Indeed, and that's what happened to me.


I purchased my very first Nokia N900 around April 2010 this year, since I live in New Zealand, the phone isn't out yet (and still isn't out now), so i had to go online to buy it. Us New Zealanders use this website called Trademe to buy/sell stuff online, it's just the same as Ebay but much safer because only New Zealanders with a verified house address can use it.

ANYWAY, all the N900 on sale were over 900+ (in New Zealand dollars), the cheapest i found was $899 which includes a free screen protector, a free battery and a car charger. It's still really expensive to me, but i really liked its design and wanted a better phone with a bigger screen, and that has a hardware keyboard. I wanted to upgrade from my HTC Touch Pro to something better, and only want phones with hardware keyboard, and N900 was hands-down the best choice. So despite the expensive price, i paid for it anyway.

Then, i joined this community and did pretty much everything i could on the phone, i updated it to PR 1.2, tweaked it, overclocked it, installed 3GB+ worth of apps/games etc, and everything. It's a good community and all, but it just seems to lack so much more support than i expected. The OVI store sucks (face it), and most importantly this isn't a completed device to be honest. Nokia is more than likely gonna abandon this once Meego comes out, and it's that exact problem i feared.

Moreover, i couldn't justify the price i paid for since everyday i use it, i become more depressed thinking about how much i paid for it and whether i made the right choice and whether it was worth it.

So, i sold it after using for only 2 months.



BUT! I bought it back again! I still love it overall despite that it's still pretty much a non-finished or "prototype" phone if you will. It's still a good phone. BUT this time, i bought it for $600 (2nd hand but very very new and still has 10 months warranty), and i also got a free 16GB microSD card along with it as well. This is a big bonus to me since the 16GB microSD costs $130 NZD, and on the receipt it says the phone cost $1150 NZD.

The seller sold it for this cheap after using it for just 2 months as well, is because he wanted to get an iPhone. So he didn't care anymore about selling it this cheap.



Right now, at least i'm feeling justified and ok to buy it because it's cheap and that i still have the extra accessories from my first N900. My point is, the phone itself is too expensive (and still is, i was only lucky to buy it for $600), that's why not many people would justify buying it considering that everything is still being developed for it.


Compared to the Apple's APPSTORE, and the iDevices in general, the support really suck. For developers, there aren't any benefits for them to make apps/games for the N900 compared to making it for the iPhone. On the iPhone, you can find so much crap that it's unbelievable and amazing at the same time. I own an iPod Touch (jailbroken), and it's amazing the amount of things i can do with it. In fact, i'll be honest, i actually like my iPod Touch MORE than my N900 in terms of the apps/games and everything else it can do. I installed so much crap on it, i have over 20GB+ of stuff downloaded for it, and almost anything the N900 can do, my iPod Touch can do as well. And compared to the N900, the iPod Touch is way cheaper. I bought mine brand new for $250, so that's how big of a difference there is. SURE it's not a phone, but that's the only difference, i use it so much for music, gaming (GBA emulators etc), check my bus/train timetables, photos, my UNI lecture timetables, using Cydia etc etc. There's just so much more. From just Cydia and all those repos itself, showed more support than what Nokia or the Maemo community could ever reach.

But the only reason y i bought the N900 is coz i love its texting and MicroB browser, but generally i use my iPod Touch for all the apps/games etc.


So ya, sorry for this long post and i'm not trying to put anybody off, but seriously, don't many of you have that feeling deep down in your hearts, where you sometimes wonder whether the price you paid for is really worth it? Compared to the APPSTORE, it really does lack support. But ya, i still love it.