Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

n900 is good and unique, but i if i was to buy a new phone now i would wait to see either for the n9 or buy a webOS phone, which seem to offer much more software then the n900 can even dream about, webOS IMO is a sucess where n900 has been a let down, webOS has similar values as those behind the nXX0 series, and you can even find tools like aircrack in the webOS, etc...

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

it's a phone. lifecycle measures in months, not years.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

I'm with hackfanatic, here. MeeGo sounds like it'll be worth waiting for. If you're itching very badly, my preference would be to go Android where the community is thriving with customizations and prolific coding is going on. The Maemo side of things has been like a North Dakota town out in the middle of nowhere: bitterly cold and boring, everybody complains about the potholes and nobody from the local gov't (Nokia) cares. :)

$349 is pretty dramatic, myess. I can also remember a time when a brand new Yugo was dramatically cheaper than the other new cars, too. Draw your own conclusions. :)

Don't be an idiot, Starscream. When we fly in under their early warning system with their own shuttle, the Autobots will be vanquished forever!

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

My conclusion: tiny PC, decent hardware, runs honest-to-god Linux, can also be used as phone, now at incredible low price.

I'm sold on it.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

Exactly correct,
and the n900 has a great community existing right now.

N9 Meego is still a year in the future for most markets,
(it will need approvals even more difficult to obtain
which is why it took almost a year to get to many markets)
and
n9 will not be cheap, nor will it come out the gate
without many driver issues and bugfixes.

You all know what Nokia does by its history
- some closed-source driver that raises a big stink
- some locked-in crippleware that cannot be removed
- some silly locale hack or other key internal communication
protocol/format that basic firmware bits will still be locked into
despite


N9 will still be a wonderful piece of kit,
but the first months of its history will have a lot of
wailing and gnashing of teeth.

You are not going to see the n9 on the shelf or
available except through some foreign ripoff website
for a very long time, and at prices that will be stellar.

n9 is not here now.
n9 will not be here tomorrow, next week, next month
and for many of the global markets until the later half of next year.
And when it arrives it will have almost no community support
until it has been released for a few months.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

And then I saw this little gem written by someone
who seems a bit confused about open source
but nailed it right here:

What this all means is we have the n900 right now,
and waiting for promises may take more time than you expect

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

The N900 exists now, and is at close to half it's original launch price. It's a known thing, with known support and limitations. Look over the forums, see what works and what doesn't. If you can live with the "limitations", go for it.

If you want to wait for the next new thing, and get the latest whats-it, you're always going to be waiting. New devices will be more expensive year to year, and will have new gizmos and hardware that will become "must have" items. And some things will inevitably turn out to be vaporware, that happens all the time.

The N900 does exactly what I want. I've been debating getting a second unit, both for testing, and because I'd like a backup just in case the one I have fails in some way. But then I owned an N6230 for 5 years before I got my N900 and used it as my primary phone for 99% of that time, because it did what I needed.

If you do decide to go for the N900, I'd say don't wait. If Nokia does end-of-life it soon, store stock (which is already low) will drop to 0 in no time flat. (You saw that with the N8XX.) Make your choice, and pull the trigger soon, whichever way you decide.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

i buyed mine because i didnt want to lose the oportunity of getting a phone with a level of openess that i dont know if there will be one out of this kind.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

ok thank you guys! I decided that I'm going to look at Android and Meego, while I will try to get a n900 before it discontinued.

N900 is ok for me,even if is incomplete and has limitations.

Is strange that no one advise me to get a iphone...lol

Thanks to your replies I know what to do now,this thread can be close.

Re: How many years (of life) of the n900 are left before get discontinued?
 

If you're after a secondhand one, try cex shops (www.webuy.com).

Brought mine (unlocked) in their maidstone branch, £260 less £108 for trading in an old camcorder and my n810.