Thread: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!
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2009-09-01 , 01:51
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Does the N900 support sending and receiving color faxes? Because if it doesn't, that's a major setback, and a real dealbreaker for me.

Many lawyers and realtors will accept signed documents if they are faxed, but not if they are e-mailed. The N900 needs an application that allows you to receive a fax of a document, annotate it, sign it, and then send it back.
Very witty of you but, the point is, that people use their phones to send MMS.
As far as I am concerned it is one of the things that I check for on a mobile phone. (Wait! No, I don't because I actually take for granted that any phone I buy does have it. I laughed a lot at the people that bought that 1st Generation iPHONE for the lack of it and one of the reasons why it didn't strive in many markets was... yes you guessed it: the lack of MMS capabilities amongst other things)

Why is this a major setback for me? Because I use it all the time: It doesn't cost me a thing to send one, it doesn't cost a thing to the person receiving it unlike sending a picture by e-mail (both parties will have to make a network access thus spending data from their plan)

This is just my opinion as a user of Nokia Devices for the last 10 years and that uses the E71 for work and pleasure.

I think that the N900 is a great device but before I was aware of this I was ready to pre-order it from Germany and now I am not so sure.

As for the fax capabilities ... I never received or sent a fax in my life. That is too 90s for me and I never saw the logic in turning something analog into digital and back again into analog only to pick up the phone and ask if it had arrived well ;-)
Last edited by Zargon; 2009-09-01 at 02:06.
 

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