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Originally Posted by lefteyecc View Post
Hey guys I found a pretty cool article written just today regarding one user's experience with the N900. You can can find it here http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/10/1...te-about-n900/

Pretty interesting especially considering he's still using a pre-release device, and apparently not the final model.
some (p)reviews argue about lack of apps widgets etc of a device thats atm only shipped about 400- times and not out on the market for sale!

the n900 is a nice special tech savvy and will start to glow in my hands once it is shipped but I doubt that some of the kiddy style fashion victims apple points to will buy a n900 for the same reasons I do!

I read as many (p)reviews as I could find via google and maemo-talk and seriously the more I read the more I am pissed about the lack of intelligence, also the talking in here about "missing that and missing this" the device is on pre-order and nokia will do its best to get it as good as possible within this month till release, or do you think there is another reason for keeping it back another month instead of "public made nokia aware of serious lack of features needed to have it more phone like" (I know most of the nxx0 guys would'nt bother). for a proper smartphone-tablet there are some features missing known as MMS, an island, portrait mode and keyboard and other stuff, but believe me its just software and for linux its just a missing file!

the thread-name: "...apparently not" for me its not a phone and its not perfect... yet! what is perfect is related to what you are in need of and what you expect it to be to solve problems you wouldnt have without it. its not in my hands yet but I can tell if I should choose between 500eur n900 and a gifted iPhone 3GS, I choose the n900. why? (OSS vs Jail).

I see the points of people complaining about lack of this and that but I dont get why any lack of software is a reason to not buy this device. AFAIK there will be at least one freaking nerd who is pissed of not having some feature and spends some nights on coding-forking-recompiling to solve this! I for one want all this uploading pictures thing doing resize and watermarking on my pictures and upload it to my site instead of some google-nokia-commercial service. I havent thought of solving this yet, there might be one who could do that in a few hours and will do, or it will take me some days to figure out how or you have a solution ready.. I dont know but there will be one and thats not a single case. if there is a problem and you cant/wont solve it yourself, ask the community to make this device as feature-rich as you want it to be and maybe some people say "hey good idea I want that on my nXXX too! how can I help?" thats the way OSS development works, sometimes its fast sometimes not, but at least there is development you can help with even if you just send some coffee to your favourite dev-team!
 

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