Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

Actually Exchange support IS pretty crappy since it doesn't even work with my vanilla Exchange 2007 setup.

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

We'll that is sure one long invisible A/V cable connected to the N900 don't you think.

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

The first video I saw about the n900 was late august , the one with the two finnish maemo fellows (one had a imac) , and it was pretty impressive , way before adds.

I'm dying to see the next iphone adds : "with the new iphone 4G , you can now do two things at a time"

rofl !!!

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I'm a huge Nokia fan, and the N900 is awesome, but some of you guys need to learn to take a little criticism without flipping your lids. RealityCheck makes some valid points, and shouldn't be attacked just for raising some questions on this board.

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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil??

It's like 1984--their is no N900, their is only iPhone.

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Which valid points would those be?

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No reality distortion field.

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Wireless data transmission...you know that 21st century technology that allows you to transmit data wirelessly. Just because we see video data being received wirelessly doesn't mean we can't transmit it--considering the guy wrote the app specifically to do this. Maybe if you actually do more research on this, you'll actually see what the guy did.

It's funny how I gave you all those links, proving you're wrong on the N900, yet you still can't face the fact that you're wrong. Instead you choose the one link that isn't fully explained in the video of 'how does it do it' so automatically you choose it as a basing point to strengthen your statement, even though you have already been proved overwhelmingly wrong by pretty much everyone counter-posting.


In response to that I'll just quote JayOnThaBeat

Especially what the person has no validity at all. Also you say he makes valid points, so why aren't you posting those valid points that you believe he's correct on?

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You are almost completely wrong except for this:

The advertising shows an N900 being built with glowing stuff that looks like pixie dust. I am (almost) 100% sure that there is no pixie dust in the N900.

I'm glad you haven't ordered an N900 yet. There's a lot of excited people waiting for theirs to come, and you would be wasting a perfectly good spot in the queue. ;)

(posted from my awesome, fast, smooth-scrolling, totally multitasking N900)

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I don't understand, technically I don't think the Cortex A8 is SMP or HT in any sense. So yes it is Task Switching in a sense. Actually its called time sharing I believe. I am pretty sure IM, Web Pages etc ain't IDLE either. They would be doing data transfers in the background like html refresh, IM status updates etc.

Also please give more information like video, firmware versions, installed additional software, running processes.

Thank you.

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when i saw the title of this post i actually thought it was someone with a retail unit that has been using it for a few days and got disappointed....*sighs*

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RobertHall: Going to be hard to find someone who actually has an N900 talking the way RealityCheck does... :)

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At the risk of sounding like a girl, it's not what Realitycheck said, but how he presented it. I think we'd have had a potentially fruitful conversation about the N900 potentially not living up to some of the expectations of potential customers, whether these expectations are warranted or not is another issue, if the issues had been presented a little differently.

The biggest issue that I see is the potential that the actual ads are promising more than the device can deliver. I haven't seen any but I'll make some attempts to find them on some site accessible from China and check them out. If this is the case then that could pose a big problem, both for Nokia and for the people at this forum who'll be forever dealing with new threads regarding the devices failure to meet expectations.

If you notice a lot of iPhone/iPod commercials now don't even show any capabilities, they just have them twirling neatly across the screen looking nice. A feature that I must say tey do fulfill admirably.

Generally though I think this issue does warrant some discussion as it could affect everyone at the forum. But next time you post take some advice from Carla (the character on scrubs) and "let your crazy out in small portions" otherwise you might get reactions that are far from the type of constructive responses that I assume you wanted (by this I don't mean to say that your ideas are crazy, I just like the quote).

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

ahem, the n900 is good, its damned good infact, but its not sending video over.

the onedotzero identity is a 2 part application.
the n900 portion takes user input and displays a slick ui to the user there and when the user selects an area the interactions change and allow the user to shake and tilt the device etc.
the user input and sensor data is transmitted over the wifi.

the massive heavyweight computers which are connected to the projectors take this input and produce the 3d ribbons.

theres a lot that the n900 could do itself (similar effects could easily be achieved at n900 resolution using the powervr, or just look at the fluid motion on liqflow but in this specific instance its not, the identity was rendered at some ungodly resolution and presented on a massive display using 6 HD projectors.

you watch the video yourself ;)


disclaimer, i am the author of the onedotzero n900 controller.

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after reading your post I am for sure apple has trolls on a payroll.

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Thanks for clearing this up. I to was wondering myself exactly how it was done, and now you've explained it. Thanks. I've watched that video at least 20 times because I keep falling in love with it.

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I was fool enough to buy an iPhone 3GS (or a ShitePhone as I called it once I used it),,,,it was so inept, I can't explain it...it had so many very very basic features missing that Nokia had been implementing for many many years in even their basic models!

Further, about the multitasking - ShitePhone nor Apple or its users have any clue of what it is!!! I read somewhere that said people with a ShitePHone have a very low IQ (numpties!), I now understand that they are very true....I'm glad I got rid of mine as a numpty bought it off me.. i didn't even lose any money on it as the numpty paid me a good price!!

Bring on the N900 - kick some *** and chew bubblegum!!!

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

I just want to clarify: there are some things about the N900 that I'm disappointed with. I'd even go as far as to say that I'm quite disappointed with them.

However, the overall experience of the N900 is one of awesomeness, so you probably won't see real owners posting "Disappointed" threads very often.

It might happen. But it will be from people who bought the N900 expecting something completely different, or people who have a very narrow idea of what they want to do with their mobile device, or people who want/need specific non-supported features.

If you have read the articles and seen lots of the videos and you really want to get the N900, then don't worry, you'll be happy with the N900.

But I know. If you don't have it yet, the waiting just makes you kind of crazy.

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Technically it is, but by the standard of multitasking we've used for 20 years now, it multitasks. Even multi-core computers multitask, since there are almost always more than even 8 processes needing to run at any given time.

Multitasking is what we expect high speed CPUs to do. (switch back and forth very rapidly between running processes)

Multiprocessing is what you get when you have multiple cores.

Even the iPhone multitasks, although that capability isn't exposed to the user outside of a few apps that keep at least part of themselves alive (exchange, the phone, the music player) even when they are in the background.

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You scream like a girl :D

You need to use the iGirl - no girly cover for the n900 I am afraid. Grow up.

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Guys, there's no need to get all defensive.

The OP, by his own admission, has had very limited contact with a real device. His opinion is largely based on suppositions. Read that, and simply move on. There are threads around here containing real comments - good and bad - from people who have now been playing with production models for a few days. Those are the opinions to consider.

We need to get past 'n900 is God' to 'n900 is a damned good phone but it has weaknesses'. Like the day you realised that hot date you fell in love with snores and leaves the lid off the toothpaste.

There's no need to make a huge noise at this poster. He has simply made the mistake of posting a rather uninformed opinion on a bulletin board. Is that such a rare thing? ;)

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Reading it makes me said. It sounds like the retail version is either worse than the pre-production-model or something is wrong with that person. Sentences like "the software is buggy" make me ask myself: Why didn't I see buggy software( any bug at all ) in all those youtube videos. The worst I've seen was MicroB crashing, watching over 200 videos probably.
I just hope, that it isn't true. It is scary how people give back their copies of the device after 14 days, when everyone wants one.
I refuse to believe that. Prices on ebay go up to $1000, why would they give back their devices?
I'm hoping that he is just one of the apple fan boys & everythings alright.
If you have a retail copy, please tell me there are no such things like "non-scrollable applications in the menu after installing something". :(

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How can it be that you are disappointed about a device that was presented as preproduction model? And how can you be disappointed about the DEVICE when the SHIPPING delayes? Nokia delayed because of incomplete not perfect software, and since 10th november they're ready to go.

Post again if you tried one with final software...

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Fixed it for ya

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they are both retail.

42-11 is the Global release.
42-11.002 is the USA variant
42-11.003 is for Middle East and North Africa

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

Wait... the N900 outputs SD... and not ED or HDTV right?

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yup, no HD with composite possible. You can only adapt to scart, which does no better results.
If you want to output HD from a semi-mobile device, there's still the Nokia Booklet 3G with HDMI output.

edit:
here ya go:
SDTV: 480i (NTSC uses an analog system of 486i split into two interlaced fields of 243 lines)
SDTV: 576i (PAL, 720×576 split into two interlaced fields of 288 lines)

source: wikipedia

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

All I can say is that N900 exceeded my expectations when I got it. Unlike the original poster who doesn't even have the phone.

It is so good I even dumped my iPod touch to a bottom drawer that I originally had no intention of obsoleting, but I did. After a day.

The browser is divine. Performance flawless. YouTube, just like on desktop. Perfect.

My impressions can be found starting here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34678&page=21

And unlike the crippled Apple offerings, this one actually multitasks. And does it well.

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SD obviously since it is a composite video output.

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I've been reading http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...3&page=3&pp=15 and it worry's me some. I just hope he got a bad device and the same thing isn't happening like it did with the E90 when it first came out ( buggy as **** and not nearly completed OS or even hardware for that matter )

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I've had my N900 since Friday evening and I can honestly say that this guy is full of crap. He sounds like a loudmouth high school kid looking for attention. He doesn't even own the device and complains about it? Buggy software? WTH!?! Can't feel the haptic feedback!?! I get so angry about this. This person has no idea what they are talking about!!!! With every point he tries to make he is making more of a fool of himself.

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So you didn't have any problems with scrolling disabled or freezes or anything similiar? :)

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Eight Pages of feeding.

Troll ought to be fed now.

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No freezes and scrolling works just fine.

Of course who knows what the long-term experience is, I couldn't possibly say after two days, but so far very impressed with how the menus and main applications work and interact.

I do acknowledge, like everyone here I'm sure who understand the phones position as a sort of early adopter/tech-head/developer "preview model" (albeit a production one), N900 needs more work on the software (missing features like MMS, rSAP, old Maps, vertical mode support etc.), but overall it is very promising. The browser and user-interface are very nice.

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Reality Check you need a reality check. Am I really supposed to take your opinion ( "I have held one! In my hands and everything!" ) over that of people who actually have owned or thoroughly tested the device.

Youre either bored, a paid-troller or just jealous.

And you've exposed yourself as irrelevant and stupid. Shush now.

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You should read again, because he does own the device, that's why he's complaining of all the problems. Their are also three other people besides him who also have the device that have responded to the OP that they too are having the same issues. I hope when my baby get's here I don't have these same issues. It's illogical to think that all the units will be 'perfect' but having so many issues is questionable.



**On another note, someone mentioned a trick for bookmarks for swiping from right to left....what's he talking about?

Re: Disappointed with N900 - Reality Check!
 

You have a "friend" that has a pre-production N900? How convenient..

I also have a "friend" that has pre-production N910 and I'm disappointed that it doesn't shoot rainbows out of the camera at the press of a button.

:rolleyes:

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No, I keep my N900 warm in my pocket so no freezes here :p

http://i48.tinypic.com/5eehz7.jpg

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spinnukur:

I think we were talking of the original poster of this thread who didn't have the N900?

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The person who said "buggy software", apparently was the one on the other forums and he claims to own a device.