For those of you who understand Danish or might actually be Danes Here is a review of the N900

http://bit.ly/3UIbyh

http://translate.google.it/translate...hl=it&ie=UTF-8

Traslated in english

Nice, the first time I can see a non-QWERTY keyboard layout! Looks a little bit retro, like C64 cursor movement
http://images.pcworld.com/reviews/gr...ommodore64.jpg

Bye

Thorsten

I don't understand why, as is the case in this review, people so frequently assert things like the N900 is not a direct competitor with the iPhone. This review says the N900 targets a completely different customer segement (assuming the translation is accurate, sorry I don't read Danish). Then the review goes on to discuss multimedia features, e-mail and calendar features, internet properties, navigation and GPS. Aren't these exactly all the same things that iPhone users want to do? Isn't the main original appeal of the iPhone that it provided these features on a large touchscreen, with a slick more desktop-like interface? I'm not defending the iPhone. I don't like the iPhone. But, beyond a few open-source geeks (myself included), I just don't understand how the N900 can be seen as not a competitor to the iPhone. It's doubtful the N900 would exist in it's particular form factor and hardware configuration if the iPhone never existed. (Indeed, here's the general manger of Nokia's mobile division saying in 2007 that consumers don't like touch devices: http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/06/1...ile-next-year/. Guess Nokia did an about face on that.)

The Mobile Review review of the Droid made a similar claim. It said the Droid and the iPhone are totally different phones because the Droid has a QWERTY keyboard, so they're not direct competitors. WTF? Are market segments really that narrowly defined? I'm pretty sure the lack or presence of a keyboard is not the only thing that defines the appeal of the iPhone and it's OS.

These sort of assertions just seem bizarre to me.

The thing is, they can't be compared. N900 is a completely different level. The iPhone is a joke.

Good review, although the author's logic is questionable: he states the iPhone and the N900 compete in different customer segments and therefore are completely incomparable. Then he goes on to compare the two in terms of packaging (wrapping), keyboards, threaded SMS, and the browser, Facebook app, the app store. Well, at least he is being pragmatic.

If I was to be nit-picky, I might point out that a Danish (or Scandinavian, if that's the case) layout can still be categorized as a QWERTY layout, but since I get your meaning and am not going to be nit-picky, I won't point that out.