From what I have heard there are a few people here with the N900 in hand. Have anyone tried to use the phone and a BT keyboard for writing a normal lenght report, like 30 pages long? Is it a pain to write it even if you use the tv-out?

When you are at lectures you usualy want to have the powerpoint in front of you, since its just 3.5" will it be comfortable to look at it during the lecture? In some of my classes the teacher doesn't use powerpoint(like physics and math), how does it work to write all the equations and graph directly on the phone? And how does the text recognition work nowadays?

Biggest problem with TV-Out for me has been finding a display with composite plug.

BT keyboard works with a hack, but I don't know about writing a 30 page report. That sounds unpleasant.

Liqbase or Xournal would be your best bets for writing equations on the device.

I haven't seen any sign of handwriting recognition on the N900.

yes. absolutely so. and the stand makes it even nicer.

Then at least one problem is solved
My tv have composit connections so that won't be a problem.
But how efficient is it to write all the equations on the phone instead of writing it on a paper? It is quite important that is fast enough as you can imagine

i've been using the ATI85 graphical calculator with the stylus, and it works just fine (except it closes/crashes if left to idle for a few minutes). it's about as fast as typing on the real thing.

a lil out of topic but i need to ask this cause i did not get any responds from JAVA thread..

is your university use blackboard learning system to upload your lecture notes?

if yes than it might be a problem with N900 because blackboard will need JAVA to load.. and N900 don't have one...

No it does not use blackboard, my university makes a pdf of it and upload it to the course site.

Okey then I think it all will work

man....the N900 really needs java

Presumably it's still possible to use a full-size (foldable) bluetooth keyboard with the N900? That's what I use with my N800, and as the kbd doesn't take much more space than the N800 itself it's quite ok to carry with me for occasions where I want to write some significant amount of text.

Yes, you need to edit a config file and reboot the N900, but after that, you can pair a BT keyboard to the phone and use it, mostly like the N800. The main problem is that there's no control panel setting for the keyboard type anymore.