I am a convert now, I hated this phone since I got it because I was always comparing it against my almost painfull Nokia 5800 and its features but as I started to use n900 and the downloaded few applications from Ovi store and Maemo.org I am loving it, following paragraphs explain why it is the best so far.
Put simply, it is one tablet and phone (yes ! computer and phone together) that is versatile, scalable and in many sense future proof from technology upgrades.
It is scalable because you can add more memory by adding SD card in the slot provided. Some smart owners have already clocked it 1 GHz !!! speed.
You can configure upto four desktops, I have configured one for shortcut to games and music, other to utilities like weather forecast software , third for phone related and fourth for social media such as facebook and twitter (there are widgets available)
It is versatile because it is capable of doing more than one thing at a time and that too efficiently. You can easily run more than one application at the same time and it will not complain.
WiFi, which is common now on most of the phones and devices is common and standard on n900.
Future proof because it runs open platform operating system, currently, Maemo 5 which has reached end of life as far as Nokia is concerned but there are already projects in advanced stage to port Android on N900, would you believe ! and MeeGo, Nokias new version of Operating system (originally thought to be Maemo 6).
Video is excellent quality on 3.5 inch screen (not HD though) and sound is great too. Some of the games are really great such as Angry birds, roller coster ride, Bullbbels etc.
You could simply buy music in any format and download to your device and play (cant do with some of the other smart phones specially iPhone)
If you are a programmer then you will be most excited to own this, you could write code in Python or Nokia's new Qt platform and compile and run it easy. With Qt your applications are portable across other nokia phones that are based on Symbian or Meego on Nokia's future devices (sort of makes your applications future proof, isn't it?
Did I mention that you could actually access the operating system through a shell prompt , yes the dollar prompt to run the linux commands and if you write your shell scripts and even better download apps directly from here too !!!!!!!
Few things that I don't like :
- No phone buttons, only screen based call answer and disconnect, needs a bit of practice to get used to.
- Ovi maps does not come with turn by turn instructions and voice commands as is the case with the Symbian phones.
If you are looking for just the phone don't even consider this.
These days it can be bought for $400 -$500 and compared to iPhone at $800+ which is on a closed platform (not matter what Steve Jobs says about open platform but open platform rocks) I cant complain any more
Some of the usefull links before you buy this.
maemo.org
Android on n900 : http://www.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=NITDroid_project
Meego : Meego.com
and for developers in addition to maemo.org
qt.nokia.com
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