Really? Why do you say that as a phone it's crap? Because it has no call keys?

And the camera module in this is used in the N85 and N96 AFAIK, so...

Sat Nav... Ovi Maps is fine. What's wrong with it? Take it up with Tom Tom, not the N900.

And digital compass doesn't exist on the N900, FYI. It just measures the change in displacement between two GPS reading to estimate your direction. TI OMAP 3430 doesn't have digital compass.

N900 still beats any other device out there. Show me one device that can do everything my N900 can do.

No?

As for the OP, if you need to run back here for ammo every time you and your friend compare phones, seriously, you need to get a life, or at least learn how to think for yourself. Use your N900, see what it can do, and talk about it. Much better than relying on info from elsewhere that you can't describe because you know nothing about it.

One thing an iPhone owning friend was really jealous of was the fact that my N900 had MAME. Google it if you don't know what it is, or better still, install it and see what it can do.

Well yodawg, I must say I truly doubt whether your "friend" asks you this or you are just trying to ask your own questions through a alter-ego, but whatever.

The question it comes down to is: what matters to you, showing off (e.g. dick-measuring) or functionality? If you think the show-off factor is the most important feature of the phone, I guess the N900 won't work for you. Like Cole said, the hardware for the N900 was decided August 2009, which makes the phone a year old so it won't compete to any devices recently released.

However, the phone is running a variation of Linux and can do almost everything. Bluetooth mouse support has been added recently, and I have my hopes up for keyboard support or USB host support coming soon. If that'll come, the N900 will offer true computer functionality when linked to an external display (e.g. TV). Try that with iPhone OS or Android. When not linked to a TV or mouse/keyboard, it works like an excellent phone, including built-in Skype functionality.

Regarding speed: overclocking the device is a nice way to bring it up to par with devices that have recently been released --- 8 to 9 months later!! Battery-life issues exist with every modern phone and the N900 is no exception. Still, I can use my N900 for 2 days easily, with my GPRS connection turned on almost constantly, regularly listening to music, checking my e-mail every half our and checking my Facebook every now and then.

Is it me or the people who start threads like these and people who moan about owning the n900 seem to lack any kind of imagination to use it?

Jeez!

I'm running Django and a web server on mine at the moment - I installed it to /opt created some symbolic links and Django runs fine.

Installation was simple - just downloaded latest stable package and that's it.

I think the n900 should carry a health warning:

"WARNING!
This device may require basic intelligence, imagination and an IQ above double digits.

Failure to meet these requirements will hamper operation of device.

You may also suffer the following side-effects:
Nausea, loss of rational thought, increasing urges to rant about negative aspects of device and form ignorant opinions of a technical nature.

If symptoms persist seek immediate professional psychiatric help, sell n900 and buy device more monkey friendly"

I'm somewhat confused over the anger I find on this site.

I have had most of the Nokia phones in the communicator series (9100, 9200, 9300, E90), now I have the N900 (I know, it's not/more than a phone, but let's call it a phone for now), and Nokia behaves as they always do ...

The phone is released with pomp and circumstances, shortly thereafter one or two upgrades is released, then the official accessories disappears and Nokia drops you like a wet towel.

Even though I find this behaviour infuriating, I suspect this to be the case with most smart phones. When the user buys the phone it's probably two generations old in the lab and one in fabrication, why use resources on yesterdays news ?

To paraphrase a colleague of mine (normally talking about microsoft products) : You were warned, it said Nokia on the box !

I love my N900, until I got it, I had a smart phone and a Palm PDA (and Palm wasn't behaving much different than Nokia), now I have the best of both worlds

For me the N900 is the ultimate phone (for now), if you don't like it, don't buy it.

If you have bought one, use it, love it and make it better by developing some great apps.

When something better suited for you comes along, buy that.

But stop complaining here, it doesn't help, write to Nokia or something like that.

OK, maybe a bit off topic ....

Kim

“Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it.”

Seriously. Technology is a moving target. You will only have the latest and greatest for a brief moment. Days, weeks, or never more than months later, something else will be available that is "better".

You will never be happy if you can't accept that.

This phone is about 7 months old..so yeah based on the speed of new tech it isn't top of the line. No surprises there.

You've been brainwashed by Nokia's marketing trashtalk. Bit like saying the iphone is the first smartphone.

IMO the first mobile pocket computer is the Psion Series 3.

By saying it is the only real "pocket" computer.. means that it is the closest thing you will come to a computer... like the one you have on your desktop (i.e. will run desktop programs).

Psion 3 was more of a calculator in comparison.

If you compare it to today's technology!

There were other Psion portable computers - but at a stretch you could call them pocketable (if you were wearing clown trousers).

The Psion 3 was the first attempt to resemble something like a computer - (e.g. usable qwerty keyboard).

I had one of these devices and have to say at the time it did a lot of things very well; contact manager, database manager, wordprocessor, spreadsheet and it's own programming language.

It also had solid-state disks (expensive), serial cable and an optional printer cable too.

Then there was the huge amount of software for it.

Atari also brought out the "Folio" at the same time?
Can't remember which one was first though.