ok...then the big question for us little people...is it worth our while to get the N9 or should we be looking elsewhere?

No, I had no idea. Im like a teen at a sexparty; its all fun and exciting, albeit slightly confusing to navigate around


What do you mean "little people"?

If you want a device for about half a year to a year, its awesome. And phones get changed as often or more often than that.

If youre not able to stick to the community and do a little digging and tweaking and googling now and then, dont expect a phone that can keep up for years and years.

Nokia has said they will support it, which is cute, but no real comfort.

My take:

You want a cool, easy to use phone that does basic **** very good and/or you want something to fill the void your N900 left? Get the N9.

You want a phone you can have for 2 years and still get good support for? Get an SGS2 or SGN..

If youre the average iphone-user, the n9 will be awesome. It does the stuff the iphone does, but cooler and sexier.

Iunno if ANY of this makes sense.

So bottom line: its looking good for the average housewife, so yeah: get it.

I dunno if support from Samsung will be that steller in another year (already been out 6mth+).
But the advantage the SGSII (& others like it) has, is the massive support from the Android apps/hacking community.

Yeah, thats probably true. I just figure if theyre going to have the spearhead products like SGN and SGS2 live up to a name and keep some customers happy theyll support the devices for a good while.

Unlike, say, the N8. And the N97... and the N900... if you catch mah drift.


also:

http://www.slashgear.com/white-nokia...2012-29183982/

white+green n9?

I don't like your drift. That's just what the media is saying

I'd be more happy about a yellow one. CMYK, if you know what I mean.

N900 was never a mass-market, consumer-focussed device.
Nokia never treated it as such....
OPK: "step 5 of 6..." It was Nokia's learning/experimental platform for nerds.
They were too scared to get serious about it earlier on, because Symbian was still very strong.

Nokia never tooted everywhere in the same way they have about the N9 WRT support/updates.
You can find a track record of poor support from every OEM from time-to-time.
I don't think Samsung is immune from that...
I haven't personally owned one yet, but will once the Nexus Prime is out.

I don't really care about the other colours, what we have is fine, I'll just get a skin if I want another colour.
I'd prefer they focus on improving some of the N9's hw/sw limitations, & releasing a revised version in Q1

Yeah I remember. It just kinda felt wrong to stop at N97 in my sentence, so I threw it out there :P .

Yeah, Ive got an SGS2, and I havent used Samsungs update thing ever. Abouth a month after installed the latest Android version, Samsung released it to their less technically-up-to-date customers. By that time, the next version of Android was out.

But they do get it out there. Thats the point I guess. And its weeks, not years, like little miss Anna. Ive got Belle on my N8, but no thanks to Nokia and their SSU. I guess thats my point. Android is here to stay.

Maemo/Meego tho... some say Nokia will release a device a year, some say there are rumors that theyll never make another one... who knows, its uncertain.

Android: not so uncertain.


oh im getting a magenta one, I dont give a ****. Just thought someone might find it interesting.

ELOP IS WINNING!
This is why Finland LOVES Nokia right now. This!

Eh? Ngage?

He also talked through clenched teeth the entire time. Made me wonder whether they were welded together, if he was under an enormous amount of stress or if he was seething angry and ready to lunge at the camera person.

He knows that he's going to have to film a few of those videos with a Windoze Phone in his hands, with Steve Ballmer standing behind the camera ready to throw a chair at him if he's anything less than glowing.