Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2007-12-03 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I am honestly very happy with the form that the N810 is in. To be honest, most of my concerns are software related. I would be pleased if the N900 mirrored the N810 hardware very closely.

I think the biggest change to the N900 should indeed be software. Maemo seems like a great platform, though its far from being perfect. Additionally, key applications should be improved dramatically (eg. MPlayer should be standard).
I could not agree more. When evaluating N810 against competitors, two things stuck out:

-- N810 is a great piece of hardware
-- N810 really lags in software

In my opinion, the hardware makes the N810 a potentially great PIM, media viewer/player, GPS, and eMail client. These are all well-established "killer apps" with large markets. The only thing preventing the N810 from competing in (and possibly leading) these markets is the software.

I know there is 3rd party software, which is certainly useful. However for such important applications there should be a much better out-of-box experience. I wonder what Blackberry's market would be like if they had suggested people find and install their own email client, or if Palm suggested people wait until someone else developed a PIM application.

The ROI for Nokia here must be huge. I really can't get my head around why they haven't done it.