Anyone looking @ an N900, killer price

[Pliablemoose]

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1610279

I'm sorely tempted, I use my phone as an internet browser more than anything. Will likely take a pass as the screen is smaller than I want to settle for and I want a bit more polished OS/app store.

 

[gorcorps]

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1610279

fixed link, you were missing the 'm' moose-face

 

[Pliablemoose]

How the heck did that happen?

 

[theApp]

I got my N900 about a week ago. I love it, but be warned, the phone part is pretty...basic. There aren't even groups for contacts, so don't buy it if you're looking for a primarly phone device. For browsing, it really is awesome. I love the interface and the openiness of it.

 

[Chapbass]

Honestly, I use it for a phone quite a bit, and find it very easy to use as a phone. Want to find someone? just go to your contacts and type 1-2 letters of their first or last name, not too bad at all. Maybe thats just me. I've honestly found it to be exactly what I'm looking for in a phone.

Anyone looking for an iphone alternative (honestly, better than an iphone imo), give it a look, its quite a breath of fresh air.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I looked at the reviews a lot last night, finally decided I'm going to use my G1 till it dies, maybe 6-12 months.

I love the potential of it and have come very close to pulling the trigger on an n800 and an n810(?) In the past, guess my best defense is I want a bigger screen, like on the Dell Streak, and that damn MaxiPad is due out soon too.

 

[Chapbass]

I looked at the reviews a lot last night, finally decided I'm going to use my G1 till it dies, maybe 6-12 months.

I love the potential of it and have come very close to pulling the trigger on an n800 and an n810(?) In the past, guess my best defense is I want a bigger screen, like on the Dell Streak, and that damn MaxiPad is due out soon too.

When I got my n900, the only thing that I was remotely sad about was the screen. I could really use a 4.1-4.3 inch screen, 3.5 is just a tad small for me

The UI feels great though. Everything just...makes sense to me.

 

[SuPrEIVIE]

Hmm i want to go after this phone but at Dell they seem to be charging tax to NY but other online vendors i have never been charged. They are asking for tax exempt certs wtf

 

[Fox5]

Hmm i want to go after this phone but at Dell they seem to be charging tax to NY but other online vendors i have never been charged. They are asking for tax exempt certs wtf

Yeah, dell charges tax pretty much everywhere. And you probably won't be able to get out of paying it.

 

[SuPrEIVIE]

yeah unfortunate news last time i bought from there was in 04. Well the coupon mentioned by the OP expired, there are one-time use 30% off coupons. i was going to use it and tested one to see if it works and it did. Then i tried to order by phone to try to include the 70$ instant but no luck when itred the coupon again it is no longer valid for the n900 so i guess i will keep waiting.

 

[tokie]

Nokia sucks, and this phone doesn't look to turn that around.

It says something when they have something like 5% market share in the US/Canada. Don't know why the Euros keep buying their phones instead of iPhones/Blackberries.

 

[zerocool84]

Nokia sucks, and this phone doesn't look to turn that around.

It says something when they have something like 5% market share in the US/Canada. Don't know why the Euros keep buying their phones instead of iPhones/Blackberries.

Umm cus Nokia makes great phones and they are all available to use pretty much everywhere in Europe. The N900 isn't a phone, it's an internet surfing device with phone functionality thrown in as an after thought. Also it's not meant for the masses like those phones you mentioned. It's a phone that's needs to be tweaked and hacked. If they wanted to make it idiot proof like the iPhone they could but don't want to. I'd never get the N900 but it's a cool device that surfs the net better than any device it's size and that's what it's mainly meant to do, not be a phone.

 

[Fox5]

Nokia sucks, and this phone doesn't look to turn that around.

It says something when they have something like 5% market share in the US/Canada. Don't know why the Euros keep buying their phones instead of iPhones/Blackberries.

Symbian looks like it was way ahead of whatever palm and microsoft were pushing for most of the decade.

I have the n900, and the build quality is really good (though that's apparently true of most nokia phones). Not to mention the hardware and features are incredible, 32GB of space, fm tuner and transmitter, one of the highest quality cameras available on a phone, and it actually gets a decent software base due to cribbing off debian and open source. I've got so many random apps on my n900, it's an awesome communications device in general (not the best as a pure phone though), and can virtually replace my laptop, gps, and tons of other tiny devices. Playing divx files right off the phone, that I can download the torrents directly to, and playing them back on a tv using the included tv out cable is pretty cool.

I would change a few things about my n900:
The phone functionality is extremely basic, and the volume on phone calls is low.
The FM tuner app I got is buggy, and it seems purely like an afterthought that they included an fm tuner, like some other piece of hardware just randomly had the capability.
The resistive touch screen is just ugh. I still have trouble clicking on things with my fingers, and the stylus still isn't very precise, despite what proponents of resistive touch screens claim. I'd rather have a magnet based touch screen like a tablet (or a combo), but I suppose that might be a bit bulky for a phone.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Nokia sucks, and this phone doesn't look to turn that around.

It says something when they have something like 5% market share in the US/Canada. Don't know why the Euros keep buying their phones instead of iPhones/Blackberries.

It says something when you've slipped to pretty much dead last and the only phones you make are rehashes of your RaZr. So here in the US you think Nokia's the dumbest thing ever, and the rest of the world figured pre-Droid Motorola was the dumbest thing ever with its RaZr phone while everyone here hailed it as the best phone ever for years.

Nokia has brought a lot of things into the market that you finally start seeing in the US

- Nokia's N95 was the best 5MP cameraphone out on the market
- Wifi + 3G? Many phones didn't even have WiFi back then. Even some BBs didnt get it till recently. The only comparison was really WinMo
- Awesome entertainment set. 3.5mm jack. What the hell. Name a phone in the US that got 3.5mm jacks before the iPhone? OH wait wtf.
- Name a phone in the US that got LED flash 2 years ago. Oh wait like nothing. In fact name a phone in the US that had better than 2MP camera capabilities back then. Nope. Nothing. Try again.
- What? Touch Focus is the coolest thing ever now that you can pick something to focus on? You mean my 2005 SE K750 could autofocus also by using a half press of a shutter like any regular camera? Did the US totally miss out on autofocus cameraphones or something?

The fact is even though RIMM has a monopoly on smartphones in the US pre-iPhone, RIMM wasn't the big thing in the rest of the world. You'd be surprised. When I was in Asia, I was telling them how I prefer capacitive to resistive. They asked me why? I said because I want to type. Then they were like ????? people use handwriting recognition. I was like yeah sorry I type English. Then they were like OHhhhhh.

The world market is very different. I think the smartphone market in the US really started as a productivity, get-work-done type of atmosphere with BlackBerries and stuff. Apple really got people thinking that smartphones could be fun and interactive.

The rest of the world was stuck on insane camera phones, MP3 phones, etc etc. It's a very different market. To us Americans, I don't get why Blackberry hasn't dominated, but to me, I don't see why people are amazed at the iPhone getting a 3MP camera when 3MP cameraphones were out in early 2006. It's just things like that. Multimedia phones were the rage too. MP3 players. We're not talking about MP3 capable like the RaZr was. 3.5mm jacks and stuff. Sony's Walkman phones, Nokia's N-series had decent MP3 capabilities.

The N900 is a very good phone. It's different from what we have seen, but it's still an amazing device in itself.