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Originally Posted by cb474 View Post
I'm holding off on the N900 for a while.

The camera application is very incomplete and not up to the standards of other N series 5Mp phones. Also the video drops frames and is very choppy. Those are important features to me, so I want to wait and see if they get improved or not. I imagine this will take months.

I'm also hesitating on the price and whether I really want the additional cost of a data plan to use this phone the way it ought to be used. I love the idea of Maemo and that it's Linux. But I'm not sure if the geeky appeal justifies the extra expense to me.

There also seem to be some pretty serious bugs right now. Especially the widely reported problem of people experiencing frequent random reboots. And the email program seems to have some problems. I know every new device has bugs. But Maemo and the N900 seem to be more buggy than usual at this point in their development.

So I'm definitely in a wait and see mode. I want to see what future versions of firmware add. And I want to wait and see how much the bugs settle down. I imagine at some point, probably months from now, I won't be able to resist the N900 and it's Linux goodness. But I'll be happy to pay less and wait out the bugs.
Well, I'll let you know in the next few days what I think of mine. It will be delivered tomorrow. I've heard that in the past few weeks nokia has been releasing updates like crazy trying to get all these little bugs you're talking about taken care of so hopefully mine works well for the most part. I got mine from dell.com and will get the $50 back from nokia and $100 back from the 20% off from bing.com over thanksgiving so whenever i get those back i'll be sitting at $370 after tax. My friend also has an unreleased phone that currently has the 1700 band from t-mobile and we tested my sim card in his phone and were able to get 3g speeds with 1.7Mbps down. I believe t-mobile also has other internet packages that should work similarly without going for the full $30 or $35 package for having a high end phone.

This phone is nokia's baby and all the bugs definitely will get worked out. Also, the browser was developed for this phone, it should be pretty sweet from what i've heard.

Last edited by Powerglide08; 2009-12-08 at 01:46.