Re: Extensive German review
 

Looking at their rating system, its totally reasonable. You have to admit that those reviews that were more in favor of the N900 praised its UI,.... and its UI... and multitasking... and the UI.

Chip does rate the UI, but only as part of the "ergonomics" category, which in turn makes only 25% of the overall outcome. The other 75% are calculated from hard facts.

Given that multitasking on the N900 is only a marketing thing (because all S60 phones can do it, so you really wonder why Nokia puts so much emphasis on it with Maemo now) and the quality of a UI is highly subjective, it's a valid and reasonable thing to do when you rate a product. Focus on what you can measure, what is objective, and let other factors only play a minor role.

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I simply cant take a magazine seriously that gives out a nice scoring with completely arbitrary categories..
But if you prefer a nice score that tells you which product is the better one....

Sorry, I really dont mean to be rude or anything and I dont think that other reviews and previews we have seen so far are much better.

Re: Extensive German review
 

Seems like the review is oriented to smartphones. From that perspective, how can anyone argue. Smartphone users expecting a high end smartphone will probably not be happy, but media and tech fans will be. Like it has been said already, some of these reviews are from the same perspective a lot of others will have- they assume the N900 is a high end smartphone. The N900 will be unfairly knocked in reviews and expectations as a result.

Re: Extensive German review
 

true, its not a smartphone yet for the software side! its more a uber small netbook with gsm module

Re: Extensive German review
 

I agree with most of you about this review. But chip.de is a very popular website in Germany at least for Joe Average and I wanted to show what the "public" thinks about the N900.

Most of us forum members will buy the N900 because it's opensource and its potential but we shouldn't ignore that for most users the N900 is not the right device (one step is missing!). In this context I think the review is quite fair.

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I appreciate folks here could care less, but besides the MMS and non portrait messaging, the killer is high end smartphoners expect to be able to use the device with one hand. At the moment, you can not safely access the phone function one handed.

On a positive, there will be quite a few good N900 deals on eBay by those same people ;)

Re: Extensive German review
 

Not to sound rude, but you do see the major difference of multitasking on a Symbian device (or any device on that matter) versus multitasking on Maemo 5, right? Show me a phone which can do multi-tasking in real time with over 20 apps open at the same time... none other then N900 can do that so effectively as far as i know, its same as in Windows 7 imo

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http://anidel.blogspot.com/2009/11/m...uter-n900.html

Seems like Battery life has been greatly improved with the latest firmware. I also read another review today that said they were getting 1 1/2 days with wifi/gps always on and 40-50 minutes taking a day etc. That aint bad

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"Akkuleistung: Nach gut drei Stunden Dauertelefonat, Dauer-Websurfen oder Spielen muss das Gerät wieder an die Steckdose - für ein Business-Handy dieses Kalibers einfach zu wenig."

They say that after 3 hours of constant calls, surfing, or gaming the phone has to be recharged, which is not very good for a business phone. Sounds a bit weird to me, especially compared to other reviews (gsmarena).

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seems there is a lot of discussion not only on how long the battery life is but also how much hours people get from the device.

which pretty sucks to me.

i mean if it is the case that MY battery lasts 5 hours and my neighbours his battery lasts 10 hours with the same usage. I mean, come on. that encourages brain-smashing.