Someone should make a f--- poem on this crappy brick
 

This phone(n900) is the worst piece of ******ed sh-t since the stone age. I mean, which kinda company makes a device which is so frickin' hard to update. I cant do OTA nor flash. I use win 7 32 bit and flasher just doesn't work!
I wish someone would buy it off me but i still will make a loss :(
Everyone considering buying the nokia n900, dont! Please read this and instead invest in an iphone/android phone from samsung etc instead. Nokia is run by a bunch of meth addicted idiots who do dope while coding this sh-t software for this sh-t phone(the flasher utility). Apple & google own nokia in this market anyday simply because they can make things user friendly. And please dont imply that user friendly stuff is for idiots. No. Its for making our lives easier, which was the purpose of this black-*** brick in the first place. I would burn the n900 and film it with a new phone from some other company if i got a free phone.

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In before the reverse poo slinging / lock :D


To answer you though, I do understand your frustration to a certain degree. To someone who came to the phone after looking at e.g. Nokia's advertising campaign in Europe, I would expect a truckload less half-*** than the phone has.

But there is the other argument that the buyer should beware and do more research on what he is ultimately buying regardless of how it was advertised.

Fact is, the N900 is the latest in a long line of half-baked work-in-progress's. And it's still a half-baked work in progress, although you could say - accurately - that is pretty pathetic, and anyone defending the state of the N900 is a bit touched in the head or too steeped on OSS nerdery. However purposefully or not, it's aimed at a different kind of user. A bit of research would have uncovered this. I certainly entered N900 ownership with my eyes open, despite probably sharing a lot of your frustrations when trying to use it in an everyday situation.

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The first post is based completely on opinion and should not be taken as fact.

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I don't see whats so hard about updating it.
Open application manager, press update, select the Maemo5 update. If it fails, its because you installed incompatible devel software written by community members and is entirely unrelated to Nokia.

If for some reason the above is too complicated for you to understand though, Windows 7 x86 flasher is about the easiest thing in the universe to use. It's one command line, it's not hard. And before you ***** about "its non user friendly, why am I having to enter commands" and various other QQ, consider that the whole point of the Flasher is for power users/developers - If you're clueless (hint: you are) you should be using the pretty colourful updater provided by NSU or Ovi suite.

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Welcome to Maemo.org - thanks for stopping by!

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Many of us would completely agree with you, only in different wording.

You are absolutely right, this is not the phone for an average consumer. If you wanted easy to use, you should have gotten an iPhone.

The n900 is unique in that you can do things like overclocking it on the fly, or attaching it to a rolodex, but it still crashes, it still doesn't have good OVI support, and it still doesn't have a lot of things that most modern smartphones have.

Who is the n900 for? The n900 is for people who see that something is a little sluggish, so their first reaction isn't rebooting, it's opening up a terminal and seeing what processes are taking up the memory, or what's eating their rootfs, or finding what's peaking the CPU. The n900 is for people who find some form of joy in setting up a webserver on their phone. The n900 is for people who run more beta software than final releases, and the n900 is for people who love freedom.

The flasher works fine on an XP computer. Try running in compatibility mode, or borrow a friend's computer. If that's too difficult for you, the apple store is -> that way. Thank you and have a nice day.

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diagf ******

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Hi, I made a poem. You'll love it!

ankit255 is an N900 user,
Know it or not, he is a total loser.
He can't even figure out how to flash,
Expects that a smartphone will never crash.

So go buy an Android or an iPhone,
And next times research before you moan.
Because the N900 needs a bit of intelligence,
Which in your case..not a chance.

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aw, let down by the last word!

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nEED MOAR POAMS!!

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I doubt that. Dope makes for better code, in my book.

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So, how about selling it to me for $100? You'll both get money and the reassuring knowledge that from then on it will be used by someone with an IQ well past a door knob.

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Clue, this does not always work. For me the flasher was the only thing working when I wanted to update. I'm no noob when it comses to linux, been using it since waaay back and have been working with UI-programming for several companies. The nokia update sucks biiig time. Ovi most. OTA is excellent, when it works.

But the phone is great, though nokia never has been good in the business when it comes to updateing FW:s. Never.

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Thanks this made me laugh my *** off. (p.s. even my GF find the n900 simple)

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Hey, what's that supposed to mean? *feminist high-kick* :p

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Closed and Moved. More for the personal insults in replys then the first post.

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Thanks Andrew for taking care of this.

Come on guys. Surely we can invent better sports...