbooks, but yes Most of those are related to "Mobile Tecnology"
I bought mine under the section of 'phone,' from the expansys website. So retailers think it is a phone, who cares what a bunch of rubbish techies at Nokia want to call it. You call it what you want based on what you use it for, though smartphone is a better description.
I also call it a phone because it isn't a computer.
My pocket computer is Dell Axim x50 Pocket PC from 6 years ago, was half the price of the N900, is more powerful at computing. Came with a 624 MHz chip and had a word processor that worked. Contacts worked. I turn it on and it works, I load software and they run, I plug it in and it charges, I play games and they don't crash. There are games, I can go online and buy games and software for it. (even today) and it multitasks.
My N900 struggles with all of the above (yes even the turning on)
The N900 is either a bad phone, with other features or a really low powered and poorly performing pocket computer.
I would accept it is a multi media device. When it remembers what an .AVI is, it can play media much better than my Dell axim.
In a nutshell, the Nokia Australia website calls it a touchscreen mobile computer.
If I ever get fined by the police for ("using a mobile phone") changing a playlist in my car using the fm transmitter, I will take it to court and win on the basis of it not being a mobile phone.
No, me thinks you would be done for 'dangerous driving', 'driving without due care and attention' and being a muppet.
the answer is simple but still so hard to find. the n900 is everything, its you, its me, its a mobile computer and a cellphone in once piece. live with it.
An even better way to put it is, st's plastic with metal parts has a screen and a battery in it.
It makes noise and vibrates, you communicate with it in various ways. So really every phone, laptop, all in one desktop is the same. The main difference is the way all the bit's were stuck together and the speed of the metal bit were tuned to.
