Thread: well respected reviewer "eldar" throwing caution to N900
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2009-09-26 , 11:14
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#389
Originally Posted by quingu View Post
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!
I don't know ANYTHING about Linux or programming. I'll tell you that! But I'm excited about this device because it has lots of possibilities. It's multi-tasking, has a great UI. It has my NECESSARY features:
Always On instant messaging.
Push Email (either via idle imap, or activesync / exchange type).

The thing would make me return this phone is if the battery life doesn't surpass 4-5 hours. But so far, people were stating 12-13 hours with wifi and 3g on. I don't use wifi too much (i'll use it to update the files on the device, plug it into a charger and drag over about 3 gigs of music or videos). And 3g I can def. live without since all I'll use the phone for is videos, music, chatting and emailing. I know there are better devices for messaging, but to be honest, I've been a blackberry user for 4 years, and I've had a ton of devices since then, too. The BB OS hasn't changed AT ALL in the past 4 years. Since 4.1 to 5.0 there isn't too much that's new and it's kind of boring. I feel archaic using it. The Maemo 5 OS looks to offer some bling bling to the OS .