Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

freaky¿?

with an n900 in your hands you will see what a good OS ( and developpers ) is capable in a 2 year old hardware.

do it!

regards

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

My two cents on this. I bought an N900, absolutely loved it, but went to it from a G1 and found myself really, really missing Android. Fast forward a couple years and I still love my Nexus One, but really miss having the N900 to play with. So I'm looking into getting another one (ordered a Chinese one on ebay *crosses fingers*.)

So, can't be that damn weird. It's a great and very unique phone.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I just picked up my second on Ebay today. what should I have paid for my n900? Please tell me what i want to hear.

Also, the only reason I wanted a new one is because the internal memory was corrupted on the first and I could not fix it. I would gladly pay to have it repaired as a backup. Any suggestions?

Joe

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOKIA-N900...5&cmd=ViewItem


just received very happy good price fast postage
DNami

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Cant you get a new one from sears (if youre in the states) ?

These are new and legit right ?:)

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...1&blockType=G1

Might be a bit expensive comparing to other sales.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

usd250-300.

Also, what do you mean the internal memory was corrupted? Can't be fixed by a reflash?
If so, the eMMC's probably loose. Unless you reball the chip, there's no getting it back on.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

The N900 is a better value proposition now (150 euro Ebay) than when it was new.

(edit, ultra-low power, transflective 800x480 display readable in DIRECT sunlight? YOU can wait for pixelqi. *I* have n900)

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I paid €175,- for a second hand in near mint condition, November last year.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I have just paid £146 delivered made in Finland one from hongkong brand new.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

All n900's except for the dev versions were made in Korea, straight from my colleagues' mouths at Nokia.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

ok still i do miss my old n900 i have a unicorn n9 aswell want it to have some good company.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I do agree its getting a bit harder to find. i can't find new ones in the stores either. I usually find some for sale online in the 300-400 range (in usd)
anyone want to swap with their iphone4 for an n900? :P

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I wouldn't get it. The USB port will fall out. Fell out on 2 of mine

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I've got my old N900 for sale right now.

Normally the only voice guided GPS nav program for Maemo5, Sygic Mobile Maps, is a paid commercial app (with flaky availability).

But I've got that pre-installed on this N900. Just FYI.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82969

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

For anyone that is interested here is one on sale now. quite cheep too.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nokia-N-Seri...item2a2819b8be

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I ordered 2 units from: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Nokia-N9...-/290783564186
- 1july'12 (USD 190) and 1 Sept'12 (USD 150, with lots of haggling, but being Dutch :D, No problems - the units state to be fabricated in Finland, my 1st unit, came from Turkey, which died in July12 after 33months of faithfull duty, because of the dreaded Micro-USB problem, was repaired in UK (I am in Holland) came back, worked a week and then died permanently of the USB problem.
Meanwhile the 2 units are updated to 21.2011.38-1Tmaemo6 and run on a daily basis with no other than brilliant performance with the Power Kernel, than experienced on my defunct no 1 original unit.

To bypass the Micro-usb problems I am using 3 sets of BL-5J -batteries, swopping them daily each time my battery indicator goes from green to red. Bought the simple loader for the BL-5J in China for some USD 10 all-in, sent by Post.
In this manner I hardly use the USB cable, only to access my docs, back-ups, etc.

I think these are not refurbished units, but probably units built from spareparts readily available from umpteen internet suppliers, in China.
Most probably from the very factories that supply Nokia as well.
Just my 2 cents of experience...

The supplier Cellphoneforever is most communicative and replies to mails send to them, unlike the great number of Ebay scum suppliers!
Also check their Ebay record, which they do everything for to maintain at the amazing high level.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

What about the repositories now?

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Temporary mirrors are present and the repos are down because of traffic and firewall issues... Its not down because they are disappearing :)

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Keyword: temporary

It'll never be "official" again in the future, or sanctioned and continually developed and updated by Nokia. That's a blessing and a curse in itself.

It tethers the new purchase to this forum, wherein there's no guarantee this place will be here in the near future since it's now privately funded. And it also means no further updates unless somebody takes the initiative and stuff like Skype, an integral part of the N900 experience, might have some problems in the very near future if Microsoft continues down the path they're going to replace their Live messaging with Skype and integrating the two logins. To my knowledge, that's not been implemented on the N900.

I bring these things up not for the savvy users, most of us should be fine. But with the prices dropping on the N900, I shudder to think that a nice N900 will fall into the hands of somebody that thinks it'll be the messaging Mecca of all smartphones and everything should "just work" and they'll have access to every app that their iPhone and Android owning peers have access to.

So informing buyers should be the first case. It's not all peaches and perfect right now around the N900 nor this forum/repositories. But it's not all bad either.

That's my take. Educating people should be the first prerogative of this place and the members.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I shudder to think anyone would expect a 3+ year old device to do any of that, frankly. Even original iPhones can't do everything they did before, with the changes that have happened and the lack of updates for the original model(s). Anyone expecting ANY device to continue to work with and support dynamically changing systems years later is likely in for a rude shock.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Hmm,
Take a look at http://www.aliexpress.com/item/N900-...572687594.html - this is direct from the production consortiums in China. Key in the IMEI on the Nokia site, and should not a N900 crop up, then you can return it, the site guarantees that you get what you pay for. The seller is not paid before you accept this, which is the reason for prompt delivery. I buy other 5-6 year old replacement equipment from the same consortiums, and if they say it has been manufacturered for Nokia, that is the case. This is much safer than Ebay.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Then you're in for a rude awakening. You know how all of the iPhones got 3 major iterations of each and every iOS update? That means that folks with 2-3 year old machines think that their phone, while rather capable, should be able to do all of the stuff that the newer iterations can/should do.

It happens a lot more than you'd think.

Seriously, earlier today a person had the original 4gb iPhone, was not happy that it didn't get iOS 6. That phone is now 6 years old. Still worked though, looked great actually. But it's still almost 6 years old.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

You, I know, everybody knows that iOS for older iPhone have limited capabilities. Only the more recent iPhones run last iOS at full. And last iOS on old iPhones is slow.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

They don't care usually. As long as they have Angry Birds (Space, Seasons, Star Wars, et al).

Slow? They're still supported and updated. That's leagues better than the N900 and N9. Both were plopped out like a freshly laid out ****, left to harden and be flung about by the members of TMO.

Meh. I sometimes really am amazed at how disconnected some people within this community are to the rest of the world of self-entitled folks that suspect they should get 3 iterations of the OS and each and every update for the stuff they like.

In simpler terms, you people here are happy for a hardware keyboard and a terminal. That's not even on the radar of the rest of the folks on this planet.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

after damaging mine i have ordered another one for $180.. N900 is the best!!

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I love it as well (typing this from my N900) but ,truth be told, it has really started to show its age.. and that's totally cool and understandable. It's 4 year old tech!

I really can't see another worthy device. xcept a N4 here, a RAZR maxx there, or a GN, xperia P (love alluminum), Atrix ..maybe

but they all miss qwerty and maemo : )

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

I know some "heavy users" of iPhones (3, 3GS) who refused to upgrade last year for very known problems of worse performance and more limited jail-break due to new iOS versions.

Re: Buying an N900 in 2012
 

Disable all of the search items via System Preferences. It helps a ton. Been there, done that.

But that's neither here nor there. And I'm not sure you're ignoring the very obvious or it's just not that important - it's really not important to be honest. But to those customers, heavy users or not, they didn't have to buy a new phone from a 3GS (I know one in my inner-circle as well) because they were supported for that damn long. Was it slower? Yes. Was it the exact same? No. But was it a version they didn't have from the day they bought the phone? Indeed.

Now with that out of the way, my point about non-savvy users purchasing the best geek phone/pocket computer/plastic piece of masturbation that's been released in the last 5 years and then they find out that they have to learn Linux commands, use temporary repositories and have to actually invest time into research to make it hum at 1.1ghz with a bigger rootfs and better transitions only by reading this site. And only this site has collected that data in a semi-searchable manner.

Yeah. Real ****ing convenient.

At times I get why the folks with the iPhone 3GS don't update their phone. They just have to keep up with iTunes which magically updates them and the companies don't always immediately ignore them upon a dot upgrade or the like. Not always, but it's more the case than not.

Nokia cannot say that about any Maemo device. Is the N900 worth it in 2013? Only if you're a geek with enough time to read this entire message or have figured out that the search on this site is pure crap and you used Google with precise terms and inurl: or site: and found this warning.

The N900 is for geeks. Always has been. Always will be. And that increases more each passing day.

The update on the iPhone 3GS is indeed slow as it went along. But they got it. Enjoy the temporary repositories. I'd rather not jump through any more hoops.