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	sachin007	2009-09-25 , 20:45
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Originally Posted by Dexter1759

My god there are some sarcastic replies amongst these! lol!

I just wanted to know if there was anything significant, but not necessarily obvious, I had missed.

Also, I realise the N95 doesn't have a digital compass, I phrased that badly in my previous post.

So far the only thing I've read that concerns me, is the lack of google maps app, I've seen some videos that seem to have a google maps widget on the desktop, does that not open up the google maps app? Or does it open Google Maps in the web browser?

Hey Dexter,

I have a n95-8gb and a n810. If you never used a maemo device, you will be blown away by the usability of the n900 when compared to the n95.

Anyway here is what you will miss in the n900 in comparision to the n95 8gb:

1. At&T 3G. May be big issue if you still want to stay on AT&T
2. Google maps. Nokia has Ovi maps but it is not as good as the google maps because even routing is not free on ovi maps. And the ability to search locally for something is really awesome on google maps. I hope google will port a version very soon or maemo mapper will somehow enable local search and routing.
3. N-gage games. There is no DRM so no N-gage.
4. Bluetooth tethering AFAIK is not officially supported by nokia but i assume work is being done to get it start working right from the start by the community
5. MMS
6. Hardware keys for task switching.
7. Nokia pc suite? I am not sure about this one.

But when compared to what you will gain.... i can write pages. But it would be fun to learn the limitless possibilities of Maemo.

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