Thread: Can someone tell me why N900 and not Android?
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c0rt3x is offline c0rt3x
2009-10-30 , 16:24
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Thanks for your opinions, and welcome to the forums!

Originally Posted by RenegadeFanboy View Post
As I'm using a HTC Hero right now, this is what I can tell you:
- multitask is nowhere near to Symbian or Maemo. It is up to Android to decide what it allows to run longer and for me it turns out to be the wrong decision more times than the right one.
(It closes apps when it shouldn't or keeps apps running, when they should shut down - draining the battery and running my roaming charges high.)
Agreed, nothing new to say here.

- Adobe Flash, although very close to what was shown for Maemo 5, still misses quite a few online video players. Not a big difference, but I prefer sg, which is closer to full web experience.
(Flash 10 was demoed first on the N900.)
Flash is at least a temporary advantage of Maemo 5/N900.

- the 5 MP camera (no photo flash!) is a toy, compared to the Carl Zeiss lens. My older 3 MP (CZ) lens make better pictures than the Hero's, not to mention that I can somewhat use it in the dark too.
Nothing new here either... HTC is known for crappy cameras. It's difficult to make your own, and since HTC doesn't have any professional help (like Carl Zeiss to Nokia), I wouldn't either except anything else.

Remember, HTC is too small for the most lens companies to even give a s#!t about them. And that would also raise the production cost of their phones, thus either lowering their profits, or raising the phones' prices, or both. That's not good business for any of the parts, neither the optical producer, nor HTC. That's also why they order cheap 3rd party lenses.

I don't want to convince you, as the rest is pretty much up to par b/w Android and Maemo - but I'm switching for the Nokia hardware and the multitasking from Android to Maemo.
Yeah, multitasking has always been the strength of the SupermaNs (the world has yet to see a third SupermaN, after the already existing SupermaN95 and SupermaN900 ).