Thread: well respected reviewer "eldar" throwing caution to N900
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2009-09-26 , 11:04
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Originally Posted by beatmag View Post
N900 isn't a mass market device.
1.too heavy
2.too thick

a mass market device needs to sell truck loads.

your average joe isn't going to like taking out a brick from his pockets.

having said that, n920 could potentially be a mass market device. given they make it THIN, and <150grams
Gee, I hope they stay away from the mass market just a little bit longer. If you want to see the mass market variant of the n900, look at the 3gs. It's slim, has similar hardware - and is totally closed up, dumbed down and inferior in every way.

A device which has Xterm out of the box is NOT supposed to be for the "mass market". Imagine the service nightmare for nokia if those people who spend 100 dollars on apps that display the content of a beer glass on their cellphone or can make burping and pooping sounds - if those people would go wild on xterm because "the friend of a friend told them a special code that can double the jiggahurtz of da phone" - *shiver*... Nokia would remove your console faster than you could spell "jailbreak".

dumb phones for the masses, and elite devices for me!
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