[theking2]

Problem free? ehm, no no device is.

N900 is a great device 

1) Firm feel, solid, good weight and size, excellent handling

2) A keyboard! a real one. Great isn't it (they should get the German language one right)

2a) A touchscreen! that doesn't scratch. 

3) Compared to the N97 Excellent battery live (if that says anything.

4) Perfect sound quality

Maemo is a great software

1) It's Open Source! it's linux. Unclear what Meemo will do to it though.

2) Feel free to kill rogue application. You have a Real Computer in your hands

3) Tap in the world of real developers to get things done. Although Nokia didn't and will not include MMS a friendly developer made an excellent fMMS application!

4) Good looks, at least for a Nokia phone. Don't expect a consistent user interface. That only a **bleep**-like dictator like Jobs could accomplish.

[rmarco]

N900 is a great device... ok, of course,... when you forget about the bad points:

1) firm and solid ? 7 points of 10.... if you forget about the fragile USB-charger port

2) good keyboard and touchscreen,... ok, i like them

3) excellent battery live ? i had to charge twice every day, is it excellent ? no, it is not :-(

4) good sound ?   no, my nokia N95 had much better sound, no good hands free

5) bad photo-video camera,  again worse photos and videos than N95, and still only 5mp

great software ? ok, i am a linux fan

but when i found there was not MMS i realized N900 was at least as bad as iPhone,

the best point for me: i could configure automatic continuous monitoring and ssh access to the computer clusters i use to manage,

[theking2]

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rmarco wrote:

N900 is a great device... ok, of course,... when you forget about the bad points:

1) firm and solid ? 7 points of 10.... if you forget about the fragile USB-charger port

me:was fixed, at least I don't see the problem on my device. Things do break, what I understand from the boards is the below par customer service in India. Which btw I find very strange: India should be one of the focus markets of Nokia as in the States they are confronted with rather quite some competition

2) good keyboard and touchscreen,... ok, i like them

3) excellent battery live ? i had to charge twice every day, is it excellent ? no, it is not :-(

me:read the "conserve battery power pages" carefully. I get one day. But indeed it is attached to my laptop's USB port when I'm at work. My first mobile phone would last two weeks. But remember this is a mobile computer which happens to have a phone build in.

4) good sound ?   no, my nokia N95 had much better sound, no good hands free

me:don't know the N95, the N97 has abysmal microphone quality.

5) bad photo-video camera,  again worse photos and videos than N95, and still only 5mp

great software ? ok, i am a linux fan

but when i found there was not MMS i realized N900 was at least as bad as iPhone,

me:fMMS

the best point for me: i could configure automatic continuous monitoring and ssh access to the computer clusters i use to manage,

Me:now isn't that great

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Did I mention the integration of ALL messaging channels. No matter what SMS, Skype, Phone they are all merged into ONE contacts list. An SMS conversation is kept together much like GMail and skype - style.

Having said that, no phone is "perfect" obviously. And have I mentioned cognitive dissonance? I just paid the 500 Euro to get it.

But thanks for the words of perspective. marco

[rmarco]

Hi,

I also had it connected to the laptop usb when possible, but it would help a lot to have somehow the possibility to have a hot-swap battery, (the extra battery provided helps but it is not a good enough fix),

fMMS ? ok, i think i only tried an old version and it has not the quality that should have such a terminal, maybe the last one could be better,

i agree the integration of ALL messaging channels is something new, and i liked it,

i very bad point for me has been the technical support,, when a friend had a problem with his iphone it was replaced by a new one in three days (and UPS transport), but i have had my terminal not working since 3 months ago :-S (and had to wait for hours a queue in the nokia care shop),

thank for your comments,

[bas1]

Well I will start again, I tried to post my respond and Nokia website decided to state there was an error, so I lost the reply to this post.

I guess Nokia did not like the blunt truth but I changed from a Nokia N97 to a N900 and wish I hadn't, there have been so many problems, I am going to change my phone again.

The phone freezes every 2 weeks roughly, I have to turn it off for a minute then start it up again, it does solve the problem but it is so annoying.  The touchscreen fails at times and no matter how hard you press the screen it won't respond.  I have to charge the battery twice a day and always have the car charger handy in the car for a top up.

The latest problem is the last straw, the phone will not send emails anymore, I took the phone into Sure c&w shop, to see if they could help, seeing as Nokia choose not to respond.  The young girl in the shop tried for an hour and a half but could not solve this problem, even the manager couldn't help, she tried to save the data to the memory card so she could revert the settings to a default when it was purchased, only to find you can't save data like contacts etc to the memory card, this is basic in my mind but gave up.  If I can't carry out basic tasks like sending emails, the phone is not worth having, considering I spent nearly £500 early in the year.

I have had Nokias in the past but this is the first model which has been so reliable, considering it is the most expensive phone I have owned.

At the moment I am tempted for the iphone 4, which should be at least more reliable than this N900, as it is in greater demand, I was told in the phone shop they don't sell many of the N900's, now I know why but the iphone is always a top seller.

[fox348]

i have had the nokia n900 for over a year now and found it a great piece of kit, only issue was no mms but downloadedd fmms which solved that one

go for it

[Sever]

@bas1 - i upgraded from an n97  to an n900. it was a better experience.

the issues you've listed sound you like bought a faulty device, did you even bother to send it to a nokia care center to have them replace it?

as for turning it off every 2 weeks, you should be turning it off once every 3 days to refresh the device, ive been doing this with all my phones for the last 8 years or so.

battery issues were fixed in pr1.3. you could also run titan's kernel to improve battery life.

theres an menu option in contacts to export contacts to file, so im not sure if you even bothered to look since its a pretty easy to find option.

as for sending emails, the phone is an internet tablet. open the browser, open your email, send the email.

the n900 is a niche device. the iphone 4 is not without its share of bugs. my friends constantly complain of their iphones not opening applications, constant crashing and freezing, despite running the latest OS.

[bas1]

The problems I have now with the Nokia N900, have only occurred in the last 4 months, the first few months were fine and I could send emails without a problem as well.  Sure cable & wireless tried to solve the problems, it was their support staff that tried to save data and contacts to the memory card not me, I just took their word for it, that there was a problem. 

They could not understand why I could send emails for the first few months but can't now, bearing in mind they did try for an hour and a half, showing a lot of patience.  I have never had a phone freeze like this one does, the Sky box yes but not my phones and I have been using mobile phones since the very first one I had in the 90's, which was the size and weight of a house brick, so certainly had plenty of experience with phones.  The N97 I had wasn't perfect but it didn't have the amount of problems this one has.

I have tried contacting Nokia for quite some time now, to see if I could take it to a Nokia service centre, as we do not have any here and would have to travel to England, unfortunately, they do not respond to any of my emails, so have been no use whatsoever, the warranty will run out in a few months time, so doesn't look hopeful to have it checked out under warranty.

None of the problems I have now, were evident in the first few months, so if the phone is faulty, it will be the first phone I have ever had that has developed faults, I just renew my phones when I see a new model on the market, this is the most expensive of all the phones I had, yet it has been the most unreliable.

[bas1]

I downloaded fmms about a week ago but it still won't work

[weescotsguy66]

I would say no for a number of reasons

1 The mike does not work with Skype

2 There is very little applications to use.

3 The battery life is very very low.

weescotsguy66

[maxximuscool]

@weescotguy66

I have to butt in today because I can't stand you trolling this forum.

I would say that you're dead wrong. Why did I say that?

1. My skype works with my Microphone very well. I don't see where you got that fact from. Skype works perfectly and integrated into Maemo5 OS

2. I never short in amount of applications to use. I got more than 150apps installed on my N900 and never a day without new fresh apps showing up in the repositories. Games? yeah plenty, Preenv (runs Palm Pre WebOS games), Nitendo Emulators, Super Nitendo Emul, Gameboy and gameboy advanced emul, many more.. Apps? HDR camera, Fcamera, Koffice, conky, Fennec, Fapmanger too many to counts. All useful apps and tools. Plus side is you can hack the hell out of it. I hacked my FM Transmitter and wrote my own little program for it.

3. Battery is great. With m insane usage I still get a full day. I'm a geek and I'm not using it like normal user would do. I don't see Any symbian or android or even iphone last the same as my N900 with 10 tasks opening at once.

If you don't ever owned a N900 then stop trolling here mate! Go get one yourself and then start tlaking. I've been using mine for 1year already and it's still the best laptop replacement device i never have before. N900 is great!! and not to mention that N900 also runs Android 2.2 and MeeGo OS. Dual boot as well. So complaining about no apps is only for Noobie like you would.

Maxx