Thread: N900: The Great "It's a phone!" vs. "It's not a phone; it's a mobile computer!" Debate
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-10-08 , 13:17
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#217
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
ps: Given n900's phone 'performance', then I think you've made a good choice in having a separate phone to do the proper job.
I just don't get this anymore when I see it. Having had my N900 for several months now.. it's all I use for my phone and it does just fine for me.

*shrug*

On topic: The only thing that makes the N900 more of a mobile computer is the OS IMHO. Technically Android and the iPhone 4 (has to be 4, no one will ever convince me a phone that can't multi-task is a mobile computer..) could be considered one but their OS just screams "mobile phone" as that is completely what they are designed around.. the phone. Plus.. an entire Java-based desktop OS is just... an ugly thought. The N900's OS is more closely related to Desktop and Laptop OS's already established on the market. The multi-tasking sub-system isn't hampered, altered, or screwed with any way to try and "optimize" the "phone" experience by automatically picking random targets and killing them, or closing them into 'save states' to save on memory.

Some may think the latter is a good thing for a phone, I don't necessarily disagree, but it would be horrible on a mobile computer.
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