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Re: N900 Thickness

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Originally Posted by bugelrex (Post 362214)

C'mon that stylus is pretty long.
I'm pretty sure they didn't design the phone and found so much empty space that they said.. lets stick the stylus in there!

Have your ever seen a battery shaped like a stylus? Once you do, come back here and absolutely require Nokia to expand N900 battery capacity.

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As i understand, droid doesn't have too much internal storage. Memory chips aren't that big, but aren't size-less either

Re: N900 Thickness

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Originally Posted by vzontini (Post 362197)

This leaves me wondering why the N900 is so thick.

more to love baby... :cool:

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well I guess it leaves us all wondering really... I love the N900 already and I'm sold on ( literally since I'm among 100's who've preorderd ) but I do see some things I like about the Droid and a few that leave me.. well a bit jealous as far as what was able to be pulled off with that device and not with the N900 like size and to give a more in depth explanation: screen size, keyboard, and battery... and if i could trade all three of those to get at leat one thing the droid has going for it would be that ole release date that is coming up and I'm sure will be sold... now thats hot! lol but i would mind the screen size or battery "as much" if we could some how mange to get a keyboard of that size on our device... I'm sure the one that is on it works well enough but those extra physical keys would be nice

Re: N900 Thickness

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Originally Posted by vzontini (Post 362197)

The cellphone news has been jumping on the new Motorola Droid Android 2.0 phone. At 60.0mm x 115.8mm x 13.7mm and 169g it packs a 3.7" WVGA capacitive screen and 1400mAh battery. The rest of the specs are comparable to the N900 as well.

The N900 is 59.8mm x 110.9mm × 18.0mm (19.55 at thickest) and 181g with a 3.5" WVGA screen and 1320mAh battery.

13.7mm thick vs 19.55 is a big difference.

At first I thought the slider design of the N900 was the reason for the extra thickness but that isn't the case.

This leaves me wondering why the N900 is so thick.

1mm for the stereo speakers
1mm for the kick stand
1mm for the camera cover
1mm for the better quality lens
1mm cause its not as long or wide
1mm for more keyboard travel
1mm for stylus (and yes I want one of those)
1mm for the fm transmitter and receiver
1mm for the integrated 32GB

oh and 2mm for the tv out :D

Mike C

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I would have definitely liked bp4l battery as well since I already have quite a few of them but oh well.

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What's the deal with a tinny Droid bundeled with a huge contract on one special carrier?
It could be as thin as a piece of paper... won't buy it because I felt for the iPhone and it's expensive contracts. So no good at all..

Re: N900 Thickness

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Originally Posted by mikec (Post 362259)

-The kickstand is part of a separate part that buldges out around the camera, so it's not part of the 18mm thickness.
-Ditto for camera cover
-Ditto for at least some of the lens and camera module (and do we really know that the Nokia's module is bigger than the one in the Droid?).

-The N900 and Droid are the same width (59.8 mm vs 60 mm). Also, due to it's thinness, the Droid has considerably less volume than the N900 (about 95cc vs 113cc). The droid only gains an extra 4cc from it's additional length. In fact, it would have to be another 2cm longer to have the same volume as the N900, if it's width and depth did not change. So the Droid is really not somehow making up for in length what it's losing in thinness.

-Keyboard travel is probably right. It really sounds from reviews like Motorola skimped on the keyboard. Looks nice, is very crappy to actually use.

-The fm transmitter and receiver I think are part of the chip that also includes bluetooth and maybe some other things. Does it really add that much space in and of itself? I don't know.

-The T.V. out jack is the same as the headset jack and the Droid also has a 3.5mm jack, so is there really a difference there?

I'm not saying that the N900 isn't thicker, because Nokia has packed more into it than the Droid. But I'm not sure those reasons really add up. Also the N97-mini has almost all the same features as the N900, but is almost as thin as the Droid (14.2 vs 13.7mm). And the N97 has in fact, I think, all the same features as the N900 (except 8 vs. 32Gb memroy, but with a bigger battery) and is still 2mm thinner and has 20% less volume. Does the stylus and the extra memory really account for 20% of the N900's volume?

I don't know maybe Maemo is thicker.

But seriously, perhaps the N900 just isn't Nokia's best engineering effort. As I said above, I read somewhere (can't remember where) that it was really conceived orginally as more of a developers platform than a consumer device.

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I think he said it was 19.5mm at its thickest.

My sarcastic point is that its an apples to oranges comparison. If thickness is an issue you will get the droid. If you need decent photos and memory etc, you know what to do.

Mike C

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If you'll look at the droid's abomination called "keyboard" you'll understand everything. Nokia was smart enough to make keyboard comfortable instead of trading it for some marketing bs. Thanks for that.