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I used a Galaxy S for a little while, but I couldn't get used to how bad android was, and not having a physical keyboard - then I thought maybe they'd fix it with more hardware, allowing REAL multitasking, so i bought a DROID 3, but that has annoyed me to all end, so I bought another N900. N9 lacks a physical keyboard which i have grown far to used to (especially gaming on mobile devices hardware buttons is a godsend), despite my looking, an N950 has not been available to purchase for me.

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so guys N900 supports 32gb??? does it work fine???

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I will stick with the N900 for the foreseeable future.

The only phone I can really accept is an upgraded N900, with an update Maemo (well, some other, similar OS would be fine, but there is nothing practical on the horizon)

The N950 comes close, but it has the wrong kind of touch screen. Those things are too weird and sensitive, and need a special stylus (and I don't think it comes with one, or a slot for one). Hartman might be ok (still Maemo underneath, not "true" Meego), although really I am rather fond of Hildon.

But even things like Mer are off in rpm/qt land now, so I think the only way to get newer Maemo would be to become a good enough programmer, and do it myself. And no one with the necessary resources cares about the needed hardware.

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My USB broke so I sent it to Nokia expecting a N8 or E7 in return so I bought a Xperia Play.... And they gave me back a refurbished N900! Unpredictable Nokia. So unfortunately I'll be selling a very nice looking N900 on ebay ):

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I thought I would miss my Nokia N900 since getting my Samsung Galaxy S II, but to be honest I haven't.

My SGS2 is amazing and is doing everything my Nokia N900 use to do and more and it's doing it faster. I've also yet to drop it and the size is perfect for my hand and I have not had one failure yet, even though I am on my 5th ROM. It's an awesome device and I am so happy that I could go from one awesome device (N900) to another (SGS2). :-)

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Yes, I've had one in my n900 for almost a year (class 4, SanDisk black-friday special from 2010).


As for the poll: I had my N6230 for almost 5 years before moving to the N900. I suspect I'll have the N900 for at least as long, baring some hardware failure or some critical must-have hardware comes along. (eg GSM freq change or the like.) Between the Otterbox, and having filled off the pins on my charger & data cables in the first few weeks of owning it (when people started reporting USB issues), I figure I'm in pretty good shape hardware wise. :rolleyes:

I still keep an eye on where the mobil market is going, but haven't seen anything quite like the N900. Between the solid hardware, reasonable specs, and the awesome community here, I think it's going to be a sad day when the time comes to move.

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Curiously enough, I'm on the same route: I originally grew so enamoured of the N900 that I managed (thanks to a friend) to snag another one, NIB, without paying the tripled price (id est, <$400USD versus circa $900 USD). Originally, this was because I enjoyed and got so much use out of the phone I knew I'd be hating life when/if it were ever physically damaged, HW fail, whatever.

Now, I'm content to continue using the original, with the NIB one on ice; even purchased extra batteries + another extended Mugen battery (my third) to keep NIB, inasmuch as one can do that with Lith Ion batteries.

As a phone, it works as a phone...Which for me, is what I need/want out of a phone. As a handheld-device, it works great at that, as well, though honestly I feel it has drawbacks (which the N950 addresses....).

That said, anyone with a new-in-box N950 which they feel like selling Yours Truly for a pittance is free to contact me -- that would likely cause me to 'upgrade' to a (technically) different phone....


~JMB

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i had a run with a wave 2 the other day, it sucks, i wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but i do recommend android.......

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Has anyone had any extended play time with the Samsung Galaxy Note?
I am considering getting this as the hardware looks sufficiently upgraded and the large screen I am hoping would compensate for no HW keyboard. A friend also mentioned the new Motorola Razr today which I am just trying to find out about. Anyone played with that one also?

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I think the only phones an N900 enthusiast would consider are:
-Another N900
-N950
-Galaxy Note
-Galaxy Nexus

If you consider anything but those sounds like you've outgrown the niche and are more accustomed to a Appy-phones:
-iPhone 4 / 4S
-Nokia N9
-Droid 3 / RAZR
-SGSII / Xperia Play
-HTC's

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Well I did it. I actually ordered a galaxy note. My n900 is currently in repairland and I have really had the cold turkey shakes because I haven't had it. I plan to try and use both. I imagine there will be plenty of tasks that only the n900 can still accomplish, so I will still be needing it for a while yet. The note I am hoping should be better for a more up to date web experience as the n900 is (only just) beginning to show it's age on some web site with the lack of up to date flash etc. Will probably still take the n900 to work too and the note will get used out of work.

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If I may ask, in what way are the Note and the Nexus not Appy-phones? The Note does come with a stylus, but both are still running Android. Unless you give them a good rooting, you're still just playing with apps. I don't really see the difference with any other Android device...

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Fixed. :p

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Does email, texting, and instant messaging work with hwkb? if so then it's worth it. The n900 when it first came out had mainly portrait mode apps. Even still being able to email and text in stuff was better with the hwkb.

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YEs my thoughts exactly. I knew the n900 was amazing when i saw it. there just isnt anything out there that really trumps it right now. Even with all the advanced hardware. I dont see why its so difficult to improve upon. I dont understand it. I guess if they give you all you need in a phone with a reasonable life expectancy you wouldnt buy more phones. I think its a selling tactic. Give a lil, take a lil. They will keep comming back for specific features.

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I just bought my First N900.


I wanted a N950 initially but they're not on sale.

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welcome.... first thing i should have done with it is this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80762

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my next phone is SGS3 in 2012 with 4-core CPU

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Glad you asked.
The NOTE is quite different because the large size makes the virtual keyboard bearable and a hwkb a little redundant. Its large screen, abundant pixels, blazing performance and features (and the S Pen) make it more than a regular Android phone.

The Gnex is on that list because it, like the NOTE, is highly advanced (large screen, pixels, performance and features) though not as much. But what separates it from other Android phones is that it will get massive support. And just like the Nexus One and HD2, its probable to get a Ubuntu port and perhaps even a MeeGo/WebOS one too.

The others are not as unique or not as developer friendly, so they're more like traditional Android devices, so theyre moreso "Appy phones"... not saying its a bad thing they just don't fit in the niche as the N900.

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Oh, I quite agree that the Note's hardware is fabulous. (Although I would still like a hardware keyboard, pressing my fingers against glass to type was literally painful on my old iPhone. Maybe using the stylus to type would fix that, though...)

Well, here's where my question kinda pops up again. If lots of apps is what you want, any Android or iOS phone will give you that. You get massive amounts of "support" on those phones. After all, the developers are being paid plenty to feed you with hoards of tiny, cute, brightly colored little programs.

Yes, again, once you've rooted the thing. Just like all the other appy phones.

When you say "developer friendly", I get the feeling you really mean "power user friendly". Yeah, the Note has awesome hardware, but exactly how does that help the developer?

In pure terms of "making life easy for the developer", I don't think you can beat Apple. (Although I haven't tried writing code for Android yet.) I've played around with the iPhone (now iOS) SDK, you really can't get a friendlier, more supportive suite of development tools than what they give you.

But, of course, that's if your goal in life is to write little apps. With the N900, I'm running the same OS on my phone that I'm running on my desktop machines. I absolutely love being able to open a terminal and start editing code in Vim on the N900, in exactly the same way I do on my desktop machines. The freedom to use the machine as a normal Linux box, not just a glorified app launcher, is what sets the N900 apart from the appy phones.

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Amen brother!

Preach it like it is. Android is a meaningless stack of trivial crap that people can face blog about on their tweetspace. The N900 was the first step towards truly convergent device. NO OTHER OS does this, only linux can transcend the architectures.

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thinking the same thing here too. hopefully they can contain the battery life with that monster. now just to wait. i waited 6 months for my 900 so it should be easy to wait again. at least this time i like my phone i have currrently (N900)

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lol what? Quad core? Yeh, battery life is for fa**ots. Check out this game. It ran on a BBC micro, a computer with 4MHz CPU and 16KB of RAM. I cannot really explain how huge elite was (in terms of game space to explore) but trust me it was massive with literally hundreds of galaxies to explore. All of this crammed into 14K of space. Yes. 14K. That lolcat I just downloaded is 10 times bigger. The game was written in assembler in order to exploit the maximum potential from the hardware.

The point is, you can throw as much hardware as you like at a problem, however, in the end it is still a **** OS that runs trivial **** for banal *****s. You can shove android in the trash along with laserdisc and bubble memory.

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sunday my n900 was stolen... monday I got a new "old" one :)

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Have you comprimised yet?

I have. Lumia 920. No removeable batt. no Keyboard. no FM transmitter. Not as much fun or to multitask. No tmobile support (except the dev phone. I feel lucky to have gotten my hands on one) Not as configurable. No maemo community. So many nots... however, you better beleive microsoft and NOKIA BOTH will make sure this baby gets the support it needs to 1 keep nokia a float and 2 give MS a real stake in the mobile industry. Official support alone is almost worth it. There are many plus but i will miss my n900.

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convergence. MS and NOKIA with wp8 and windows 8.