What have been your 'wow' moments with the N900 so far?
 

Ok, many people have had their N900 a few days or weeks now, and a lot of you have shared your opinions on it. But I'd love to know what have been those moments with the device that have blown you away, made you realise it's a keeper. For me it was these:

- riding home the other day on the bus, I had seven tabs open in the browser. One of those was my bank's site, which is normally impossible to open on a mobile because of a lot of complex drop-down menus. But the N900 handled it no problem. At the same time in another tab I had a streaming video of a conference lecture I wanted to watch. I also had Mauku running, my email being pulled down and a PDF open. I switched effortlessly between them and realised that this would be impossible on 99% of mobile phones on the market.

- second thing was when my wife - who's from Kyrgyzstan - wanted to phone home. Normally she has to go upstairs to use Skype on the computer with the headphones. But I gave her my phone and let her use SkypeOut (the integration of Skype by the way is absolutely awesome), she spoke for a while and said the quality was crystal clear. My son wanted to speak to his grandmother, so I switched it to speakerphone and he had a chat, again wonderful quality. Normally calls to the country are really crackly, but this was much better.

Now, for those who change their phones regularly these may not seem amazing, but this is my first for several years and I am ridiculously happy by some of the things it can do. What things have really impressed you about the N900?

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Back of a bus in Barcelona my first look at liqflow. Amazing! I now have that on My Mo, and keep showing it off to people.

Other than that, the simple ease of checking email, workmail, twitter etc wherever am takes my breath away almost daily. The way that Mo swaps from cell data to wifi seamlessly without even bothing to ask me.

Learning to play games I've never played before (including Bounce), drawing on the sketchpad, sharing pics via service and pixelpipe.

Going to Barcelona - being invited to be part of something so incredible and wonderful.

And most of all the community.

Lots and lots of Wow moments!

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Install sshd, login and do a
I love this :-)

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Ovi email integration and IM/SMS functionality. Pleasantly surprised for the most part.

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wow mine is no where to be found!!! :(

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To be honest there have been no wow moments for me.
Really excited to get the phone and unbox it that was about all. As soon as i touched the screen for the first time my jaw dropped. It was no where near as smooth and responsive as my HTC HERO.
Had no problems initially but after 48 hrs of playing with it i realised that the phone side of the software is poor. Yes i know people say well its not a phone really blah blah, but the reception is really poor and it constantly dropped calls.
Found the phone uncomfortable to hold for long periods due to its thickness. The software is buggy and i know it will get better but with the battery issues, the poor touch functionality, the slow response and the size of the thing it just had to go.
Bring on the motorola milestone. Got it today and its a dream in comparison. The screen is beautiful and it all seems to work as it should. Slightly faster than my (OLD) Hero and with crystal clear clarity on phone calls. The speaker is hellish loud.

So in a nut shell im returning my n900 to nokia under the 14 day im not happy guarantee, selling my HERO and continuing to drewl over my milestone. Love it , just Love it.

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lol @ the hairy thingy under the bridge...
coughTROLLcough

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Lol. Are you smoking something?

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Seriously, from all the other threads out there you had to pick this one?!

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The camera did it for me. Verrry nice snaps, especially better reds than the usual Nokia snappers.

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No wow moment for me either. the phone's good, but I haven't had a wow moment yet. Maybe because I place the bar pretty high.

The MicroB browser is definitely nice though

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Horses for courses, if your loving your N900 then fair play, but for me it was a big disappointment. Each to there own.

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I've had one in my possession for less than 20min at this point

Setting up Mail for Exchange was easy
Email notification was nice
Deleting items from the calendar was easy
General system speed was sweet

My impressions will be on twitter or brighthand before mentioning more here. But yes, there are many wow moments to be had.

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When I turned it on.

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For me the "wow" moment was in early September.
I walked into Helsinki Flagshipstore and asked if I could test N900 prototype.
"Tottakai", he said.
I took it on my palm and did a sideway scroll on the panorama homescreen.

That was it.
I was sold.
Fanboi in heat,
I was.

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Shift-control-X to open the terminal was a "wow" moment for me. Even though I've had the command-line on my N810 and before that on my N800, having a dedicated keyboard shortcut legitimises it as mainstream.

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Buggy? Laggy? Not as smooth as the ever-jagged Hero? (Bought it because it looked very good on paper and felt good in the shop when I tried it, but hated it deeply after just one week. Simply nothing worked like I wanted it to.) Slow response? Drops calls because of very poor reception?

Uh, my device has none of this. I have lots of extra SW installed (also some from -devel), I've been using it heavily to Skype, MSN, SMSing, web surfing, email and ofc normal voice calls. The data connections are always on, either on my home or Uni WLAN or in their absence over cellular (3G/2G auto). I've even received a few Skype calls at my grandma's place where there's no WCDMA coverage... There seems to be no 3G limit anymore, EDGE is enough. And it picks up the signal with excellent clarity even in outer edges of GSM cells. Touch screen is hard to complain about; it's sensitive and nice to use, almost to the point of mistaking it for a capacitive one. The responsiveness is hardly slow; only the transition animations are obviously too short because they don't give the feeling of smooth transition (ever noticed how you spend quite much time waiting for transition animations to complete in several competitive products, btw?) And my N900 takes this use for a full working day - when I go to sleep, I connect the charger, and when I wake up, I pick it up and it's ready to keep me up to date the whole next day. So far there's been one day out of seven when I've had to worry about it running out of juice before bedtime.

Granted, the N900 is chubby, but using the N900 I don't feel like having to constantly worry about dropping it or avoiding closing the slide too sharply. The Milestone's slider module reaches so far over the edge of the lower part that both the display and the captouch panel will snap in half lengthwise that instant it hits the floor if you drop it from over 50 cm's height when it's open. And the particularly favored product among those who like silvery fruits is just as bad on this aspect; it's slippery and ridiculously fragile due to the glass face reaching the edges leaving no protective deformation area in the surrounding materials. No, if the face has to be glass, it has to be close to like it is in the Hero: not too close to any corners.

It sucks that you got a bad unit. Bye, have fun giving all details of your life to Google for free - it seems that you'll be happier inside that fence.

As for the WOW! moments: when I first scrolled the desktop. When I first opened the main menu, seeing how the background blurred but stayed there. Looked so much cooler than any competitor's view of that. Receiving a Skype call in my gradma's place, far away from 3G and WLANs - and not even realising I was talking on Skype before my friend at the other end accidentally switched off her headphone mic. I hadn't noticed the tiny Skype logo at the corner of her portrait.

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openarena! first first person shooter game on a mobile devices that i acutally enjoy playing, it made me remember my old cs days...

as for all the other stuff i was expecting it.

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My wow was when I opeded 22mb word.doc and 18mb excel file and on top I had several webpages in dashboard simultaneously and this device worked OK.

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There's been a few:

* Getting my relatively complicated website working in microB with hardly any effort at all: http://tunetrack.net
* Seeing adblock-plus in the more user-ish repos
* Installing python/pyside and porting a desktop pyqt4 app in about a day on the device itself
* Running driftnet in a debian chroot on open wifi networks :o

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i just got this baby today and no real wow moments yet. the closest was when i realized just how much faster and smoother i open and close browser windows. i feel the browser got quite a bit better since the N810.

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My biggest wow moment has been when I noticed on my home wifi network the media player automatically picked up my UPnP media server and was able to play music and video from it flawlessly right away out of the box!

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Hmm where should I start:

- The browser
- The desktops
-the general speed of the UI
- Integrated contacts with gsm/msn/skype
- X term
- Ease of Use of the app repositories
- Nokia Messaging pushing my gmails
- Speakers and music quality (although I'm waiting for some 3rd party music players)
- Camera, video is cool
- Sharing all types of media via the already available applications and sharing services

I only have two issues
1) wireless battery drainage bug
2) battery life in general is weak for me probably because signal quality here sucks... I hope I can, or the firmware can improve it somehow.

Other than these two issues everything has been awesome :)

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I played with one in the London NSF. My one should arrive tomorrow.

For me the wow moment was on picking it up for real. Its just felt beautifully weighted in my hand, perfect for two handed use. How often do you see other phone users walking down the road doing their email two handed in Portrait mode, LOL.

Again on the handling side of things,being able to scroll the screen down by pulling with my finger tip, and then to flick it up with the back of my finger nail just felt perfectly intuitive.

Sure it might feel chubby in my pocket, but not in my hand, where it will spend most of its time.

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For me everything was wow!!!
The problem is when you using head set it is hard to use key board or if you charging the phone and your head set is on, it just impossible to use your key board.

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Every time I click something I feel the power of ARM Cortex-A8 and PowerVR SGX transferring from the phone through my hands into me.

That in return generates small orgasms throughout my body :D

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wow moment number 1: Unboxing, connecting the the wireless, plug it in to the 42'' LCD in the living room, and browsing some youtube videos.

wow moment number 2: Doing a conference call using my car as an headset (bluetooth connection) . Was testing FM transmitter in the meantime.

The major problem for me is rethinking the concept of "laptop" because my laptop was suddenly left in a position where it is mostly useful when it is connected to the grid and running ktorrent :-).

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Probably the biggest so far (got it yesterday) was right after opening the box and having a play through.
I was just launching everything i could find, and while surfing i went back to the task switcher and had about 30 programs open.
Hadn't even noticed, since everything was still running smoothly.

The other was logging into my linux server and launching an X program, that's just so awesome.

Gonna have a lot of fun with this thing.

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wow.. you can't download the UK specific firmware from tablets-dev.nokia.com, it's been left off the list :( Why does the UK have such a bad time with firmware:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ia-n97-updates

Not totally related, but still

Biggest wow so far on the positive side has to be GPU acceleration.. Having used fairly basic (but good) tablets in the past, I'm loving the new GPU powered user interface.. scrolling is nice..
If this phone does nothing else, it's got me really excited about Maemo6!!

It is just a much nicer Maemo tablet.. and that makes me happy

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contacts integation, I chat ALOT, so having everything under 1 persons name like email, sms, gmail, skype was amazing.

The seamless switching between multitasking opening up proper videos on websites i needed a computer for (time.com), and just regular surprises e.g. the ease of opening 100mb powerpoint slides.

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Was on the metro, watching Hulu via the browser and this girl next to me ( you wouldn't think she was a nerd because of how gorgeous she was ) happened to look over and see it and ask 'What phone is that?' After I told her it was the N900, she started talking about how cool it was, how you could write Python, remote DNS, etc and was amazingly surprised that I had the phone because she thought it hadn't been released yet.

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A group of 5 people at work standing around me yesterday, the 1st full day I had the device, going "Wow! - among them iPhone users.

The IT guy at work, looking at the x terminal on my device with a root shell (me going "it's legal"), going "Wow!"

A designer telling me, "I can't use those screens, because of my nails" and then the look on her face as the desktops changed smoothly one to the other, and she just using the back of her fingernail.

For me, the screen - gorgeous clarity, the speed moving from application to application, the clean integration of communication mechanisms, the fact that Nokia Messaging (I'm on the US West Coast) hooked up the three email systems I use mostly without any drama.

Glad to be back on a Maemo device.

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Driving home while downloading a few albums using Transmission while broadcasting music from the phone to my car stereo using the FM transmitter when I realized I hadn't paid my mortgage.

Jumped on to Bank of America and made the payment. Meanwhile I was getting text messages in the background and while I hit a send link for a password I would jump out and answer a text. I wasn't really thinking about what I was doing until I got home and thought holy cow I can't believe:

a. I could do all that at the same time without so much of a glitch from the phone the entire time it ran nice and smooth.

b. I can't believe I didn't getting into a 7 car pile up while doing all this.

You know that you have a great device on your hands when you are being productive without having to think about it. That's always how I have measured device greatness, by how effortlessly I can work on being productive and staying entertained.

My complete WOW...

PS - Emulating snes always seems to wow everyone. I love being able to break this bad boy out for a bit of Super Mario World action.

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Chatting with my cousin on skype and he pngd me a streaming site for the Barca Vs Real match...

Clicked on it and it played so smoothly... watched the entire match on the phone...

I have one question though... Hulu is pretty sketchy for me... Am I missing something?

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Showing my family my new phone using the tv-out. Going through all of the fancy things it can do, and then looking up all the youtube videos they were shouting out and watching them stream perfectly on the TV.

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media player scrolls through a movie like its nothing. instant showing of the picture at the moment youve scrolled to.

msn contacts popping up and being able to chat.

keyboard on a phone --> very cool. (though i now see why some people called it limited, 4 row keyboard with bigger buttons can be nice. but i am still glad its small since the phone its size is very good.)

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Wow, I have been waiting for my device since October and I still don't have it. WOW!!!

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You got lucky. Hate sounding like a preachy ***** but it only takes a fraction of a second for something unexpected to happen while driving that can mean the difference between avoiding an incident and a wreck, injury, and maybe death .

Please pay attention to the road. For your sake, mine, and others.

Thanks.

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Ironically my "wow" moment was getting 3.5G reception outside my house.

Inside I get a weak 2G signal, but even outside no other device could ever get a 3G signal before on O2s crummy network. Either O2 upgraded something recently, or the N900 is REALLY sensitive.

I did notice I lost 3G if I held the N900 on the right though (where the antenna is) which can be tricky during extensive use, as my left hand gets tired.

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I hope you had the foresight to "demonstrate" the ease of inputting contact information by getting hers! ;)