Thread: Some questions before I buy the N900
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hackm0d is offline hackm0d
2010-06-11 , 21:38
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Originally Posted by terryowen View Post
If the N900 is going to be your main browsing device, you might not be happy. It's great for a smartphone and if I were traveling for a while it would be enough but for the money you might be better off with a cheaper phone and a netbook.

I don't think an iPod Touch would be that much better than the N900. There's almost as much space for media on the Nokia and it has a keyboard and camera. Most recent phones, even cheap ones, double as decent music players, anyway.

Apps are another story. Is there something you think you can't live without? Certain games that have specific clients? Word processing or programming needs? I think you said you were a student so the larger screen and storage, as well as usb peripherals might be the wiser choice.

I gave my daughter my netbook but I still have access to desktops at home and work, as well as an old laptop so I don't miss it. But being dependent on one device for internet, phone, media, etc. seems workable only if you are extremely motivated and prepared to risk being without anything if you drop your phone, or it's stolen or whatever.

It's good that you weigh the options. Maybe the MeeGo netbook, when it comes out? :-)

Terry
Thanks for understanding my dillemma

In some ways the N900 almost seems too good for me. If the money was in my hands I'd impulse buy it immediately. The thought of browsing (nearly) the full web, listening to my music, downloading stuff via BitTorrent, watching movies thanks to the enormous storage and using it as a phone seems like an amazingly exciting prospect. It'd be so much more portable (and modular) than a netbook if I could whip out a bluetooth keyboard, connect a TV cable and use it just as I would a normal netbook.

However, this thing is costing me near $560 in my country. I'm getting a pretty well specified notebook here - which I admit isn't as portable - for $200 more. (I assume you're in the US, so using local currency)

For that extra $200 I put obsolescence completely at bay since laptops usually last six or seven years from a technical standpoint, get around 15 times more storage and all the flexibility of a PC, except the portability. And that alone is crucial to me. I cannot bear to live with my Nokia E90's browsing and MP3 playback on it's 330MHz processor for longer, and since this is my last major purchase for quite some time, I'll have to live with it a few years more. The N900 would be my internet browser, music player, plaything and utility device, but buying a laptop would mean buying all of those separately.
Last edited by hackm0d; 2010-06-11 at 21:44.