...Picked up a SIM card with CMCC on day 1 of the trip Turned on GPRS (I guess ChinaTelecom has 3g?) Day 2 sucked my prepaid card dry
- so I bought another 100 RMB and was much more careful about data usage. It lasted 2 weeks. The killer feature for me during this trip was the chat and skype integration. Particularly the chat as I could chat as I was traveling all over the country. The camera was excellent - used it much more than I thought I would Email was good - but not as good as my old blackberry (except that it supports html) The offline maps were great - I would download all the maps from my hotel and then use them as needed. However where are the Chinese characters on the street names? Google Maps has them. Added Skype for $3 a month to North America Skype over GPRS was not great Skype over wifi from Starbucks worked ok in the morning and then didn’t work at all later Once I hit Hong Kong I picked up the SIM from 3 100 HK dollars including 150 HK of browsing – Great Deal! 3G Speeds Skype over 3G worked pretty good Overall on the trip I saw a few iphone users, a few wind mobile users, lots of android users (more than iphone) and tons of nokia n95 users... Summary from my month of n900 features I would like/issues Wish it had a bigger screen - found myself squinting Battery could be a bit larger like the old days Chinese text entry should be nokia supported Installed scim Pdf reader: pdf reader interface should be like the browser pdf reader not finger friendly (page turn) no twist to zoom pdf reader plus button go to page Email: spell type ahead with apostrophes cleaner mail client Search? Photos: zoom on photos should be like the browser photos should default to camera directory or allow default (it forgets your setting) Contacts: Most google accounts don’t have email - but have a google chat!? isn't it the same!? Maps: Improve maps zoom offline etc (should be the same as the browser) Offline keeps prompting for access