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Originally Posted by afaq View Post
- Apple know how to look after their customers.

Yes thats true because their customers are paying them for everything. From ringtones, useful apps, replacement batteries etc. You are locked inside apple's world. You give money, they give service.

Nokia is for most part free for life. After buying every nokia device i've yet to pay nokia for anything else. Bought replacement batteries from 3rd suppliers (and changed it myself! shock), create my own ringtones, wallpapers (Glad OS4 can finally have wallpapers), and the excellent maemo developer community chug out new app's every week. Free!.

- at least *try* the iPhone, will cost you nothing

Er yes. Nothing? except your pennies on a daily basis. Also lets not forget what you will lose. (Assuming you actually like open standards?).
But yes most customers just want pretty looking interfaces with minimal functionality but stable apps. Iphone 4 has excellent hardware but it's OS remains the same (folders are not revolutionary, nor is multi tasking).

Android is excellent too for a consumer who sits inbetween these two devices. Though i do seriously believe N900 is only really appreciated and loved by a few. It will remain in my mind a handset/maemo OS that re-ignited my love for nokia . I know, I know. Hate Nokia but they did bring us N900 and Maemo.
hmmm where to start....

"Yes thats true because their customers are paying them for everything. From ringtones,useful apps, replacement batteries etc."

THOUSANDS of free ringtones, nada, zip, nowt, free !!!!!!, there was a thread here yesterday a guy asking would you play $1 for a n900 theme.....hmm imagine paying for content/apps !!!

" useful apps, " - again more FREE apps than you would believe, sky news, sky sports news, espn news, met office weather, autotrader, share tracker, XE Currency convertor...I think you bringing up apps was a bad idea.

"Also lets not forget what you will lose. (Assuming you actually like open standards?). " like the open standards the n900 supports ???? that would be caldav / Imap IDLE / Funambol etc ??

"replacement batteries etc"....will nokia give me a free battery for my n900 and 5300 ?????

" You give money, they give service."....exactly, and thats how I like
it, with nokia it was "i give money"........and well thats about it really, nothing in return for my cash.

"and the excellent maemo developer community chug out new app's every week. Free!." hmmm....show me one actually paying for and I'll buy it.

The new iphone os 4.0 is FREE to even the older 3g iphones, although no multitasking due to hardware constraints, but it is this level of support that Nokia can only dream of, patiently we waited MONTHS for the utterly rubbish pr1.2, theres no comparison

Can I ask how many people here who slate iphone actually OWN one ???? I own both n900 and 3gs, so I can make comparisons. The fanbois on here can't see the n900 is a dead project, nokia are selling in India and anywhere else to clear their stockroom out, their intentions for n900 have been made crystal clear.

No dont I will be flamed for this, but all the above is the TRUTH and FACTS, but some/alot of n900 owners are in denial.