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Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Megacrazy (Post 389369)

I know how to make playlists buddy. Unfortunately if it takes you forever to make one I don't think it counts as a playlist.

As far as syncing, wtf is the ovi suite and why does it coexist with the pcsuite?

What needs to be synced? Music? Drag-n-drop ma man? :D

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Megacrazy (Post 389395)

As a phone that is supposed to be bought by many many people it falls flat on its face.

Um... it's not a phone. It's a pocket computer that just so happens to have some phone features to it. :p

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

Send it back then ITSYWITSY BABY.:D

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Originally Posted by Megacrazy (Post 389298)

Overall

+ Feels solid
+ Great screen
+ Good sound quality from speakers/phone
+ Pretty fast camera
+ Good keyboard
+ USB charging/sync
+ Customizable desktop
+ Fast GPS lock
+ Nice Task Switching
+ Very nice OS

- Scrolling anywhere is like a bunch of mini seizures, really close together. In other words, garbage. Why the hell is this not perfectly smooth like the iPhone? It's the same hardware.
- Missing features that make you go WTF: no playlists, no searching email.
- WTF do you sync with...you get OVI links from the factory yet you try ovi suite and you get "device not supported". Typical Nokia garbage.
- Desktop widgets are cool but take facebook and news...you get 2-3 lines that keep scrolling and no way to make the widget larger. Completely useless.
- Music player widget is great but does not work with A2DP. Why?
- RSS reader is slow as hell to update (wifi or not). Scrolling is painfull at best.
- Transitions in the OS are nice but they often turn choppy and fail altogether. If you want to use transitions see that 2 year old device...what was it again...oh yeah.
- Try playing music and going online at the same time. The choppy scrolling gets even worse. Can I still scroll in the browser? Yeah. Is it painful as hell? Yeah.

Browser:

+ Pages load fast considering everything it's loading.
- Scrolling through bookmarks is slow as hell. Why?
- Scrolling through pages you get the checkered pattern VERY often. Sometimes you sit there for 3-5 seconds waiting for the scroll to catch up. WTF?
- Sometimes the pages get messed up with previous pages. Half the page would be the current page, half the previous page. You have to either reload the page or scroll over the messed up area to refresh it. WTF?
- Clicking back brings up this nifty history view. Nice. Now I have to factor in 5-10 seconds every time I want to click back? Have a history button and have the back button do just that: TAKE YOU BACK. No, I don't want to press backspace.
- Flash...yeah it does flash and youtube videos. If you feel like waiting 20 seconds for the video to catch up to the audio every time you move the page while playing the video then this device is for you.

Conclusion

I could go on and on but in a few words: THIS PHONE IS GARBAGE. I like it for what it can do but it doesn't do anything better than other phones out there. The experience is still painful. All the fragmented scrolling and painfull transitions make you feel like you're asking the device to do too much. Over-planned features are everywhere and yet not fully implemented (widgets, what widgets?). Basic functions are missing.

Where are the apps? WTF do you sync with? Why isn't there a central support page for this phone..etc.etc. I don't think Nokia has their stuff together and doubt they ever will. For me, this was Nokia's last chance to continue earning my business after all the garbage I bought from them over the years. Let's see how it pans out with some firmware updates but I am starting to get the feeling we're all wasting our time.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

If smooth scrolling is so important for you I understand... For me I would never EVER EVER sell mine. Got rid of my iPod cos its too restrictive for me. Indeed is smooth but at the same time I need to use the phone how apple wants...

Skype+messaging+browser in this phone are perfect... Also my wife didnt understand how come the radio of the car was playing the music of the phone... cooool!!!

(Damn, I lost the perfect oportunity of scaring her... Leaving inside of the car for a while and recording my voice... "Babbyyy... its my ghost... I am deaaaaadd...")

Sad hasnt worked for you pal...

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Megacrazy (Post 389352)

I think you are confusing a reality check with complaining.

Would you buy a car with 3 wheels only because the last wheel was in development? Don't worry it's coming in version 1.1. The point is that Nokia has been pulling this crap with all their phones lately. They keep pumping out phones and none of them are any good. Well guess what, this one sucks too.

FYI, I believe it can't helped to release updates later n ship half baked software first. It has become the industry norm for quite some time. The tough competition and time to market is the primary cause. I am sure you are very well aware that Apple did the same with iPhone too, it is not a problem, its just how things work now. Get used to it please.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 389437)

Yes it does. Though playlists are nice when you want to say make one for a party, or do smart playlists (smart playlists would be a nice feature actually).

Though I wonder why there's no music program (not online like Last.FM, etc.) out there that is done via tags.

Doesn't sort an album by ID3: track Number properly, which is mega annoying.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

I think its cool that you point out the phones flaws which is good input for future updates and what not. The funny part is how you put in your initial post that the phone is just garbage and yet in a later post you replied that you really enjoy the phone and do not want to give it up. lol.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

Maybe it shoud have been "PHONE part is garbage"? Still rough, but makes more sense than OP's title and subsequent posts.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Rushmore (Post 389503)

Maybe it shoud have been "PHONE part is garbage"?

I just successfully made a phone call, so the phone part did everything I was expecting it to do. Wouldn't call it garbage :)

It works a lot better than most S60 phones with their first firmware versions.

Re: N900 - Yes, it sucks.

What is that Problem with A2DP?