Re: Another Iphone fanatic with N900 review
 

I follow Om since a long time and he has been writing off Nokia quite a bit of late.
But even in huis articles as of a month back - he wasnt that aware of Maemo as a platform and his sense of Nokia no t doing anything right was based on his knowledge of Nokia as a Symbian power-house.

But in the mainstream media I have seen others also write off Nokia as a first impression.
Apart from Om, his fellow blogger Dave Winer (of RSS fame) has given up on his iPhone a long time , but when suggested the N900 and Maemo as a open platform, he wasn't that warm to it either - as according to him Nokia fails in terms of making things easy and intuitive like the iPhone (even though Dave is objective and doesn't like the iPhone because of its closed nature).

So to many mainstream users the iPhone is a benchmark of what is right with a mobile device - as much as they understand what is wrong with the iPhone and Apple.

Re: Another Iphone fanatic with N900 review
 

If it was not for the N900, the e71 would have been the last Nokia I would ever buy. They wasted soo much goodwill in the last 2 years I'm not surprised everyone treats them with suspicion now.
- N95 8GB . Lets try and milk a few more years out the n95
- That N series camera phone for NAM. EPIC delay to US markets! can't even remember the model number
- N97. Total Joke. 2 yr old hardware. Poor UI implementation (20% of the screen used for an OK/Cancel button.. WTF!). Expensive
- E71 firmware updates. Total disaster delay/mess up for v3
- N97 mini. Lets make the same crap smaller
- E72. Lets make it faster but keep the tiny *** screen!
- Why no Xenon flash?
- All non-touch screen phones continue to have tiny-screen and resolution even though the competition has caught up.
- lets also screw small time deveopers with the symbian-signed crap. Hand over your money! for a cert

It can all be forgiven with the n900 if its stable and battery keeps with 3G

Re: Another Iphone fanatic with N900 review
 

It seems the heat on Om got to him and he has another article on his blog about the N900 - Skype comes to the N900.

The funny thing his retraction line at the end where he is defensive and says he doesn't use an iPhone but a Blackberry (which is true - since quite a few months back he gave up on coverage issues with AT&T). :D

Re: Another Iphone fanatic with N900 review
 

I wouldn't call it a retraction when honestly the people were stating here/otherwise that he was still using an iPhone; which was 100% incorrect.

I'd call that a correction of incorrect assumptions.