iPhone lovers totally owned
 

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Silly me, i just thought this whole place was about maemo devices

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Nice to see another intelligent thread in the forum.

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Maybe they dont need to pay those Nokia patent royalties after all.

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Eheheheh. Nice.

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And the conclusion of the article, somehow this thread ignores. Here is the key sentence:


"The fact is, although the iPhone is the worst phone in the world, it's the best handheld computer there is"

Yes, it's a dumb sentence, and not true, but it's in the article. Maybe the N900 can take the worst-phone/best-handheld-computer title away from the iPhone.

I hope so.

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N900 Blows this kiddy phone away
FACT.

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Join Date: Oct 2009
FACT.

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so what:d
fact:d

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Again, are we comparing phones or mobile computers?
iPhone might be great in everything else than phoning, but so could N900.

Before the "great public" has gotten their hands on N900, I say it is pretty premature to make any global and objective judgement which is which and what is what.

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I find it ironic that the article talks about iPhone's phone capability which is perhaps the weakest part of N900 too... and probably one of its features the NIT fans least care about.

Oh, and most people are turned off by fanaticism and fanboyism in general, even when it's about things they care\love about.

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Sure, the phone featue is the weakest part of the N900, but at least it does work reliably and doesn't have the issues the iPhone has. Lack of features is a different thing than lack of reliability.

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But feature wise it gets beaten by even entry level phones. You can't even set a ringtone per group or person right now.

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The real importance such minor features is highly subjective. As for me, I couldn't care less about this one. If the phone rings that's all I need. I know who's calling by caller ID anyway.

Many of these little features will no doubt be added soon. You couln't do much of anything with Android when it was released. It sold anyway.

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Yeah thats true - fortunately I never use those features. I just dont have the cycles to customize peoples ringtones. All I really ask of my phone is that I can makes calls, get calls and voice quality is ok and doesnt drop. Regardless of the "cool" stuff the iPhone can do - the poor performance on those basic functions make it a no go for me. If the N900 can do those things AND give me the near notebook functionality it makes it for me the very best option.

I can see how some people would want the extra phone functionality though.

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Well, I have no idea what hypothetical "NIT fans" care about, but I am pretty satisfied with the N900 phone. It works just like any other Nokia phone, reliably, with good audio quality. iPhone sounds rather tinny in comparison, although I have not heard of iPhone dropping calls on the local GSM network.

IMHO, Nokia should get kudos for the unified Contacts and Messaging alone, if not for the rest of Maemo5.

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Still, its hard to argue that a device which "has not come out yet" is better than "a device which has been out some time". :-p

We know the N900 will blow the iPhone and all competition away in many ways. However until its released, nobody is going to realise that.

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Well, first, we do not know whether it will blow iPhone away (sounds rather unrealistic). Second, there are at least a few hundred N900 in users' hands nowadays, so we can judge N900's strong and weak sides, as long as we take into account that the currently released firmware is not final.

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Agree; it's tiresome to see all these iPhone posts.
If you are that obsessed about them go and buy one and post on some Apple forum?

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My objection to the "it's the best handheld computer there is" wasn't that the N900 should win but it isn't out yet; it was that presumably the N810 and N800 beat the iPhone as a handheld computer.

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I have yet to see a Nokia smartphone that blew its competition away. that's what people said about the N97 and look at what happened there? the N800 was supposed to blow everyone away, but then it gets overshadowed by the iphone and 90% of the general public goes "what's an n800?"

Even now when you say N900 to someone they're more likely to not know what you're talking about. Nokia is losing smartphone market share faster than my grandma can lose her glasses. And mindshare is just as important as marketshare..and what do people say when they talk about smartphones? iphone. blackberry. and "google phones" (android). very seldomly do you hear "maemo" in the general public (not talking about phone/mid/umpc/nokia geeks)