Thread: N900 vs N8
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Originally Posted by tzsm98 View Post
If you've been using your N900 for more than a couple of months here is what you might expect:
  • Where's the keyboard?
  • Where's the rest of that web page?
  • Where's the terminal?
  • Where's the fourth desktop?
  • Why am I being told Conversations can't open because there is not enough memory when the only thing running is the F-Secure app?
  • Why didn't the N900 battery last this long between charges when I was using it lightly?
  • Integrated MMS! Wow, that cool.
  • These photos rock.
  • How did they get everything to work in Ovi Suite?
  • How come it is so hard to get exactly the item I want clicked?
  • Wow, this is a skinny phone even with the camera bump.
  • Is it actually possible to go without a screen protector with the gorilla glass?
  • Look, Ma, I got to my microSD without removing the battery cover.
Take the N8, sell it on eBay, buy two N900s. That way you are covered. Or, try to talk them into an E7, which has a keyboard. Then you can sell the E7 if you don't like it.

I own both an N8 and an N900. I took them both on a two and a half week trip. If the N8 didn't take such great photos I would have shipped back home so as to not have to carry it.

It was frustrating to use because of out of memory issues and non-interchangeable battery issues. It had the nasty habit of not lasting until I got back to the hotel leaving me to guess my way about cities I had never been to before in a country where I did not speak the language. Relied more on the wife's 5800 Xpressmusic for navigation after 4 pm than I did the N8.

I have a back-up N900, using now while my primary is in the shop for USB replacement. I would not even consider the N8 as being so integral to what I do with a phone that I would need a backup. If the N8 quits I'll get out my N78 until I see something I want.
Out of memory issues? You must have been doing something wrong. The only time I have seen out of memory issues is when I had too many apps open OR one or two that took up way too much ram. Symbian handles ram diferrently than maemo. Maemo will run apps until you lock up the phone, never telling you that your are out of memory. Symbian tells you before you slowdown the the phone using ram hogging apps or just forgetting to close apps.

Simple to fix. close app that is hogging resources. Usually web browsers and system affecting apps are the ram hogs. The out of memory experience varies from user to user and app to app. Please dont make it seem like an OS issue and have him assume he will be getting out of memory errors left and right.

Ive had 3 out of memory errors since Dec2010 and it was because of poor app management. I knew I was going to run out of ram. I just closed the offending app, Opera Mobile at the time, and kept playing Need for speed shift.