How will you use your N900?
 

Digittante here (originator of the original "Has your N900 shipped today?" thread).

Gotta say I'm delighted folks have so much energy & enthusiasm for this device. I've lost track of how many shipping threads have emerged (let alone the thousands of posts on them).

Be sure to check out TnkGrl's latest videos on the device from her podcast and last week's N900 Meetup in San Francisco in which some Fennec team members demo Firefox Mobile on the device.

With the ship-date getting closer (BLT inventory reports stock availability tomorrow), I'm curious:

How will you use the N900?

What user scenarios, device-replacements, or dev work do you anticipate undertaking once the N900 is in your hands?

For me, I currently use two devices: a T-Mobile Dash (running WinMo 6.5) and a Zune 80Gig (with a nice pair of Bose cans).

These support constnat email/SMS messaging, Twittering, the occasional phone-cam upload, and media-storage/consumption usage scenarios. I'm hoping to replace both devices with the N900 and add usage scenarios for mobile blogging (via Wordpy), Contacts consolidation (via Hermes), and VOIP calling (Skype). In short, spend more time online, but less time at my desk....;-)

What 'r y'all hoping to do with your shiny new N900s?

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

I'd probably use it for a lot of work-related stuff (checking email through Exchange, maybe connecting via VPN and ssh'ing into my server boxes, etc.) I'd also use it quite a bit for surfing the internets, playing Linux games, probably play around with VoIP, and also play around with the social media features on the device as well.

But really, I'm really looking forward to using it as a mobile Linux computer; I'll probably end up doing everything I'm using my computer for right now and just do the same thing on the N900.

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

Hmm, thought I heard this topic before, here's alot of people's answers: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32237

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

If the battery is as good as claimed I am hoping to be able to use it for AIM, Yahoo and MSN so I no longer have to remember to click online/offline all the time when I leave the house or lock my PC. Instead I keep the N900 nearby and people can always contact me without the risk of my reply coming hours later.

It should also be a lot easier to quickly look something up and reply to messages while watching TV.

Other than that, making phone calls of course and checking prices when out of the house.

I may still take my iTouch out with me though for the exclusive Apps/Games on that but I am hoping to be able to use my N900 as a MiFi for that, so I get the best of both worlds.

Would be cool if someone wrote a Python app for the N900 that SCPs into the iTouch (jailbroken) and can synchronise the music library between the two devices. Would mean I could buy tracks/videos off iTunes and have them copied over the N900 more easily. I already have copied the file structure over to Linux before and mplayer can play the files fine without any extra decoding necessary.

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

In the bathroom while not working. :)

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

I will use it while I work! Streaming movies and music, OSM!

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

I’ll use it first has a phone, then for music, internet, chat and games.
I really need GPS too. I hope nokia speeds up with the development of ovi maps 3.
In preference for free. Now that google offered their turn by turn navigation for free nokia needs to play the same game (advertising).

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

... as a replacement for my 800x480 netbook that just died. (Everex Coudbook). Hard to believe that it'll have the same resolution that I'm already used to using on a much larger device. This will primarily be a portable computer for me... not a cell phone.

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

How did you create heaven and earth without it?

I hope to use it for getting unlost, finding local POIs, a reference library, a music player, a scripture reader, a communicator, and a journal editor while on bike tours, and as a replacement for my current dumb phone and Zaurus the rest of the time. It's unclear now how good it will be for the first couple use cases, to my disappointment. How the map app situation shapes up in the next month will probably determine whether i get one.

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

Hello newbies.

Kindly use the search feature, before starting a new thread or contributing to a rogue thread. Please :D

Thank you very much ;)

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

Or give yssss thread merging powers so he can make better use of his time. ;)

Re: How will you use your N900?
 

Since I used a Nokia Communicator 9500 I stick to "phones" which offer more than just messaging and making calls.

My 9500 hasn't died yet but it became super slow over the years and although I formatted it, it didn't want to become faster.
And now, the joints on the display are wore out and it's no fun to use the device anymore, cause it falls over everytime you use it on the desk.

I hope the N900 will be the replacement for my 9500, because neither HTC Touch Pro nor any other E-Series or N-Series Phone could do what my Communicator did.
And so i'm sticking around on a Nokia 7710 waiting for my baby coming home to me ;) :D