Lost my N900...
 

As the title says, I lost my N900 on a Sydney bus 1 day before going for a 12 day drive along the coast south of Sydney... I returned this weekend.

What to do?..... I am not going to buy another N900, it is too outdated and the OS is a dead end now.

I guess I'll decide by the end of this week what device I am going to buy next.

Leaning heavily towards Android.

Re: Lost my N900...
 

you could hold out and see what the N9 will bring.. :)

Re: Lost my N900...
 

Buy a cheapy Android phone for now and then saving for something in the 3rd quarter 2011. Wait to see what the N9 would bring and if is 5hit then just move your wagon and attach with the high end dual core droids :) Yes you've heard me, DUAL CORE droid (though the OS is not yet utilizing the multicores processor but soon in Android 2.4 may be)
I'm prepare to jump the cliff for that if Nokia release the N9 and it doesn't match my specification in modern Mobile device hardware. Seriously buying a Nokia is always 1 year behind in hardware spec :)

Re: Lost my N900...
 

My faith in Nokia as died a loooong time ago.
Unless the N9 and it's specs are announced and confirmed before the end of this week, Nokia has just lost another customer to Android.

Re: Lost my N900...
 

Yes, I am aware of what is available now and what is coming on the Android camp.
Just watched a few videos of Honeycomb... Nokia, step up your game or surrender to Android.

Actually, in my experience Nokia is usually up there in hardware specs, but the software... and the firmware updates... and no Flash updates...

Re: Lost my N900...
 

I am more than happy with Maemo and the N900. Yes Nokia have all but abandoned it, but the community is incredible.

In the last few months alone we have recieved working and easy to use usb host mode, monitor mode and my favourite update to date... PACKET INJECTION!

Seeing the look on my brothers face when I was able to crack his wifi connection in 7 minutes was priceless :)

Re: Lost my N900...
 

Believe me, if not for the maemo.org community I would have jumped ship at least 6 months ago.

Yes it's fun to show off things that no other currrent device has like the FM transmitter, but that doesn't make up for the fact that the OS is missing or is lacking in areas that shouldn't be that hard for the Engineers at Nokia to fix or provide us with, out of the box or with minor updates.

Was MMS really that hard to implement?
FMMS always worked for me and I only used it maybe 5 times, but MMS, use it a lot or not at all is a basic mobile phone function.
The $50 Nokia my GF uses has it.

Re: Lost my N900...
 

FM transmitters are becoming fairly common within high-end smart phones now. Spec-wise, the N900 is gradually losing it's edge but I agree that the community is keeping it alive.

I have the latest NitDroid version installed on my internal emmc with multiboot and I spend a lot of time playing around with all the nice android apps. When installed to the internal memory, it's actually faster than plenty of android devices

Re: Lost my N900...
 

yes its sux when you loose something. Been there lost few phones back in the days. But i would hold to buying new phone right now. Probably summer will bring something.
Personally I will not going to buy any phone in the near future until there going to be something significant like 1.5 Ghz and such an issues like flash player for example wouldn't be an issue at all and so on...

Re: Lost my N900...
 

About the flash player thing, I have this to say:

I am not even considering buying a device that does not run the latest Flash Player and Adobe AIR apps.

I will miss the N900 keyboard and resistive screen and the openness of the OS.

But I don't care what OS or hardware the device has, no Flash no sale, no AIR no sale. Thank you.