Re: Nokia N900 vs Moto Droid
 

wow, some great math skills there! :S This is why statistics get a bad name

Re: Nokia N900 vs Moto Droid
 

there's a thread for that already :)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33091

Re: Nokia N900 vs Moto Droid
 

Did you take into account the number of Droid users still trying to type www.flickr.com on that obscenity of a physical keyboard :)

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

The following threads have been merged into this thread:

• "Nokia N900 vs Moto Droid" with five posts
• "N900 vs Milestone" with thirteen posts

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

some pictures comparing the milestone/droid with the n800
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1262988...ags/milestone/

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

the droid looks bad because of that lip on the bottom , but it's still awsome
,just screw them all and get the nexus or wait for maemo 6 & bravo & symbian 3 ;)

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

what's bravo?

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

the sensed un-googlized rumered htc bravo , the same spec +sense UI and an uglier design

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

They funniest part about this poll is that 16.42% of the people on this forum own / prefer a moto droid over the N900....but have an account and hang out in the Maemo.org forum . . .


I think we have some some N900 lovers that are trapped in the closet :D

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

hahahaha :d

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Oh so you mean a new maemo smartphone without a hw keyb? eeiiiww :D

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

What's funnier: fanboys who can't understand that people have mixed feelings about platforms, instead of seeing them as black&white all-or-nothing type situations ... and thus lack the intellectual capacity to understand liking maemo enough to stay on maemo.org, but preferring a particular android device over a particular maemo device. Ok, maybe that's more pathetic than funny.

(though, the motorola droid/milestone isn't the android device I'd pick over the N900)

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

YES. It's not funny. It's just sad.

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

I think the droid looks better than the N900, it's slimmer and larger screen.

But I still prefer maemo over Android, most android apps are java based, and access to the command line is not as open as maemo. And with the N900 I get the Nokia build quality, the Nokia specs which means a good camera, good GPS, good speakers etc.

The problem I find with android devices is each device runs the same core OS BUT the h/w depends on the manufacturer - for example the speaker on the HTC hero is crap and it's only mono. Droid has stereo and is better.

Android is more and iPhone competitor and as such very simple and easy to use.

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

I think Droid is also good and mature than Maemo5. Also Driod 2.1 is fantastically good. Nexus One is already out and running it. Nexus one is $699USD but has 1GHz snapdragon and 512MB of RAM in it, it does feel like a desktop to me. Also it has the largest flash ROM for the OS than any other Device out there right now. N900 is only 256MB ROM.

Would have been better with 512MB, we would be much better with more free space to not worrying about limited space for updates lol. But no keyboard is no go factor too. Camera is also the same spec. Battery life is 6hours with moderate use on Nexus One, I think. Seems like it drain a lot of battery of 1400mAh isn't enough juice for it to sux dry. 600MHz is enough i think. But more RAM can never go wrong with N900 :D

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

How does the Droid look when you add a chrooted Debian?
(see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=44894)

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

THE ONLY let down of the droid / milestone is the word "motorola" before it..... :D otherwise, it would've been in my left pocket right now

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Well I have the Milestone for this weekend and I've played around with it only for a houple of hours. Here are some of my initial observations and opinions:

- I love how slim this phone is. However, the slimness didn't feel like such a big relief I thought it would be. The N900 is not too thick after all.
- the keyboard is OK, and I think the N900 keyboard has received a lot of undue criticizm. Sure it is great to have a few extra buttons, but the key shortcuts in N900 make it a dream to use. For example, you can't "select all" with the keyboard. You must hold shift and paint.
- even this "raw" Android looks really good and unsurprisingly has that finished feel to it. I like the general look of it and its consistence. After PR1.2, some terrible sides of the Maemo UI have been revealed. For instance the/Skype video chat/looks really bad slthough it/works like a charm!
- this browser is nowhere nearly as good as MicroB and in fact/typing this post has been quite cumbersome. Pinch to Zoom requires that I move focus away from this text field and as I tap back in, it always tends to move so that I can't see this entire box at once. Really missing MicroB now.

I have a few observations more, but they'll have to wait because I simply can't go on for longer with this keyboard and browser.

This is turning out to be quite an eye opening experience of all the/features that the N900 is constantly being bashed for not having or having implemented them incorrectly, such as the resistive screen vs capacitive.

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Raw? Please explain

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

I only mean that it is the stock Android without an additional UI such as the SenseUI. I'm running Android 2.1. on the device.

Had to jump back to my N900 to get a taste of something I'm used to.

Now this is no final verdict, but I think there's something about the web browser experience on the N900 that I might not be able to cope without. The Android browser opens pages up very nicely, but I can't stand the "touch" or "mobile" versions of sites. I want everything as it is. I'm also missing my device being connected to the internet all the time, eventhough there's nothing in particular I want to do online! :D Go figure.

Somehow I suddently felt like I had nothing to look at on the Web with the Milestone browser.

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

I am running both N900 and a Nexus One (not Droid, but maybe relevant to this discussion) with Froyo (Android 2.2) for a few weeks to decide which to keep. I am running the Nexus One for about 2 weeks, then will switch back to the N900 for a week or two before making a judgement on which to keep (or whether to keep both).

Initial impressions after 5 days with the Nexus One w/ 2.2:
- performance is great, extremely snappy, no lag like I sometimes get with N900 while multitasking
- very mature OS, lots of little touches missing from Maemo
- miss the real keyboard on N900!
- missing the accuracy of the resistive screen, esp. when trying to click on small links in the browser without zooming. also miss being able to use stylus to write notes quickly
- MicroB is a great browser. Miss it on Android.
- Clearly developer momentum is there with Android. Lots of good commercial apps that are just missing with Maemo that I enjoy using (e.g., I have a Rhapsody subscription, and it is great to be able to use on my phone)
- Email is vastly better on the Nexus One.
- Miss near universal cut and paste on the N900
- Miss simplicity and effectiveness of the maemo dashboard for multitasking - kind of clunky to switch apps and see what is currently running on Nexus One
- Miss integration of Skype and IM into contacts and the phone app
- Phone app way better on Nexus
- Desktop and car dock are great for Nexus One. Of course if I wanted an ecosystem, I'd get an iphone.
- certain tasks are really efficient on the N900. E.g., being able to open the keyboard and type the first few letters of a contacts name is awesome

My key reason for considering Nexus One was related to (a) poor email experience on the N900, esp. Exchange and IMAP implementation and how slow it is to switch mailboxes, a task I perform many times a day; (b) the rate of OS and app development and total lack of confidence in Intel's ability / track record on delivering software - Meego was a big confidence hit for me in future of the platform; (c) lack of developer interest and investment in Maemo platform. But email was the big one - I'd probably never consider a switch if email was on par with Symbian (e.g. if Profimail was ported and Nokia had implemented Exchange with something close to Symbian implementation or even close to competive platforms.).

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Okay it seems that the batterylife in the Droid/Milestone is a bit worse than with the N900.

I charged the phone up today with power switched on to get the most out of the charge. Lasted about 5hrs with moderate use. For me the N900 goes on for atleast 9 with heavy use.

+1 for N900.

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

End of discussion Motorola sucks major donkey balls. Simple as that trying to compare a Motorola phone to Nokia phone the Nokia phone is always better. Now the Milestone/Droid looks pretty cool but Motorola has been pretty bad about rolling out updates to the Droid/Milestone took it a while to get Android 2.1 and multitouch despite the Droid having the hardware capabilities. The one thing that pissed me off about the n900 is that didn't video conferencing despite having a front camera but now with the latest update it has it. Also Motorola=fail I can tell you from personal experience had moto razr tried making phone calls on it and I could barely here used a Nokia flip phone instead sound quality was much better. Americans don't know how to make cellphones (Except maybe Palm).

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Man, you just suck! :D

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Hi, some questions: :)

- how is cut-and-paste performed on the Nexus
- how does the switch-app on Nexus look like, why is worse?
- what about the sw-only keyboard. how do you see it for yourself, after being used to the N900's one?
- and the speed, is it really quick (or, as you say, snappy) all the time? You know, its what attracts me to Nexus, my N900 is kinda slow (like hell last few days) ... and I must say I reflashed both eMMC and rootfs after 1.2 appeared and its only few days ...

Thanks! :)


PS: Sorry for (possilble) OT, but its a competitors forum anyway ... :)

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3764/t...torola-droid/1


Anantech revisit two OMAP 3430 phones giving an in-depth comparison of the N900 (Maemo 5 PR1.1) and Motorola Droid (Android 2.1).

They do touch on a couple of PR1.2 features too :cool:

Re: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
 

Hahaha....excellent, made me laugh.
I agree from past experience with Motorola phones.

Although I have to admit, I too was trying to choose between these same 2 phones and read countless reviews on both.

Ended up with the N900 and happy with it.

Reasons:
Droid just looks to square and ugly to me, personal taste.
Droid keyboard too flat and wide, smaller hands.
N900 slightly faster CPU by default.
N900 has Ovi Maps with offline map download, although not quite up to pair with Symbian version...yet.