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Exceeds my expectation. Its like a mini computer. bbc live playing in background as I type. Best in the game in my opinion. oops man utd just scored - Rooney arghhh
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Still great device, but:
Battery life: Based on just four days of use, the N900 lasts less than the Droid by about three hours. Both devices had all radios on, but I actually used the Droid 3G and it has a 9% bigger display. Droid has a 60mah bigger battery, but should not equate to three hours more life. I do not leave open apps on the N900. I turned off the N900 3G today, since no 3G from Tmo here, but I had to increase my wifi to the medium selection due to inconsistent signal. Wifi: In spite of showing full bars, the wifi connection resulted in videos always stopping dead at about 30 seconds in- in the same room as the router. Changing to medium power settings fixed this, so I guess the "full bars" have nothing to do with this. FM radio and transmitter: Receiver is weaker than the N-gage Transmitter appears to only be usable if adjacent to the receiver. |
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To the guys with battery issues: What widgets do you have on the desktop? They seem to be battery drainers. Last night my phone survived just as well as the night I described in the battery issues thread except I removed the facebook widget and left transmission running and downloaded an 800mb avi.
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How can ANYONE say they havent had any software problems??? The N900 is RIDDLED with software bugs. Typical Nokia.
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I've had the N900 for 2 days now, and I have to say I like the potential of the device, but do not think it's ready for the masses. I've had numerous problems with it, and am going to try to reflash the firmware to see if that helps, if not, I will be selling it in the next few days.
Problems: Constant rebooting--stopped counting at 20 reboots over the past 2 days. Doesn't seem related to any specific program or task, although most frequently happens when opening or closing the keyboard. Will constantly drop connection with my wifi network and unable to connect to internet, when every other wifi device maintains connection and continues to access internet. This has happened on both work and home networks, which have different routers, so it's not a specific brand of router problem. Once it has dropped the wifi connection, the only way to fix it is to go into the settings, delete the wifi network, and set it up as a new connection again. email/exchange client is slow and almost unusable. Like mentioned above, I just use Gmail in the browser instead of the email client. It's much faster this way. Random cpu loads near 100%. Again, doesn't seem to be program specific, and can even happen with just the browser running, but cpu load will almost max out randomly, and slow the device to a crawl until the load drops. Overall, I do like what was attempted with this device, and I think/hope most of this can be fixed with software/firmware updates, but this device doesn't seem to be on par with the software quality I see from my iPhone 3GS or my Motorola Droid. All 3 of these devices have essentially the exact same hardware (cpu & gpu), but the Maemo platform seems SO much slower than iPhone OS and Android 2.0, and the other 2 devices, in my experience, run circles around the n900 and are worlds faster in things like email, browser speed, switching between programs, and running multiple programs simultaneously than the Maemo platform right now. My iPhone is jailbroken by the way, so I am able to see the true multi-tasking capability of this hardware setup, and it's able to do it flawlessly, without too big of an impact on battery life. I don't understand why the same basic hardware in my n900 seems so taxed by mulitple programs, unless it's just very inefficiently code in the software. I would rate the 3 devices containing the same hardware as follows: iPhone 3GS--best overall smartphone for the masses (even for the "power-users" once jailbroken), n900--lots of potential, but right now, just a enthusiasts/hackers "toy/experiment", Droid---best compromise between these 2. Has good usability, but is also fairly "open" out of the box and not locked down. (good for those put off by having to jailbreak their device). Edit: Forgot to add battery info. Battery has been a big disappointment so far. Most of my Nokia battery experience has great, as they always seem to somehow maximize battery efficiency. But out of the 3 devices I listed, the n900 and iPhone 3GS essentially tie for the worst battery life. In my experience, the Droid's battery is, so far, amazing compared to my 3GS, it can last a full day with heavy usage and still have charge the next morning on the nights I've forgotten to recharge it. My iPhone and n900 cannot make it a full day with moderate usage without needing to be charged. |
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The battery issue can't be answered easily, as that depends entirely on how much and what for you use it. Third party applications and especially widgets/plugins might cause issues. With frequent use, a couple of hours sounds about right. In standby, six hours would be completely wrong. But everything in-between is a sliding scale. Files left behind after uninstalling or flashing should only be configuration files in your user directory. You can wipe those by wiping your user directory (including hidden files), but that shouldn't be necessary at all. |
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I have not had such problems. Apart from inability to stream windows media its been excellent, no single reboot. Good battery. |
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