Re: First N900 Review
 

How much is the 32GB upgrade worth to you?

Re: First N900 Review
 

I thought the N810 was quiet, too. Then I discovered some 3rd party mixers (like aumix). No idea how all that mixing correlates (and pushing sliders CAN get you weird combos), but it can get stuff LOUD.

Re: First N900 Review
 

I always like the idea of having a phone and a tablet with me.
But since I get my Android phone, the tablet is being used very few times now..

I used to connect via bt (was painful, but you didn't have to do it all the time) to my SE phone and it was very usable then.

Then Android made me discover the wonder of being always on-line the way it was meant to be. Always, not Whenever you've got a connection.

But what I am missing in this Android phone is:

a) screen real estate
b) a keyboard, a physical one

The N900 has both. I will definitely love it, I would love to buy it as well when it comes out.

But.. I am sure I'll miss the complete google interoperability of the Android phone.
My Contacts, Mail, Calendar, Docs, Pictures and so on, where right on my phone in a nicely formatted way.

I would like the new Nokia browser to show me the mobile version of some sites (Google ones for example), while showing ALL of its potential on the other websites.
I know it's fast enough to handle them, but I will never use Gmail on a 800x480 3.5" screen.

Good job Nokia, this is the right move.

Just let us know when we can apply for the developer program :D
(even though, I have the feeling it won't come this year :( )

Anidel

Re: First N900 Review
 

It's possible. :)

Dude, relax... this N900 will be jim dandy a year or so after release. I figure with a harmattan device on deck, the price of these units will be halved soon enough. :cool:

After 2 1/2 years with an N800 I jumped when a member recently offered his N810 for $150. Nothing wrong with the N800 but that was the best $150 I ever spent on a gadget. IMHO the N810's sound is a little tinnier but actually louder than the N800's

BTW, there are quite a few devices with an improved N800's feature set about to come to market... just not from Nokia. :)

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How 'bout american football then? Hide your beagle, Vick's an Eagle. :D

Re: First N900 Review
 

He's talking about a second stylus in the box.

The real quote is :

"Perhaps they’ll decide to throw in an extra stylus into the box (since the N900 already comes with one built into its casing), much like the one that came with the Nokia N97."

Notice the "extra" stylus.

anidel

Re: First N900 Review
 

I won't be buying it at this point, but I can't blame Nokia. I'm the opposite of the target audience! My N800 does everything I need, and I'm a price-point late-adopter. It's just going to have to get cheaper. And then there's going to have to be a cheap data plan like the cellphone plans that charge you only for usage, not by the month.

I'm also not sold on the pure finger UI; I like a stylus-oriented UI. And, even more, I like the bigger N8x0 screen. (Though I'll be interested to see how people on this forum -- especially older, presbyopic types, who also browse and read a lot on the device -- like the screen once they own the N900.)

Ultimately, Nokia may have to blame Bundyo for a lost sale :D; were it not for tear, I might have felt the need to upgrade for the greater horsepower.

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$100? That's the difference I paid to get the 32GB 3GS over the 16GB version.

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he must have changed that. i've copy and pasted that directly from his preview...

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Well, that makes sense. He also corrected "Freemantle" at the start of the article.

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Nice analysis by Eldar at the beginning; is this community ready for the attention?
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I have two N97s right beside me right now; hardware on this looks very, very similar. If the build quality of the first one I got, regardless of price, Nokia has a winner and then some.

Subsidized, this device will be $399-499 USD. A subsidy making it cheaper than that says that this device will be a huge success; and I think it will, but like the Ford FiveHundred, not initially, only after its seen on the road a bit.

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The UI/UX team gets my sincere applause. Thank you.

EDIT: Small request for the next time you make a genre-bending device though: take a chance and reinvent the way communications are done. That would have natched both techies and consumers in the intended facility.

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Eldar always writes in a way to make you see the next steps if you read the lines carefully. The RX-71 should be very, very ground breaking. Nokia's CEO made a comment once about netbooks being nothing more than smaller laptops, that Nokia understands the difference between a computer that's mobile and doing mobile computing. I'm very intrigued, and think that the keyboard-shifting model is coming, with Maemo 5.