I wanted to know if the n900 is still a good phone today
 

With the rise of more powerful phones, and me being in the market for a new phone, I am considering getting n900 or maybe the newer n9. I was just wondering does the n900 still stack up to newer phones.

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If you are looking for just a phone, don't buy an N900.

The N900 is much more than that.
I can't begin to tell you the things I can do with my N900 that I couldn't
do with a smartphone.

Wouldn't swap it for any phone.

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I am well aware that the n900 is more than a phone its kind of obvious really

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it works fine if you mod the battery for have longer life, and fix the usb port so it doesnt fall out, and the applications you need are in the repos, it actually works pretty perfectly. and the way it does it is pretty damn nice too, ah i miss my n900 :/

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look my friend I'll say in a nutshell, the N900 is not a phone is a computer that can be exploited to the fullest, I write from experience. 8 reflash I throw my monster, the internet speed is incomparable, games you want on the PSX, N64 pes02 rally 2.0 in Mario Kart 64, finally a beast. my wife buy a android xperia neo v, pardon the exprecion respectfully sucks, you can not more than three aplicacione Terner strong open and locked. must remove the cover and the battery and turn it back on, we're talking about a phone, 2011 with 512ram, and now with the work of community ssu thumb the N900 is a jewel who knows what is in the hands that it is valued everything is just .........

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This one is the one that never go old, :)

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if its good today, well, its up to you...

It cant compeate when it comes to video, web content. But i still use my n900 more than my n9, but just for fun and for the hw keyboard.

But cant compete with galaxy note since i love big screens. Dont love android but can live with it. If you can find a cheap n900 buy it, otherwise wait for galaxy note 2. Announced later this month, Its a beast. :D

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When it comes to smartphones, they will always be better, faster, nicer and so on, but the n900 will stay one of a kind forever :P

Depends what you want and what you mean by powerful phones. A n900 can be a truly powerful device if you know what youre doing. I myself prefer more unique. Had my n900 since the beginning ( nothing broke, usb intact, overclocked at 1.15ghz for almost 1.5 years in southern california ) now plan on buying a new n9 :D still keeping my n900 though :)

Fun to be special and not see an iphone, or galaxy everywhere you look :)

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Depends on what you want to do with your device. Both are very capable but I'd go with a N9 since it's newer, has NFC and imho looks more sleek. Also, n9 UI rocks - using it is like riding an awesome rainbow-filled star unicorn against badass explosion in the background, with Morgan Freeman providing commentary (side note: your experience may vary).

However, try to list your 'must have' features of a phone and see if you don't require n900 for some of them instead of n9 (like better office package or hw keyboard).

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just a day ago ,blue maemo got a lot people convinced when my friend was trying to scroll up sitting close to my laptop and i was over the next sofa ,sliding the scroll downwards with my N900,my friend was so annoyed with that ,lol.N900 is fun totally ,apart from slowness of the handset .It is definitely pretty slow and it lacks many apps too .But it is also true that whoever owns it,knows it ,falls in love with this great innovation .just buy it ,there is still nothing like N900.

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If you want a device to tinker with, then the N900 is unique (as
others have said).

If you'd like to get a phone that just works and has all the new and
snazzy features and slick interfaces to major web services, you might
want to look elsewhere. Except for the generous 32 GB of internal
memory, the specs on the N900 are inferior to today's mid range
Android devices, which can be bought without a contract for under
$200.

I got an N900 because it was unlocked and had a full Linux userspace.
It was thus easy to chroot into another distro (first easy debian, now
archlinux arm) so I could use the phone as a pocket laptop. I was
hoping to port Linux applications to the N900, but decided that this
would be a waste of time once Nokia abandoned Maemo/Meego.

I'm still very happy with the N900 and hope to be able to use it for
at least two more years. If I were in the market for a phone today, I
would likely buy an Android phone that's easy to root; I would still,
of course, chroot into a Linux environment on the phone so I could run
emacs. But I would also keep an eye on what Jolla is up to.

Re: I wanted to know if the n900 is still a good phone today
 

It is not a good phone. : /
never was tbh.

it has other virtues though

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Buying a N900 will mean this :
1) You won't get cutting edge games
2) You won't get all the cutting edge apps
3) You won't get all the official apps from newspaper, movies website and any other stuff which, from my point of view, are or might be of some interest for day to day use
4) No full smoothness. That to be said, a lot of work has been done to improve and is still under progress, but we'll never reach what an Iphone is able to achieve in terms of smoothness. Honestly I don't care.

BUT you'll get most of the really needed apps for a smartphone. By the way, most companies (if not all) now provide a mobile version of their website so in the end it answers #3 needs.
You should consider #1 and #2 then. See if you really need these "cutting edge" stuff. #4 is not really a matter of concern now that thumb2 + overclocking is here imo

From my point of view, N900 outperform the other smartphones because of these features :
- FM transmitter
- FM receiver
- Hardware Keyboard
- Hacker stuff (wifi cracking, and ??)
- Multi boot
- MicroSD (lol Iphone), you just get 32GB + an extra 32GB as external memory....
- USB Host Mode : connect your HDD or camera to your N900 via USB
- Easy Debian : a full Desktop Linux distribution inside Maemo
- and probably a lot of other things but it's getting late here so I will stop now

You can do a lot of things with your N900 you won't be able to achieve with other smartphones (even with N9). But the other way is true either, you will be able to do things with iOS or Android you won't be able to do with an N9 or N900.

And yes we keep having core updates thanks to a lot of very talented people among the Maemo community. And I will dare say among the Meego, Nemo and Tizen community too.

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Buying an N900 means:
- you will never be able to record stutter-free videos.

Of course, you will be able to do many other things.

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I just bought an N900. Not interested in the cutting edge if what Ive heard about this device is true.

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I would like to thank everyone who posted on the tread,

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It has android (eww) and has zero portabilty...
also no hw qwerty

so, why comparing note to N900?

apples vs oranges my man

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Vlad_on_the_road pretty much summed up the story of the N900.

I purchased a N9 a few months ago, but now find myself using the N900 again. My batteries are near end-of-life, but aside from that, my device has held up (even after taking it apart a few times).

The N900 will be very slow to respond if you ask too much from it. I don't even bother browsing the web on-device anymore, unless I'm using lynx. If you are very strong with the linux command line, you will not be able to put this device down.

My current draw to the N900 is it's ability to connect to Nomachine NX (remote desktop). I have a customized version of NX that I ssh into (behind a VPN), where I run all of my applications. Windows RDP support is pretty good, but quite a bit slower.