Alternative to N900?
 

So I recently lost my N900, and the insurance company say they can't get me another one to replace it with. I'm gutted tbh, loved the phone. Especially the ample storage and large amount of video and audio codecs. The phones I've been offered are:

• HTC Desire
• HTC HD2
• Blackberry 9700 bold 2
• and the Sony Erikson x10 experia

I've looked at those phones and they all seem to fall well short in some way on the N900, however the terms of my insurance state

Should Your original Telephone no longer be available, the Insurer will replace it with the nearest functionally equivalent model.

They are open to suggestions, and I reckon they'll give me a more expensive phone, to a degree, if I moan enough.

So what does everyone think the nearest functionally equivalent phone would be? What would you get if you had to replace your N900? I really don't know enough about phones myself to even know which brands / makes etc. to start looking at :confused:

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Most of the mentioned phones are giants. they're pretty bulky in the pocket. But if you ask me I would select the one with the android OS. That should be the OS with the nearest functionality to maemo as of the moment. Although it's really not near at all. Maybe it has 50% of the functionality of maemo. :)

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I would get whatever is the most expensive, sell it brand-new sealed on ebay, then try and buy an N900 with the money.

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Yep guess too that you should pick the Desire, it'll be the lesss boring after a N900....

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dell streak?lol...

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The N900 is no longer available?! Gotta love those insurance companies...

+1 to the "most expensive phone, sell on Ebay, buy new N900" idea above.

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Yea I'm thinking about the ebay thing too, although I've told the insurance company the phones they offered aren't good enough (and why) and that I feel the nearest functionally equivalent phone is the HTC Desire HD! All of a sudden they think they might be able to get me a N900 after all! :D So hopefully I wont need to go the ebay route!

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I third the Ebay route. Hope your insurance company gets its act together.

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Hmm... Tell your insurance company to http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products...#/main/landing off

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The ebay idea is certainly the best. However, if I absolutely had to choose I would get the HTC HD2 and put Android on it.

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If i was in your situation i'd just ask for the cash equivelant and buy an N900, or ask them if you can buy one and send you proof of purchase for reimbursement

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Don't do Ebay unless you have to. I would suggest Craigslist. You would save yourself a good bit of cash.

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The most annoying thing about this is that my insurance is the default insurance (unless you opt out) for every (contract?) N900 bought from the official Nokia store!

I was going to get Vodafone insurance, but actually thought this problem might occur with vodafone. I was sure the insurance Nokia sold me, even though not administered by Nokia, would be able to get me a N900!

I might actually email Nokia to see what they say, since they sold me the insurance.

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The most functionality equivalent device? Hal 9000

Re: Alternative to N900?
 

Why not get it through amazon? http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N900-Unl...9SW/ref=sr_1_1

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1) Well you could get whatever phone is the most expensive and sell (as suggested).

2) You can try one of those phones and see if you might want to switch (Desire is great and many hacks for it, basically a smaller HD2 with trackpad)
(HD2 does WM6, WP7, Froyo but a bit rough on the edges)
(Blackberry eww)

3) Try to "push" the insurance claim into giving you a better phone (suggest the HTC Desire Z/G2 because that is a good qwerty upgrade which now has been hacked ... use the qwerty and froyo as comparison to the N900)
(They may suggest a Milestone, which your screwed cause it is an equivalent phone which has 1 current major drawback = locked bootloader, great phone nonetheless)