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Hi twigleaf1976, you're making good points here. I wish you don't mind I bring points from other perspective, just for discussion.

Originally Posted by twigleaf1976 View Post
Anything that you buy that only does basics AFTER you download something you would consider half finished. That in itself is a bug IMHO, a problem and well worth pointing out to anyone that needs or wants to buy this phone. Buy a BMW but you have to download and apply later the air con, central locking, electric windows and back seats. The kind of thing every other decent car provides
Windows comes along with outright crappy word processor (wordpad) and a lousy image editor (mspaint). So can we say Windows can't do better job in word processing and image editing because it doesn't provide the best things by default? You know the answer.

The key is whether you consider N900 as a phone or as a computer. Please read on.

Vodaphone and Expansys (Main UK suppliers) sell it as a phone. So somewhere that message is being ignored. If you buy it as a phone, have it sold as a phone, listed with other phones and actually titled as a phone. You expect a phone.

How is Nokia marketing the N900 ? Is it a phone ?
It is sold as a mobile computer with the Internet in its heart, and it was introduced as 'step 4 of 5' for tech leaders / lovers. If you want a mature Nokia mobile phone with extensive Java support and full SIM features then there are plenty of choices based on Series40 and Symbian. I think Nokia has been clear on that since http://maemo.nokia.com was launched this Summer.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia) (http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_realistically_expect)


Nokia does sell N900 as a mobile computer. I'm sorry that it failed your expectation, but it's just not sold as a phone, only.

I want a tablet PC with cellular communication capability running Linux. Nokia makes a product I really want so I buy it and am happy with it. You expect something else, so your disappointment is understood.

Last edited by 9000; 2010-05-19 at 15:58.