Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

Is that a good friend of yours?
Prepare to engage in continuous mortal battles with him over who's "right" *G*

Btw, congrats on your purchase!

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

How to win N900 vs A. N. Other phone arguments 101:

1. The N900 is not a phone, it's a pocket computer.

;)

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

Yea he is a good friend of mimes, however he is a bit biased towards it :P I would have went for an iphone however he paid £300 for the phone alone plus 24month contract at £30 per month.

That is going to be my main argument :D

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

Cool! I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine. :)

On iPhone vs. n900: I've had a 1st generation iPhone for four years. The thing is downright beautiful, as well as being built strong as a tank. Honestly, I think today's iPhone still outclasses all the competition in sheer design brilliance; the guys at Apple just know how to create a piece of hardware that looks good and does its job well. Heck, mine still looks good just sitting there on my desk.

But, for me, that's really the problem with the iPhone; all I really ever did with it is look at it as it sat there on my desk. Yeah, it's got all those amazing cool little apps; but most of the time, I just have better things to do than play around with cool little apps. In the month or so I've had my n900, the thing has rarely been out of my hands -- I'm browsing web pages that are just a pain to use on an iPhone, answering e-mail with a real keyboard (trying to hit virtual keys on a hard glass screen gets to be literally painful), even composing files using Vim (my favorite text editor!). I can easily pull up an xterm and examine the processes running on the machine, or log into one of my desktop machines and perform administrative or other tasks on them. The full power of Linux is just sitting there in my hands, wherever I go...

To me, an iPhone (or, honestly, an Android phone) is a device you buy to play around with or show off. The n900 is a device you can use to get actual work done. That makes all the difference. :)

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

Thanks for the help mate, I can't wait to get it :D

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

Play still haven't shipped the phone so I get sometime time to ask you about what apps should I install :D

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

I was going to open a new topic but this one seems to be the place to ask my questions.

I own and use a N800 since about 3 years now, and I use it every single day, and enjoy it. But I hate to write on the screen of N800. It just sucks,

I have used my N800 mostly for private and business occasions. Now I am thinking of getting a mobile computer for business purposes, but my main needs must be satisfied to an extent by the phone. Price is not the main issue.

I need the following applications for business:

dedicated ftp application,
video player
power point presentation wiever
qwerty keyboard
excell viewer
pdf viewer
if possible outlook syncronisation of emails, possibility to connect to MS exchange server
if possible push email
if possible an application to view 3D data, something like "transmagic" that runs on MS machines.
**satnav

**I am using maemo mapper on my N800 since long time with great satisfaction. Due to my work, I need to visit unknown cities and also go to very remote parts of the land, away from towns. I use google maps, sat images, VE street or sat, Yahoo street or whatever I can find to illuminate my target area in maemo mapper. I have covered so far thousands of kilometers and the application runs very stable for me using an external sat receiver, coupled with bluetooth. If N900 can not do that much, I can still keep my N800 for satnav as long as N900 can support N800 for internet access over 3G network on one side and BT on the N900-N800 side.

My new device must be below 500 grams and must be able to fit to my pocket or at least to my not so large purse. By the way, I carry a business notebook in my car for desktop computing needs but I also need a phone-computer that can release me to carry the notebook to fairs, factory visits, customer presentations and such occasions. Actually, my N800 was able to do much of that so far, the only missing parts for me were typing problems and wifi but no 3G to access the internet.

So considering all my needs, which ones are possible which ones are not with n900 please?

It is interesting to admit that, instead of getting a new N900, I could buy an USB or BT type tiny keyboard, and a cheap mobile phone that is 3G and BT DUN capable to tether to my N800 and then I would probably use N800 another 3-5 years.

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

I've got the SDK installed in a chroot on mine, and have actually used it to build some Linux apps. Try that on an iPhone.

My theory is that if it has gcc and make, then it is a computer :D

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

That's part of why I got the N900 from Nokia direct. Paying for the 3G plan seemed excessive to me, especially when 80% of the time I'm in an area where there's wifi. (When I'm not 2.5G is just fine...)

There are a few good pages on apps to start off with. Do a quick search and you'll find quite a few. There are also threads on how to solve common problems (including ones that may just look like device limitations at first, like MMS).

Hope you enjoy your new N900 when it arrives! :)

Re: Thinking of buying an N900
 

iphone is for kids, n900 is for men (or is it geeks? :D)