Gee..I was all on the "Get Debian installed on the 'ol Netfinity and start learning Gnome" tip. Now I'll have to go back to painting my 40k army.

Nokia, Git to werk ya maggots!

Ive been waiting since 2005, few weeks longer wont hurt.

Dat's what I'm talkin' about!

I put da SadViolin back in the case!

Good meet up in Chicago tonight. There were 6 or 7 Nokia reps who had N900s. You could chat them up and try the phone. Pretty good feel to the N900. The black matte finish doesn't show fingerprints, however, the screen does.

Anyway, I had about 12 applications running at once (over wifi not TMobile) and they snapped open and closed pretty fast. Some good integration of Skype (we'll see how the lawsuit against EBay goes), Google Talk and SIP. Skype account info was updated into your address book. Someone changes their phone number it will automatically change in your phone book.

Calendar synthesizes multiple calendars into one (Ovi) calendar. Really great integration of Qik on the phone for immediate uploading to Facebook, Youtube and Ovi. The N900 was plugged into a 40 inch plasma set and we went through what the interface looked like as well as what media and games looked like. Pretty nice.

Now for the part that folks are not happy about: the release date. Here is a quote "we are hoping for a November release...but definitely this year." There were a couple of gasps along with some chuckles. It was explained that after some of the developers had extended hands-on time with the N900, they came back with a "wish list". Nokia decided to try to bake those changes into the phone, pre-release rather than through any firmware update. They felt that "it was the right thing to do."

They feel that the developer community will support the Maemo platform because the QT application development tool will allow cross platform development (write an app on QT for Symbian and it will work on Maemo, and vice versa). That was cool to hear. You could see where the new applications would mushroom out, over time.

It sounds like there may be 2 other N900 meet ups (Moscow + either Barcelona or Madrid) as well as "informal" or grass roots meet ups (they called them shadow events).

In sum: really nice product. I will get one. I just don't know when they will be released.

I am also going to post this on the GDGT board, verbatim, as I don't feel like typing it out again. So if you are on both boards, sorry to "double post"

I just wish they will get the phone out and give us our firmware updates later.

Man I don't want a brick phone!

I hope I'm not reposting a question already asked but I dnt have the time to read through this entire thread to double check... can any one validate if Newegg is a good reputable place to get the N900. I only ask because it has it for cheaper then my stamding preorder with amazon. it also has an actual date on the site for the release on Nov 14th.


thanks guys,

newegg is very reliable, the only thing is they will not accept a return of the device, so you'd better be sure you like it!

Is it here yet.








no

Ok, I can live with that.

It makes perfect sense that following on from the 300, they want to improve the firmware rather than just sort bugs. Maybe we'll see portrait mode in the release. What else did the 300 request? Anyone out there can tell us?

What I would say was a tad 'silly' on their part was the timing of the 300 in the original release plan. Deciding to completely revise their release plan from "After the 300 respond we will sort bugs" to "After the 300 we will make significant changes" was very late decision making. If that had been even a very faint possibility, then the Official Release Date should have been set for three months after the summit.

I guess that's what Dr Jaaksi was taking responsibility for on his blog.