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Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by atilla (Post 760010)

what do you mean with multiple?why someone would want to have 2?????
confused......

Me too! But look at this:

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will be buying a couple more once the second hand prices hit £200.

That's in this thread. I've seen other threads where folks have one, two... of the N900. Sorta surprising that folks are buying multiples.

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by archzai (Post 758698)

How many of you guys are still happy with your N900s?

So, it's a week since we last asked if you are still happy... are you still happy?

What about now?

How about now?

Now?

Sheesh.

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 760030)

Me too! But look at this:

That's in this thread. I've seen other threads where folks have one, two... of the N900. Sorta surprising that folks are buying multiples.

I'm not that surprised... if I see something I think is the key, that I use daily, and that it may be going off the market soon, which hits a reasonable price point, I sometimes buy a backup. I did that with my old Point 150. I used the crap out of that thing, and when I saw one with a bad backlight tube on ebay for $30, I snagged it. I've scavenged it for a replacement drive, it's touch pad, and a couple other parts over the years. If I had two, I'd have even more cool things going on on them. :)

I could easily see getting a second N900, if the price point hit the right value. It's still a little high for me right now, but if it goes below a yet to be determined threshold, I could see buying a second as a backup, and/or as a mini home server, etc. I'd be using my Neo for that right now if it were stable enough to not explode every 12 hours or so...

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

even 200 bucks are too heavy for the same thing twice.for that money i would buy something really necessary.maybe a present for the girlfriend;)
meh im just joking.
no really i do with my phone what i want i dont need a second one because i now if something goes wrong(in 3 months happend one time)i can reflash and start from scratch

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by slai (Post 758713)

Ive been using the N900 as my main computer for about 2.5 months now, and it does its job. Torrents, browsing, movies, games, etc.

I really want to be nice...but I also really want to call you a ******. I know it's not nice, but it was just my very first reaction.

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

OC your phone and you'll want to break up with your girlfriend just to spend more time with your n900. trust me.

(uhm, the first part, i wont suggest that seriously)

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 760030)

Sorta surprising that folks are buying multiples.

for me it is depressing: No one has announced a device that is better than N900 for me. I'll probably have to buy new N900 because I've promised myself one phone a year and I will not opt out.

it would be pretty good to have two: one that is for usage and another for triple boot android&meego etc...

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

Not Another One Of These Threads!!!!!! :(

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 760009)

This thread makes me wonder one thing... why are people buying multiple N900's?

I don't buy more than one refrigerator, nor other gadgets (computers do not count). And the secondary phone I have isn't even a feature phone, it's my boring replacement of a phone, a Motorola F3 that I keep around just in case.

Luckily a mobile computer such as n900 is not as big as a fridge and has myriad uses. I had two. Used the second for testing as well as media player for for kids with though. You can fit a bunch of cartoons in 48gb.

Just sold second n900 to try out some of these other devices. Main n900 is still my daily driver. Tried the Samsung vibrant and while it was vibrant in most aspects,it didn't suit me in SSH,jabber,or sip. So.now that is media player for kids and also more games for them on android although no angry birds.

Re: With all the new phones coming out....

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Originally Posted by danramos (Post 759936)

Dude. It's been 9 months and faster/better hardware had already been out almost immediately after the N900 came out.

Speaking to the issues of multitasking--well, that's what you get when you multitask on ANYTHING (be it Maemo, Android, desktop Linux, Windows, etc.). When you use up resources, you start to see it crawl. On Maemo, you would do well to remain cognizant of too many open apps. On Android, I never see a slow down because I have an App Killer monitoring my system for apps I want to permit multitasking all the time, and automatically time-out kills apps I don't permit to run in the background all the time. So, it manages FOR me even when I don't yet notice any slowness. Maybe there's a similar sort of "you're not really using this background app, do you want me to close it?" sort of tool for the N900? Or maybe someone could write one up. Would be terribly handy on a small system like this.

I'm not sure that the sentiment is entirely accurate about how buggy it is, but I will wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment about Maemo's WONTFIX and Nokia's neglecting customers. For all those people who claim that this isn't the place to complain, where else do you discuss the incredible WONTFIX and FIXED IN [next OS] issues, then?

Well, on Maemo multitasking issues is not cpu related but IO. The most hatefull thing is try to do something when music plays -- reading pdf/djvu, browsing or view maps.
Opening next page in evince/pdf viewer? Welcome to music jerks. Near me my wife with oooold ancient onetasked Palm T|X reads pdf among listening music without any jerks!

Regarding bugs: it's nice to have place where you can report and discuss bugs. But I wish these should be "real" bugs, while maemo has nasty bugs -- lame Input Framework, for example.
Or broken MfE with Google sync.