Wow so we should all not get the n900 and just wait till 2011 lol. I mean if there is a better device coming thats all well and good but we talking about a 2 year gap like everyone else said. Who knows where android will be at this point let alone iphone(maybe there will finally be multi-task ) . To me he is *reaching* there wasn't a real reason to mention something not coming out in 2 years what exactly did he gain from this i guess the talk like we doing now. In the end we will just have to see what sammy does and what other companies will counter.

And page views.

I dislike the mention of to bad it's not 2008 the processor has to to scale down in terms of operational drain on the device that means it can't really get more powerful that what it is today as arm can scale up and still maintain it's draw levels to be relevent in mobile form factors... Oooh cortex A9 is looking so yummy...

Yeah it's a pretty biased comment. You might as well compare the Atom to a Pentium 3, and say it's too bad it's not 2003, missing the whole point (and better part of market segments). Duh.

Wow, looking at the picture from a bit far and high above ... I am amused by the quick changes in emotions and feelings of the community (and I ama part of it).

Before Nokia was announcing the N900 there was so much anger directed at Nokia and so much of "rancour in the ranks" so to speak. So many of us were spelling doom and gloom for Nokia and were all for jumping to the next big thing.

No that the N900 is out, the same guys are chanting for Nokia (very good) and thumping down mention of any competitor or even shooting the messenger (Eldar). THAT seems like a cultish behaviour.

But looking at it objectively Ragner and Quimm and Peter put it into perfect perspective - this is not BIG news, since its about a device still 2 years away - and of course something 2 years down the line will be better than what is ready for the market now.


So guys just realx and chill and take the news easy and nice. Its just another hardware / OS on the horizon maybe and yes we can discuss that without getting frothy-mouthed.

(note : we remember how a device (N900) just a few months away could and did make us all frothty-mouthed a few months back, don't we :-)

I would definitely take Eldar's words with large grain of salt. I'd give you some examples from his Russian-speaking part of mobile-review forums. There he is claiming that Microsoft will port Office to Maemo in 18 months, as part of deal with Nokia. He also claims Nokia will not ship N900 in Russia except for few hundred devices.

Take your grain of salt too.

Hi,

Eldar won't disclose any info about what he's actually using:

http://twitter.com/eldarmurtazin/status/4031319820

Further more, he wants to know what I'm using:

http://twitter.com/eldarmurtazin/status/4031346321

So... He's being fairly dishonest with his findings. Not very professional.

Tim

Sounds like he did not get the n900 he "reviewed" straight from nokia.

I think 60% of what he talks is nonsense.

How is he dishonest with his findings when he's not divulging any infos?
His excuse is rather plausible too. Especially in light of a few prototype N900 that was found for sale in an Indonesian forum.

Wild speculation about what another person has... maaan this takes me back to the Sony PSX days back in '94 when people wanted their hands on that hardware, very few people did and when I got my hands on it before most people in the US, I was met with some heavy questions, put together the PSX Faq on usenet and still got flamed.

This guy might have that N900 that popped up on sale a while back. But he's not likely to explain his ace in the hole with anybody.

Can't say I don't blame him. I didn't divulge my contacts, even a decade and a half later...