Nokia N900: Best Power-User Smart Phone?

[Guest]

@Hannibal: Of course it has GPS (http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900/specifications#navigation-gn)

I love the fact that N900 has a built in FM-transmitter for easy listening of your favorite music in any car. I haven't used a Nokia for 5 years and been using WinMo phones instead but now I'm really unsure whether to buy N900 or Milestone next - my current phone (3 years old HTC Hermes) is dying.

 

[zhqing565]

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[jlpoole]

I'm a power user. Was watching OpenMoko and concluded OpenMoko has died. With Google's phone rumored to be just around the corner, I'm going to wait for the Google phone and then do a comparison.

 

[Gariusb]

[citation][nom]LordConrad[/nom]Don't forget to mention the biggest drawback of the N900:It uses GSM, which has been cracked. http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-213.pdf[/citation]

Good ole' phrakkin Gibson Research. Making conspiracy theorists of all of us. http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2001/25.

A little late to the party eh' Steve. http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/jon/a5.html. Every time someone mentions this dude it makes my blood curdle.

 

[kanaric]

Verizon? No? don't care.

 

[Guest]

Intel has not backed up Maemo, the writer must have confused Moblin with Maemo. Maemo is all Nokia (and open source community).

Maemo was not designed with N900 in mind, maybe Maemo version 5 was, but I would think N900 just happened to be the first Maemo 5 phone. All the previous Nokia tablets used Maemo linux too.

 

[bydesign]

This phone is a failure, it's too big and not very good at anything. All of these devices must be a good phone first, a collaboration tool second, third a computer. The are working in reverse order and have it all wrong as the market will show them.

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]I wonder why would I pick this one over Samsung's WinMobile based Omnia with much better screen.[/citation]

WinMoble, have you read the reviews of the Omnia II? Just like my Omnia is crippled by the OS. Winmoble must use a stylist lol.

 

[Guest]

@bydesign

You haven't used N900 then? Or at least used the browser...

 

[Guest]

@jamezrp

No, 480p is ED, 720i/p and 1080i/p are HD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_definition

 

[Guest]

remember how good dvds look, and they are 480p. I'm sitting on the fence too, and i've been a nokia user for 14yrs (1610 anyone?). i just wish it had digital compass and hdmi-out then its complete. if no rumour comes out about n920 or something in the next 4 weeks i will get n900

 

[jamezrp]

Doesn't really matter guys, since the N9000 puts out 480i. But thanks, I didn't realize that 480p wasn't technically HD. Damn PR and marketing terms get to you sometimes.

 

[Guest]

can any 1 tell me which is better??? aneroid phones or n 900...i need the suggestion about the use of applications,browsing n all

 

[jamezrp]

[citation][nom]twoface-coolguy[/nom]can any 1 tell me which is better??? aneroid phones or n 900...i need the suggestion about the use of applications,browsing n all[/citation]

Depends what you need exactly. We reviewed the N900 much earlier this year, and Nokia is already working on a new OS, so it may be better to wait for that (we don't know, no word on how their new OS operates). However, I thought the N900 was a damn good phone (as you've read). The thing is, Android has much more apps. They just hit 50,000 last week. I'm betting that within the next 6 months, they may reach or even surpass the number of iPhone apps.

Realistically, it depends on what you need. If you want awesome browsing, I'd say the N900 is better. The OS is cleaner, it's more powerful a device, and works better than most Android phones I've tested (which includes the Droid, HTC Hero, and Nexus One). However, all those phones are growing much faster than the N900, and with new updates coming out constantly, and tons of new apps available daily, at least the latest Android devices (like the Nexus One, Droid, or HTC Incredible) sound like a better investment.

Unfortunately, I don't have any of those phones in-house, so all of this is conjecture based on prior use.