Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

Maybe, maybe not, but it's never the same thing, a small difference for one person is a showstopper for another (plus, we don't know just how old the prototype is). The insult to injury is showing the phone in the protection cover (how come he never reviews an iPhone or a Samsung product in a protection cover ?) which of course makes it look fatter (the thing that the N9 actually looks decent even with the thing on, is a testimony to some mighty attentive engineering, though).

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

What I read in this review isn't too far away from my own impressions.

Diferences:

I'm more disappointed with the camera than Eldar seems to be.

Eldar has a strange view on multitasking, claiming it's a good thing if the OS takes control away from the user and decides on its own when to close an application. For a smartphones, that's be unacceptable. Still, I think I remember having read somewhere that Harmattan does have a mechanism to suspend or shut down applications in the background, so I'm not really sure if Eldar is right.

The screen on my device is really disappointing, especially when reading text. Eldar, as other have pointed out, may not have a real production unit, so maybe he doesn't see these issues.

The USB cover on the top looks worse than it is. I don't know what you'd have to do to brake it under normal conditions.

The note about the faulty LED (not showing charging/fully charged) is correct, same on my device.

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

The camera has been a let down. Hype built around the speed of the camera and the results got me very excited as I take photos every chance I get. Recently i've noticed delay in the app launching which causes me to double/triple tap.

Also have issues with the colours. Auto fix behaves oddly. Sensor doesnt like bright lights so you get a white cloud where there are bright spots in a scene, medium to low (not dark) light is very very grainy.

Have a long list of complaints but will wait to see if they are fixed or I find work arounds.

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

The camera is the biggest let down of the N9, the rest I have not seen or dealt with and I've heavily modded my N9...

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

Useful to know - thanks. I think I will keep reading stuff before taking the plunge. NewEgg.com are selling the blue N9 for $599 now, so it's more tempting than ever, but still a little too pricey if there are still problems that haven't been sorted out by PR1.1. Maybe PR1.2 will address the camera issues and LED omissions, but I don't mind waiting around and gathering more info before swiping that credit card. HA! See what I did there...? :)

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

You might need to hurry up with that. There's only 92k made after all. ;)

It's too bad what Eldar has become. MR was the best review site before 2008, now GSMarena is the only place i will read reviews. For other details or special interest i'm clever enough to figure out myself and make my own opinion. :)

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

I disagree on the camera part. I've found it to be excellent at both indoor and outdoor photos. It is the first phone I've had that I would consider to be a suitable replacement for my few years old Nikon Coolpix 8MP camera.

An issue I would take with Eldar's review is that he compares the design to an iPod, but the iPod is not a phone. He writes that the N9's design is nothing new to the industry, yet I am not aware of any other phones that have no buttons on the front and have the curved glass surface. I didn't think I would care too much about those features before I got my N9, but I must say I've gotten to like them so much that I will be looking for them in my next phone.

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

Remember this is the guy that called the camera of the N8 "average", when it still is the undisputed king of phone cameras.

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

He has lost all credibility in my eyes. I won't even look at this "review." Poo pooing the design is the most obvious show of bias.
What happened to all his "OMGZ they can't make an easy language switcher on the keyboard."
I don't know..... I haven't read the review and don't want to.
Him and guber^ should get a room

Re: Eldar's N9 review pt1 ... honest?
 

N9 has a bigger screen, as evident in the picture. Also theres the lack of front facing camera, which we also see in the picture. Not sure if we see the charging LED, and Im not sure if both phones have one.

Thats just in the picture. Other than that theres 1 less HW key on the N9 from the Lumia 800 and different LED flash placement.

You can with the latest FW.

Not that Ive found, at least. But its nothing specifically mentioned here, so hard to argue.

Not true. At least not true in my pockets, dont know what kind of stuff he has going on though.

It does. IIRC its even in the phones manual.

I disagree. If you open a shitton of programs on your computer, thats basically the same thing isnt it? I close stuff I dont use, and its easier to close than on android/symbian/ios: swipe down.