its about trying to gain a small part of the recognition the n900 should of had since it came out, I agree a poll in a obscure webpage will not make a big difference, but heck the n900 deserves it, im doing it for you n900!

What do you mean "spamming votes"?

I beg the differ....

Spamming votes is bad when there's profit involved, say winners have the tangible benefit. (e.g. any similar competition involved Microsoft products)

However, (under the assumption that) nobody receives tangible benefits in the outcome*, it's a pretty fair mechanism to determine the popularity of a product/person.

(of course for this to hold, we must also assume there're non-zero transaction cost for multiple votes. In this case, the time to reload the webpage and vote again bares a non-zero transaction cost. If we can enter no. of votes before hitting vote button, then it's called zero transaction cost for multiple votes. Let me skip all the boring parts in assumption)

Some researchers are even interested in studying on which participants could receive most multiple votes from single sources, that could be an indicator of determine which product/person has more die-hard fans (so to say, highly persistent supporters).

That's to say, if N900 won, I'd really enjoy the victory. XD

*Note: Of course, the website holds this competition has the tangible benefit for increasing hitrate, but that doesn't affect the fairness, normally.

Sure it's sad. Just like it's sad that some users stick around a community forum with the sole purpose of insulting the platform and praising competitors.

I think you'te confusing gebrick with someone else. Ok, so he comes off as a douche with his patronizing "I'm better than you because I'm not enthusiastic about my N900" attitude in that post, but he's a member who often comes with insight and constructive critisism imo. He's also an N900 owner (and user I think)

We're spamming votes?

Guys
this is not real competition.
I have Nokia and my father has Samsung.
They are both great phones with their bugs, pluses and minuses.
They are in different categories and different target user groups.
The community is great no doubt.

we'r winning by a big difference, if only i can see the number of votes... but come on, who cares about spamming, or what ever, a win is win, and we deserve it, because we worked hard to publish this on the web, and we all voted, so we deserve it, long live the awesome maemo5 community.

1446 a few minutes ago I think. It's in the source in the submit tag of the vote form on polldaddy.

I currently have three (3) phones, namely .....

(2) N900's
and
(1) Samsung Galaxy S.

Each has it's strength and weakness.

The N900 handles serious business (banking website, network device configuration/management/monitoring etc) without breaking a sweat. It also has hardware advantages (physical keyboard/infra-red/FM-transmitter etc) that I use regularly.

The Galaxy S is untouchable in multimedia (video/audio/pictures) and the android OS gives it a multitude of applications (freedom of choice/options ).

Personally, I'm torn between the two. If I had to pick one at Gun-Point, I'd probably get shot dead.

I've participated in all the polls thus far and predicted this final earlier in this very thread.


Now I'll just watch to see which emerges Champ.

NB
The current poll results, however is a bit of a joke!
This should be a much much closer fight than any of the others.