Thread: How long are you planning on keeping your n900 for?
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2010-07-23 , 22:07
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Originally Posted by breakd0wn View Post
Just curious on how long most of you plan on keeping your n900's for?

Are you planning on jumping on the 1st nokia meego device right away? Looking at something else? Or maybe keeping the n900 for a while still?

I personally love this device. Think I'm going to keep it for a while. Unless the 1st nokia meego device is something spectacular.
I took a long time deliberating before I purchased the N900. My requirements being keyboard, "real browsing," extensible, e-mail and social media options, eBook reader, camera, music player, WiFi, Bluetooth, external display option, expandable memory, and synchronization with OS X.

The N900 isn't cheap, but I plan to use it for at least two years unless something considerably better comes along. After that, the N900 becomes a backup for whatever usurps it.

Still using some of my old cellphones as backup GPS devices and alarm clocks....

Even if I stop using the N900 I will still hang on to it. I think it is an interesting historical device - something that few other manufacturers have attempted. Nokia got some things wrong, but it is a worthy and interesting experiment. I don't want future devices to be locked, I don't want Google to control my cellphone.