okay okay, i think a few of you have missed the point here. i am surrounded with all the latest mobiles. i own a n9. i bought it. why? i believe it can be greater than anything on the market.
what parts of the n9 and n900 am i comparing? basic out of the box functionality. clock, sms, contact list, music player, video player. every phone has these. who uses these core system apps? everyone. its comparing apples with apples *ahem*. how is this being negative or bitter? put your open source defender of the free world banners away for a moment. i even compared to android and ios.

i fully agree that the n9 device itself is pretty stunning visually. it looks sleek and space age. but that doesnt make it good. thats aesthetics. they put some time into that obviously as they are launching it as the windows phone too.

the ui swipe experience is something new too. its fast. its responsive. its interesting. im double tapping every screen to activate now.
but the other point i tried to raise was the n900 with keyboard closed is exactly the same as the n9, as with any other keyboardless android device and an apple. the n900 can be fully navigated with only the touch screen with only a few touches to get anywhere. the n9 ui experience doing the exact same things even with the all *new* swipe ui is painful. this is how i tested that part of it. currently the n9 swipe ui is cumbersome and gimmicky. i tested how much swiping was needed to be done to do the same on n9 <> n900 to see if there was a difference either way. try it for yourself side by side. the n9 ui could be minimum swipe friendly but its not. they missed the boat (the titanic? lol) on that one. and the 'fact' that the n9 is going to be the only meego device with support for the next 3 years means that the hardware like the n900 will be woefully obsolete quickly, no matter how flashy the outside of it looks. but the n900 ui will still be faster to use/navigate and android/apple phones will leap ahead in functionality.


@strange1712
thats what i thought too but they crippled the n950 ram wise


@Manatus
my idea for incoming phone calls still stands. if in your pocket or what not the proximity censor is still on so cant accidentally hang up or swipe away.

on your n9 open the browser and enter the url http://maps.google.com and click classic view (not mobile view). what just happened there? works fine on n900/htc desire/iphone4. sure the new browser is fast but its no good if it locks while rendering pages. it doesnt like iframes and renders tables with graphic fragments.