seems that with a complicated device there are a lot of complications.

some people are pleased and some just definetly arent.

Some related to real malfunctions, inappropriate behaviour of the device, or you could call this defect units. Other people, a lot, seem to like the device but have common issues such as battery life and software bug issues.

If i buy one i don't want to have to keep tweaking it and reinstalling, getting bugs such as rebooting and i do want to get a good battery life out of it, one way or the other. don't expect it to run 20 apps on the background and still give good battery life but something reasonable i would well.. at least expect from a phone.

What about software AND hardware issues? I don´t think I have any yet, but there are some that have both.

pleased 100%.

my n900 is behaving well, no instability and no random reboot. It *has* glitches, but nothing really important.

heavy terminal use, using extras-dangerous repos and hopping between two sims and one of them is an h3g one.

I sold my N800 tablet to upgrade to the N900. I enjoyed my N800 even though it was quite bigger, heavier, had no phone capabilities and no hardware keyboard, but it was nontheless great for browsing when no pc was available.

Now I've had my N900 for about one week, I have played around a little with it. Overall I am happy about the device and how it performs (multitasking and browsing is just great, so much better than N800 and N97 I've had for a month), but there are some bugs that I hope will be solved with the next firmware updates.

The issues I have found up to now are:

battery: I usually manage to get a full day with moderate use of wifi/3G connection enabled for a couple of hours, but a couple of times I saw the fully chaged battery get empty in less than 8 hours with the phone being idle. I could feel the battery get warm as if something was draining it fast, but no connection was active.
The second time this happened, I saw the battery starting to get empty, I rebooted the device and the draining of the battery stopped. I have the feeling that this is somehow software related (something hangs?)

wifi: occasionally the device will not find the wifi router (no, I'm not too far away). In this case I reboot the N900 and the router pops out again. This happened 2 times.

onscreen keyboard: occasionally the onscreen keyboard pops up, but it does not work, I have to close it reopen it and everything's fine. I know the hardware keyboard is better, but if I have to type something quick I prefer the onscreen one.

phone: my operator in Italy allows me to get some informations on my account (money left on account, data transferred etc.) by dialing # followed by a sequence of numbers, This has always worked on all phones except the N900. Any phone number that starts with the # simbol will give a "wrong number" error message. Trying to make the phone smarter Nokia raised an issue.

On top of this this, I think it would have been nice to be able to send sms messages from the phone menu, and reorganize (move/make new folders) the small "system" icons.

I do miss some of the applications that are available for the symbian platform... "handy safe" from epocware is one of these.

Another small issue... I am not able to set a sound file I uploaded to the phone (ringtone folder in sounds, where all the other ringtones are) as a ringtone in the profile menu, unless I change it's name to one of the preloaded ringtones.

If I change the name of one of the preloaded ringtones to something different, I will not find it when I try to set the ringtone in the profile menu.


Somebody else tried this?

menu> settings>profile... scroll down. Click on the tone you want to change, and choose 'add'... it should show our entire music library.

In a way i can't accept all these problems with this device floating around this forum...was so much looking forward to get this phone/tablet then got it on thurs , but it was a dud (no screen display when booting device) sent it straight back on fri and now not sure to get a replacement or a refund.

+1, i'm pleased with it but clearly there's more work to be done but worth the wait indeed

I said pleased with N900 no problems.

That said, there are feature issues that I am sure the Maemo team is busy working on.

so minor issues that will propably be fixed with patches over the time?