#AlMehdi, when I read posts like yours, I really thing something's wrong with my n900. I've though in doing a video of a normal "session" and to post here, to see if the behaviour is what must be expected or there's something wrong with me.

Having said that,

Sure. That was the BIG point of the n900, to be always connected to these services. This is what the n900 offers in comparison with the other phones. They can say a lot of characteristics, but then you say, hey, wait, somebody is calling me through skype. Yes, it is always running, THIS IS what a mobile phone is supposed to do presently, doesn't your iphone do it? what a shame.

You try to do it by 3G, the phone lasts 2/4 h. You install that magic widget, turn in 2G, and yeah, the battery is still poor but you're connected all the time, around 8 hours then (just being connected).

This was the situation ... before.

Yes you're right. But scientifically, I am comparing the overall feeling of the two devices.

BEFORE, the n900 had multi-task, permanent gtalk/skype connection, a browser really capable. The iphone had maps, much more speed, and vast amounts of software. Well, n900 won.

AFTER, here we have the iOS4. Guess what, the multi-task of the n900 is not so spectacular now, and they also start to be permanently connected. They still have maps (n900 hasn't, I'm too frustrated on this), a cam that works (forget the video mode if you are running the kernel ideal, at least in my case), and yes, the iphone has battery.

BATTERY, because they do not need to disable the 3G, because they do not need to overclock the device and is still 2x or 3x faster than the n900 (iphone 3gs), and because they don't need to reflash the device each month, or to reboot each week, to re-gain speed and stability.

Damn, each 5 minutes of navigation with 3G in the n900 is about a 10% of battery, and run afterwards to change again to 2G because you'll need the mobile in the afternoon. This stuff is inexistent in an iphone.

What should I do. To disconnect from these services? To be always in 2G? To put the brightness to 1? To downclock the kernel?? Then why I've bough the n900, if everything has to be off.

And well, after this experience with nokia, I'm really expecting that the next meego version will be too heavy for the n900. So I'm not going to have a better experience that what I already have now.


Having said that, I'm starting to thing that nokia has been always wanted to do a tablet rather than a mobile. So I'm truly anxious to see what they'll purpose eventually. But regarding the mobiles, I have serious doubts that my next 500€ will be given to nokia, again.

PD: To answer more precisely to you, what I say is, if nokia wanted to provide a device with these capabilities, they needed to be sure that his device could handle them in terms of velocity and of battery. The velocity of the n900 is too bad. The battery when you use these services is insufficient. So, I understand why the battery drains so fast. WHAT I don't understand is WHY nokia has sold this device and at that price if they didn't have any solution to this. It is just irresponsible.