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and on the other side of the fence

http://www.nirave.co.uk/

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Some of the key features of the N900 are listed below.

* 800 x 480 pixels 3.5″ resistive touchscreen
* Maemo 5 Open-Sourced Operating System
* 1GB RAM (256mb + 768 virtual “swappable” RAM)
* 32gb internal memory (expandable to 48gb with a 16gb MicroSD memory card)
* HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, InfraRed (woooot? You can apparently control tv boxes and sets with the infrared port), USB
* 5mp camera with autofocus, Dual LED flash – video recording WVGA (848×480 pixels)@25fps
* Accelerometer, FM transmitter
* Internal GPS with A-GPS support

I thought today I’d go down to the Nokia Flagship Store in Regent Street and check out the device for real.

My first impressions: the device looks alright but it is a finger-print magnet. I’m not happy about the position of the keyboard in regards to the slide as it is very very difficult to type on the top row of the keyboard without hitting the bottom of the screen.

Furthermore, the screen just doesn’t seem polished enough and although I’m a mobile enthusiast and like exploring new technologies (i.e. Maemo 5), I can’t see myself forking out any money at all for this device.

That’s my rant over for now. Back to the store & the impressions of staff working there.

When you see the store you see this huge device in the window with a working screen (huge meaning about 100 times the size of the actual device) and it looks good but I can’t help but think that it doesn’t look as nice as the one they had for the N97.

There is only one working unit in the store and one female sales assistant seems to hover with it in her hands… She was very protective of the fact I might drop the device and damage it. When I was comparing it to the N97 she was like yeh it’s a wicked device (the N900) but she lacked any conviction in saying that and I asked her, are you going to buy one? She said erm well maybe and I could tell she didn’t really intend on it.

I asked about stock and she said oh it was meant to be in today, let me check if we have it. Firstly, with the massive device in the window and a Maemo Experience Lounge (where the Vertu shop was), I knew instantly she knew they didn’t have it in stock – if the did I’d have expected the Lounge to be open and customers to be allowed in and I’d expect more than one device.

She came back and said err no it appears to have been delayed; I said when will it be in stock? She didn’t know so she asked another guy and he said erm 7-10 days or so, most likely beginning to middle of next week (remember, there were reports of the N900 pre-orders being despatched today and it is meant to be available next week monday for all contract pre-orders!).

They offered me a contract as well.

Their contract deals are:

* 18 month contract
* 600 minutes
* Unlimited texts
* Unlimited internet
* £40 / month
* Vodafone
* Free phone

* 24 month contract
* Vodafone
* 600 minutes
* Unlimited texts
* Unlimited internet
* £35 / month
* Free phone

The store did however confirm that the device is available exclusively through them sim-free / on contract with Vodafone (T-mobile coming soon!) and through Mobile Phones Direct until January when Vodafone, T-Mobile & Orange should be receiving it in their stores. (We will be bringing you a N900 contract deals comparison post later on in the day so wait for it!)

All of these delays leads to big questions about Nokia’s ability to release devices on time. They were expecting the Maemo 5 device to become a niche market product and weren’t expecting as many people to be as interested as there are but they should still not be delaying the release of the device to fulfill potential demand… the more delays there are, the more likely that the “potential demand” will decrease.

now i'm dissheartened

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Originally Posted by olighak (Post 370316)

Nokia 6150 all the way! Back to Nokia´s top dog of 1998!

Maybe soon I can party like it´s 1999....

No ****? My first phone ever :D
But in some way good to hear, more back-in-time-travellers ;D

Who else out there wants to join ? Previous phone and current phone :P!!!

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stay on topic please.

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:mad:if it doesn't ship by next week, i'm gonna cancel my pre-order and buy another phone!:mad: Any suggestions on what phone i should get???

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this one: http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/u...pr55s2hc_b.jpg

I am going to forgo the N900 for it.

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Originally Posted by Abemelek (Post 370326)

:mad:if it doesn't ship by next week, i'm gonna cancel my pre-order and buy another phone!:mad: Any suggestions on what phone i should get???

The HTC HD2.

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Originally Posted by meyma (Post 369757)

They know that we want the phomputer anyway.

Phomputer. Now there is a word to take in the vocabulary :cool:

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Originally Posted by Abemelek (Post 370326)

:mad:if it doesn't ship by next week, i'm gonna cancel my pre-order and buy another phone!:mad: Any suggestions on what phone i should get???

HTC touch pro 2, the keyboard should be very good.

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Originally Posted by wheatbisc (Post 370322)

No ****? My first phone ever :D
But in some way good to hear, more back-in-time-travellers ;D

Who else out there wants to join ? Previous phone and current phone :P!!!

3510i - At least it has colour =/

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http://gizmodo.com/5400593/htc-touch...view-a-tragedy hd2 dont have the best reviews exactly

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I personally do not like HTC's OS at all... and by saying "at all" I mean "at all". There's nothing good about it.

If there is, please let me know...

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Originally Posted by Abemelek (Post 370326)

:mad:if it doesn't ship by next week, i'm gonna cancel my pre-order and buy another phone!:mad: Any suggestions on what phone i should get???

I hear Nokia's N900 is pretty good.

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swedish site mobil.se will allow ppl to chat with nokia 15.00 GMT+2(this friday). they will probably not have more information than we do But we can at least try to find out the date:D. But they will probably ignore the qustions about shipping date:mad:

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Originally Posted by wheatbisc (Post 370322)

Who else out there wants to join ? Previous phone and current phone :P!!!

Current is a Nokia 1100, previous was a Philips Diga, and no, I'm not joking.

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Originally Posted by ewan (Post 370362)

Current is a Nokia 1100, previous was a Philips Diga, and no, I'm not joking.

What the...? OMG, won't blame you if the delays have made you mad ;D

Seriously, I now consider myself a lucky dude that I even got that phone ;)
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But wasn't there something about Nokia need to release it before next year because of investors or something like that? And also to catch up on Xmas sales?

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This delay wasn't much of a big deal for me until I preordered it at Newegg on the 8th. Now I notice the difference between waiting for a phone to release and waiting for a phone being shipped to you. :(

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Originally Posted by Dave999 (Post 370357)

Mobil.se dont usally have chatts if the company answering questions dont have anything to reveal. They have this chatts when they are anouncing things and when phones are near to release so i see it as a good sign. I read Mobils.se's news everyday :D

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Originally Posted by Crockett (Post 370372)

nice, i wish that site was in english. I would follow up too!

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hi fellows..
im new here..

so does anyone know ehen this mavellous devce is to be released? ;))

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I'm sure Maemo people at Nokia want to get N900s to our hands as soon as possible.

It seems that people are very unhappy of this one time delay from october to november. There is also complaints about Nokia's communication with the community and customers.

One way to do something to this is to buy Nokia's shares and to go to the next shareholders' meeting and tell executives and other shareholders what you think Nokia should do better in the future.

It's better to use all this energy to sometime productive.

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Originally Posted by TfS (Post 370380)

hi fellows..
im new here..

so does anyone know ehen this mavellous devce is to be released? ;))

see the last 2300 posts or so. I think that will give you a good idea.

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Originally Posted by TfS (Post 370380)

hi fellows..
im new here..

so does anyone know ehen this mavellous devce is to be released? ;))

yes, within a year;)

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if the recently announced X6 comes out earlier then the N900...man, i will be speechless...

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Originally Posted by TfS (Post 370380)

hi fellows..
im new here..

so does anyone know ehen this mavellous devce is to be released? ;))

If all the people on here are good boys and girls, may be the santa comes to town the next week :)

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around 500 posts in this thread in the last 24 hrs.

thats 20 posts/hr. thats 1 post every 3 minutes on average.

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Somebody changed the way these threads display in the browser in the last 3 days. The next page arrow key is cutoff and so is the next highest page number. I can no longer move through threads on my N810. Same sit in stock browser, tear and midori.

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Originally Posted by r0eladn (Post 370392)

around 500 posts in this thread in the last 24 hrs.

thats 20 posts/hr. thats 1 post every 3 minutes on average.

thats pretty solid math!

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Originally Posted by att (Post 370382)

Yes or if you dont have the money...go to nokia and answer Customer Satisfaction Survey. only seen it on nokia.se and nokia.co.uk so far. And when you get the question about what information you are missing about products. you know what to do:D i will give you a hint...release date:mad:

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i just go this email from expansys-usa

"No, they were not released yet. According to Nokia, we should expect a shipment by the end of next week.

Thank you,"

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just 7 more days till next seppuku.... c'mon Nokia, release a phonput4r, save a life!

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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat (Post 370211)

There's 52 weeks in a year........................................

If it where that simple...

weeks are tricky on this earth..

First which kind of week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

then if we all decide that we are talking about the 7 days week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-day_week

what is week 1?? which week 1 are we talking about?
The one from most of Europa or the one from UK/USA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-day_week#Week_number

happily this year usa and europa are in sync..so no problems there. Hopefully the N900 wont be delayed until next year because then we have a week 1 problem! (usa/uk 27 dec -> 2 jan) but in the rest of europe week 1 is 4 jan -> 10 jan!

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Originally Posted by ceroberts75 (Post 370405)

i just go this email from expansys-usa

"No, they were not released yet. According to Nokia, we should expect a shipment by the end of next week.

Thank you,"

way to go nokia!

we have a saying in germany which claims that anticipation is the best of joys ;P

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Originally Posted by ceroberts75 (Post 370405)

i just go this email from expansys-usa

"No, they were not released yet. According to Nokia, we should expect a shipment by the end of next week.

Thank you,"

what are u talking about? could be anything from batteries to headsets;)

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Originally Posted by aironeous (Post 370395)

I noticed that, thought maybe a bug due to extra large thread, but obviously if just changed in last couple days, maybe it was intentional to try to shut this thread down, or at least slow it down.

I found my way to the last pages of this thread by manually typing the address, it just changes in page numbers so easy enough.

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Originally Posted by ceroberts75 (Post 370405)

i just go this email from expansys-usa

"No, they were not released yet. According to Nokia, we should expect a shipment by the end of next week.

Thank you,"

There's that word "expect" again. I expect to win a million dollars next week...

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Originally Posted by TfS (Post 370408)

way to go nokia!

we have a saying in germany which claims that anticipation is the best of joys ;P

I sincerely disagree. I'd rather have my nokia than to wait for it...

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Originally Posted by GunnerzMate (Post 370412)

I sincerely disagree. I'd rather have my nokia rather wait for it...

oh well...just be happy you have something to look forward to ;P

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Originally Posted by euanandrews (Post 370410)

I'm actually having the same issue with my Samsung I900's opera. What I did was search for the page I want on google, lol. (yes, I did a google search) Then I start changing page # manually.

Also, I just got off of the chat with Nokia USA, they said by the end of this month. But I'm sticking to Newegg's 14th.

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I really hope it's not the end of this month. I was looking forward to having it in my hands by end of next week. Especially since I'm pretty much paying for a 3G connection with a device that can only do Edge right now.

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Luckily I only pay $4.99 for my data connection.