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Originally Posted by Comeonthesetup View Post
Oh oh.. i was just worried that i will be "lost in the wilderness" if i am not into geeky stuff. thx for clarifying..

I read Meego isnt officially supported by Nokia for the N900.. it is community-based. Of course i believe the active community here will do a good job, but wouldnt it be nice for Nokia to support it ?

What i want from a phone: ( a rough guideline ? )

Music and videos
Internet browsing
multi-tasking ( i usually open at least 4 apps on my N86 currently )
Gaming
ya that's what i mean by Nokia dropping the majority of its support for N900. They 99% most likely won't release Meego on it. They did announce they WON'T be releasing Meego for it, and apparently ppl said they changed their mind again, i'm not so sure but as far as i know, it's not confirmed atm and i'm assuming most likely not. You can only ever get so far with a community like this, we'll see how long we can survive but after using so many different phones for so long, i have a feeling that it's not gonna do too well, at least it's not gonna show any major development growth or improvement. Hell, when i was still using my Sony Ericsson W950i running UIQ3, i went through the entire 2 years watching it die. I tweaked that phone to the max, hacked it so much, and seen so many users left it. Eventually, SE sold the license or dropped it, and now it's open source but practically dead. The community still lingers on till this day, with 4 or 5 members left. That was 3 years ago btw, it's probably fully dead by now lol.


Well, u really can't use N900 for music, it dies too quickly. In fact, u can't use it much for almost everything. It's a powerful phone, but the battery life seriously dies too fukn quickly. I don't use it for anything other than txting. Otherwise it drains battery too quickly and i have to charge it often. That's y i use my iPod Touch as well, i listen to music for the whole day and never turned it off during the night, and continue the same thing the next day and charge it finally at night, so i can use it for a long time at least. Gaming on iPod Touch is decent as well, doesn't drain battery that fast and i can play 4 hrs straight on games such as Chaos Rings, which is quite intensive usage with great graphics.

Gaming on the other hand for N900, there aren't many good ones. I still think iPhone is more suitable for you based on your requirements.

4 apps should run fine in multi-tasking on iPhone 4 if u jailbreak it, and jailbreaking is legal now anyway so why not?? The only good ever comes out from the iPhone is by jailbreaking anyway so there's a 100% chance and perfect good reason y u should, no point not to do it so u'd definitely end up doing it anyway.



Originally Posted by anthonie View Post
I´d say that the few minutes you took to write that post including that "lame question" (quote) could have been used to fire up google or use the sesrch engine on this site. It´s exactly the reason why I would NOT advice you to get an N900. It is beyond my comprehension why you´d post a question you yourself consider to be lame despite of having thought about not doing so.

he at least provided a list of pros and cons from each phone, and u on the other hand just troll. I get ur point of view, but at least his post isn't as useless as 99% of the other ones where they literally didn't do any research before posting a question. If u dun wanna help, that's fine, but ur contributing unnecessary comments that just mark as spam.




Ya, one other thing i forgot to mention, this community usually consists of people that are pretty sarcastic and aggressive or just unhelpful. Not targeting at anyone in general as i myself sometimes do that, but not to the extent that some others go for. When i first joined, i received tons of crappy help and useless comments, even though my question was a legit one asking for help on my bricked N900 (and i did do my research).


To be honest, getting good help on this community is quite hard, at least for me anyway. There're tons of documentations and wiki to read so that's good, but really, those are a pain in the ***. I consider myself a heavy power user, i do tons of forum searching and Google searching and it's really painful, tiring and annoying to read documents and piles of paragraphs of text just to find a few answers here and there........unlike getting help at other communities like XDA Developer (for Windows Mobile or Google Android) or any of the warez forums for Iphone.
 

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