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Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by sachin007 (Post 316975)

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24. Kick stand.

The kick stand can be used to watch videos especially on the plane. It is a minor addition but is huge in usability.

25. Open source operating system.

Off all the features the apple iphone will never be able to beat this one. Most of the applications are free to download and use. Anyone can work on anything and submit their application. There are no restrictions of any kind.

26. Languages

N900:
British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian

iPhone:
English (U.S.), English (UK), French (France), French (Canadian), French (Switzerland), German, Traditional Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin, Zhuyin), Simplified Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin), Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese (QWERTY), Japanese (Kana), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Estonian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Flemish, Arabic, Thai, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, and Croatian

So the N900 can only be used by people who don't have to write in non-European/American languages ...

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by shusai (Post 324317)

Now, I don't know much about how hard it would be to switch the locale on Maemo, but shouldn't it be pretty straight-forward to add language support as its open source?

EDIT: Non-latin languages would obviously be hard to type out with the QWERTY, but you get the stylus and the touchscreen for "icon" based languages... :)

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

Heheh, so now there's a new 64GB iPod Touch. Finally enough flash to store my music collection. Same or better for the N900 please Nokia.

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

Well, they will call the factory right away, dump all the hardware and redesign it again to have 64GB storage. And that in under a month. :D

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by ralphb (Post 324473)

Heheh, so now there's a new 64GB iPod Touch. Finally enough flash to store my music collection. Same or better for the N900 please Nokia.

The n900 already supports 32gb + 16 gb micro sd. If you buy another micro sd... u get 64 gb and so on.

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

@sachin: by that logic, the n900 comes with a 10,000mah battery** ;)

** = optional 8 packs of spare batteries are sold separately.

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 324490)

@sachin: by that logic, the n900 comes with a 10,000mah battery** ;)

** = optional 8 packs of spare batteries are sold separately.

And I think that's a valid statement since nokia had the good sense to make both the battery and the flash card (one of them, anyway) removable and apple did not. Therefore...due to that competitive design advantage...yeah, you could say that ;)

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 324490)

@sachin: by that logic, the n900 comes with a 10,000mah battery** ;)

** = optional 8 packs of spare batteries are sold separately.

But the advantage for me of removable memory is that i dont need to carry the stupid proprietary cable with you. Just pop out the card insert it into the computer and you can exchange data. So i always prefer removable memory.

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

@sachin007: well it has wifi and bluetooth and there are ways to leverage those effectively.

Ok, this has been talked about in a different thread. Let's not go back there.

Re: N900 vs Iphone.

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Originally Posted by ralphb (Post 324473)

Heheh, so now there's a new 64GB iPod Touch ... Same or better for the N900 please Nokia.

Heck, even my old N800 could do 64GB via 2 x 32GB SDHC.

The N900 has a Micro-SDHC slot, and 32GB micro-SDHC cards are coming "real soon now", so you'll have 64GB within the life of your N900 (when you add that to the 32GB built-in).

Roger.