Thread: A few questions before ordering my N900
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Dexter1759 is offline Dexter1759
2009-09-26 , 07:11
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#29
Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
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.
Thanks for your reply, sachin007.

Luckily the AT & T thing doesn't bother me since I'm in the UK. Out of interest why can't you use 3G on AT&T?

I will miss Google Maps, hopefully there will be an app for it eventually, or the website version will work nicely in the browser at least.

Never used N-Gage, so that doesn't bother me, but is the lack of DRM system wide, or just games? i.e. no DRM would mean no iPlayer downloads!!

The Bluetooth bothers me a little but not too much, it's not something I use that much so I can live without it, or find/use a work around.

The MMS is my biggest bug bear (sp?), though like I say I'm sure I saw a post on here recently showing how to email an MMS using someones telephone number, but I can't find it now to test it out!

Not sure how much the lack of hard keys will bother me until I use it.

Isn't Nokia PC Suite, now Ovi suite? Haven't used it for ages tbh, but I'm sure I've read about contacts/calendar syncing, so there must be something.

Overall, I'm confident the N900 is better (or going to be better), than my N95.

Oh, also, someone said that the N95 takes rubbish photos, since the N900 and N95 have a similar 5megapixel, the photo quality isn't an area of concern. My N95 take excellent daytime pictures!