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#74
I voted yes but it would also be a qualified yes. I mainly use mine as a pda at the moment.

Cons:
- Too big (I carry a large purse but the N79 goes in my jeans pocket) Transplant it to the 97-mini factor and it would be perfect.
- Battery life is seriously awful and I charge every night.
- Camera is awkward to use for small hands - the phone is slippery.
- Stupid QT 4.6.2 thing
- Meager apps market

Pros:
- Video rocks. One click update to codecs and I'm watching unconverted avi files as well as wmv. That is seriously awesome when you have a large collection from a Windows Mobile pda.
- Radio and TV out. Until I bought a Nokia phone I had no clue how cool that was.
- Shell, Python and Perl scripting. Perl on the command line just works; it's kind of old but for practicing one-liners, it's fun.
- Camera is pretty nice; 5 megapixels makes the barcode scanner just pop - it was so fast compared to the G1 I was actually kind of startled. And barcode scanning was why I bought a G1.
- 32 gigs _and_ a removable micro-sd slot. I hated having the G1's card permanently mounted due to Apps2SD. My WinMo phone card was swappable and easy to move photos, update songs, etc.
- DosBox/Bochs and Palm emulator. I've been using a pda since the Omnigo/HPLX/Visor days and have tons of ebooks.
- Conky - just because I'm a geeky grandma and it makes me happy.
- Gnumeric - all those work spreadsheets are viewable without paying for Office software.
- Finger and stylus usability. Hated the G1 finger only input. It's cold in Iowa in the winter time.

Neutral:
- Keyboard is kinda meh.
- Browser isn't great and the Firefox port is too big and slow; Nokia pushing how great the web on it is kinda dumb. The screen is too small. All phones are too small, even the holy iPhone.

I had wanted an N86 because of the camera but after using an N79 for six months, I realized that 5 vs. 8 megapixels wasn't that big of deal for me. Even if I end up buying another phone for daily use, I'll probably keep the N900 as a pda.

Terry
 

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