Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
Toyota makes great vehicles, so does BMW. I would buy either over a Chevy any day. What's your point?
If you'd read my reply, you'd have seen the point. My point, put simply, is that the OP is saying "there is no support", when in fact there has been, and continues to be support. Period. Full stop. End of Line. FACT.

You then stepped in saying X has better support than Nokia, which means Nokia has no support. Saying X provides better service than Nokia is fine. Saying Nokia provides no service because X's service is so good is factually wrong. X's service providing skills have no bearing whatsoever on the fact of if Nokia provides support or not.

Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
Fact: Nokia released a device with software that was not finished. Period. It is missing features that anyone would expect from a smartphone. Period. They have bungled any sort of OVI support, from ovi services integration, to the ovi store. Full stop.
This has nothing to do with service. They said right on the box what functionality it had. Your expectations of what a "smart phone" should have may have not been in line with this tablet computer does, but again, this has nothing to do with service. And last I looked, there's plenty of support with the OVI suite, and in the OVI store.


Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
Don't try and say it's not a phone, it's a mobile computer, because if the N900 is a mobile computer, then so is every other high end smartphone which has more features and functionality.
It's a computer, with a phone app. And no, not every other high end smartphone is a computer. Can you do ray tracing on an iPhone? Can you do on-device video editing, and/or format conversion (ala ffmpeg) on your android phone? No. Because they're not computers, they're phones.

Do you think netbooks or device like the nook should have all the features of a smartphone just because they have a SIM card slot? Why do you think this tablet computer should have all the features of a smart phone because it has a SIM card? (Besides your inability to read, as per above...) The N900 was designed as a tablet first, and had the phone bits added on. It's focus was on mobile data usage, and maybe basic phone usage, which it does quite well. The bigger problem has been vendors touting it as a phone, when in fact that is NOT what this model line is about.

Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
Is it really worth the money when you could buy a Motorola and get major software updates?
I didn't buy the N900 based on what I hoped it would some day do. I bought it based on what it said it was capable of already doing. And in case you haven't noticed, let me point out again that we've had two major and one minor software updates already, in under a year. How long has the Droid been out? How many updates has it seen?