Thread: N900 - Yes, it sucks.
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-11-27 , 20:32
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#477
Originally Posted by iJanne View Post
Thusly, I would point my energies at communicating to Nokia and to the community:

1. Why and where the N900 sucks as the mobile computer that it is supposed to be. We need to improve where things are lacking, so that this can be the ultimate mobile computer (with a phone) at the moment.

2. How the N900s successors should be improved to make them truly consumer-ready smartphones for the consumer space. Also, as byproduct, ask that such software features be rolled back into the N900 as an added bonus - and a way to advance all things Maemo.

That would seem like a reasonable, constructive way to approach this, in my opinion.
1) As a computer, the N900 sucks because it is too slow, too limited, and the screen is too small for anything but web browsing. As a successor to the N810, it's fine, but the N810 is basically a PDA. My N810 replaced an old Palm TX and, besides the faster processor and better screen, doesn't have any more capabilities.

If Nokia wishes to release a mobile computer, Nokia (not the Maemo community) needs to, at a minimum, upgrade the processor, put Firefox (not just Fennec), OpenOffice, Java, and the current Adobe Flash on the device out of the box, and increase the screen to at least 4.5 inches.

2) As a smartphone, Nokia needs to produce a device that, out of the box, does everything that both the iPhone and Droid both do and, ideally, it should do everything either the iPhone and Droid do. Actually, since the device will not be available for some time, it will have to do what the equivalent devices do at the time it is released.

Again, this needs to be out of the box. Consumers don't need or want to be told that some open source developer is working on it. They expect that the manufacturer will provide it.