Stranger still.. I didn't say "need". Harmattan would benefit from that more than likely and less places where users perceive lag would be a good thing.

Search the forum. A lot was wrong with that thing as a phone. Answering it became a chore. It would get confused trying to rotate from portrait to landscape, lag and sometimes force me to miss a call if it were already on the 3rd or so ring.

Congrats? Many other people had issues. Just because it hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

If you're on AT&T, N900 on 3.5 = impossible. It's EDGE and only EDGE. Faster if you're on wi-fi, not ideal while driving around on a cellular phone.

Again, you're overlooking the one thing I said rather clearly... the so-called best OS for multi-tasking simply doesn't have a lot to multi-task over/with, now does it?

As it stands, the N9 has great multi-tasking ability, an older chipset that has a couple of issues in some areas (small lag here and there) and no third party support so popular applications - popular to the mainstream not just to you and I - and we're stuck with a platform that can multi-task all damn day in a glorious manner, but it's doing nothing more than just juggling a few, good apps.

None of which will be commercially upgraded because Nokia doesn't care for the platform and we don't have access to the code.

Great platform indeed, sorely lacking support. That's my point. Not that one is better than the other - I really don't care to speak on that because that's all based on what you consider a workflow worthy of being considered the best.

And about the EPOC platform - way ahead of its time, way less code bloat than new platforms, planned in such a way it's still relevant a decade later, it was just done so damn well.

Sadly, I can't say the same for Harmattan despite really, really wanting to. In 3 years, it'll be too slow to do what I want due to the advancements in HTML5, Canvas, et al.

Oh... offline maps, on my tablet I have the mid-atlantic states and no issues. Not sure what you're talking about. It's pretty much the same experience as my N9 and Nokia Maps on my Lumia 900. Download the maps - or in Android's case, use the tablet version and I have access without wifi and it "works fine".

And pertaining PDF's and eBooks, I just resumed reading an eBook (epub) that I hadn't read since sometime last week - but was still running in the tasklist without going back to page 1. Again, not sure what you're talking about. But I don't use Adobe Acrobat, I tend to use FBReader - like I used to on my 770 and N810.

For anybody complaining about lag on N900 : have you really tried to optimize it by installing Kernel Power v50 and Swappolube (for example) ?

It is very simple, just use the Application Manager and install 1 software for Kernel Power 50, another to have overclocking, other one for USB host mode ("Host Mode Enabler"/"hostmode-gui"). Kernel Power 50 increased my N900's battery life a lot : 2-3 days for me with SmartReflex on. You can even overclock @ 850 MHz with SmartReflex on.

Been there, done that. Go back and read Dousan's account on the phone issues... I also had that same issue.

But... a great phone shouldn't have to have all of that - should come optimized out of the box, no?

Harmattan is not laggy and stuttering because its missing a dual core. It is doing this because 1 GB of RAM is not enough, and it uses swap space even before the memory is full.
A dual core wouldn't help with that.

iphone 4s has only 512Mb of RAM and smokes N9 with how silky smooth it is

Smooth as a baby's bottom, but slightly less functional.

might well be your problem

have had the maps for "off-line" navigation for a whole continent stored on my N900 for nearly two years... just 'cuz Google realized they had to offer the off-line as well to keep up with OVI-maps doesn't mean they invented it

had to let your eyes rest for a whole week ear being able to tackle page 2, huh? ¦-)))))

with a terrible excuse of a multitasking... yeah... I can be smooth with even less than 512mb ram.

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