A few questions before ordering my N900
 

Hi All,

I'm pretty much ready to order my N900, but just have a few small minor questions.

As a long time Nokia N series user (N70,N95 8Gb are my last two phones), is there anything I should be aware of that I might have missed regarding the N900. I know it can't currently do MMS (though I saw a post yesterday about being able to send them via email but can't for the life of me find the post now!!), but I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything obvious.

Does anyone know what post I was on about with regards to the MMS work around, I simply cannot find it (I thought I'd bookmarked it), it had links to a website showing the email suffix's for each mobile operator.

One more question I can't find the answer to, do we know if the N900 will have an iPlayer app like the other N series phones, or will the web browser be capable of using the iplayer website? In either case, will downloads be available?

Many thanks, Dex

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

I think for your first question, it would be more helpful to know what you need from the n900 rather than asking what is missing.

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

Sorry, perhaps I should have rephrased it a little, basically other than the lack of MMS and digital compass, what else is the N900 missing that the N95 8GB can do?

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

it can't take low quality snapshots/video like the n95


there is no t9 support in the n900


no dual sliding also

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

- fit into a slim pair of jeans
- cant use 3G on At&T in USA
- a single click to answer a call
- use google maps app which is light years ahead of Nokia maps
- joikuspot type application to turn the n900 into a wifi hotspot
- hopefully the battery life usage is not worse than N95 8GB with the same usage
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Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

Well N95 8gb doesn't have a compass, so you won't be losing anything there..

The big question for me over my N95, is the amount of software which will be available for the N900.. I haven't yet seen a list of programs, that'll come out for the N900.

I also hope that there'll be a proper gps application for the N900, with voice guidance.

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

source?

last i heard ovi maps got local storage for maps so you can use it offline etc, but maybe google maps got that now?

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

Maemo Downloads catalogue for Maemo 4 is a quite good indication what will be available quite soon after N900 ships (as existing Maemo developers port their software to Maemo 5).

On a bit longer term I'd expect N900 to have a wider range of software available than the older Internet Tablets as new hardware features (and the phone!) will make it more appealing towards end users, and so also towards developers.

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

I meant the convenience of having a physical button just to answer and make a call. Not sure how that resistive screen is going to behave for false calls/pickups while in pocket.

In USA, the Nokia maps are a joke, they are not accurate and I simply cannot search to find anything. I've maybe used it twice in 3 years when I needed to lookup offline

Google maps still needs to be online though

Re: A few questions before ordering my N900
 

What do you mean by "low quality" exactly? Smaller images? Less megapixels?