Thread: nokia n9 vs the real world. - a realistic out of the box experience review
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Keferen is offline Keferen
2011-12-07 , 06:53
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Originally Posted by SamGan View Post
Although I've never owned the N900 I've read enough to know that it was not excellent out of the box as you claimed. The OS was incomplete, it was buggy and abandoned by Nokia. It was only due to the tremendous effort of the Maemo community that the N900 is such a usable product now.

So now you're dismissing the N9 and not giving it a chance to grow. Well, stick with your N900 for whatever useful years you can get out of it and hope that something even better comes along...out of the box of course.
for someone that owned a n900 from the start, i can tell you that the interface has had no physical changes over the 2 or 3 upgrade releases. out of the box it was logical and consistent system wide and remains that way to this day. it was not buggy on release as you say, and all the core apps that it came with worked perfectly and far superior out of the box than any phone to date. it was well rounded well thought through product at release, and before any feature apps were added to it.
even with 2 more years i guarantee it will still be far more useful than the n9.

the thing is, if any interface works well across the board consistently and the installed system apps work well then you get the impression you are running a well made OS, right ? no matter whats really going on behind the scenes. perfect example apple : ios.
the n9 is built on a quality OS, but swipe does not give guaranteed results and can be a little frustrating. but its quick! and gives the impression of power beneath... but the out of the box software (already mentioned) are beyond basic, more basic than android offerings although most feel like direct copies.
meego is technically superior than android by miles and will give ios a run for its money with enough limelight.

oh, and i will be sticking with my n900 for the fact (keyboards aside) everything is more difficult or non existent on the n9. even for the basics it should have shipped with considering nokia had the n900 as a resource. i guess nokia forgot about all that work they did.... i have to ask what the hell were they thinking?