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The device itself is a continuing wow moment for me. But in regards to the FM transmitter it had a surprise easter egg. I drive a Prius, as such the control head is digital so I see all of the sub-band text information a station sends out. The system will also keep the station ID and put it into the "button" on the touch screen. I was very surprised the second time, I went to play music through my car radio. The button to which I set the open channel I use had the station label "NOKIA".
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2009-12-12
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WOW i can't send a picture message.
Wow I'm streaming live!
Wow I'm on skype 24/7
Wow this is an ALL in ONE device.
WOW, they wow my phone.
Wow I can't beat the computer in chess.
Wow there's no timed profile.
Wow I can't use myFM transmitter in my car because it's all static.
Wow I'm streaming live!
Wow I'm on skype 24/7
Wow this is an ALL in ONE device.
WOW, they wow my phone.
Wow I can't beat the computer in chess.
Wow there's no timed profile.
Wow I can't use myFM transmitter in my car because it's all static.
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2009-12-12
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Originally Posted by wingy999
I had the Droid for two weeks, but returned it. N900 kicks it's butt:
To be honest there have been no wow moments for me.
Really excited to get the phone and unbox it that was about all. As soon as i touched the screen for the first time my jaw dropped. It was no where near as smooth and responsive as my HTC HERO.
Had no problems initially but after 48 hrs of playing with it i realised that the phone side of the software is poor. Yes i know people say well its not a phone really blah blah, but the reception is really poor and it constantly dropped calls.
Found the phone uncomfortable to hold for long periods due to its thickness. The software is buggy and i know it will get better but with the battery issues, the poor touch functionality, the slow response and the size of the thing it just had to go.
Bring on the motorola milestone. Got it today and its a dream in comparison. The screen is beautiful and it all seems to work as it should. Slightly faster than my (OLD) Hero and with crystal clear clarity on phone calls. The speaker is hellish loud.
So in a nut shell im returning my n900 to nokia under the 14 day im not happy guarantee, selling my HERO and continuing to drewl over my milestone. Love it , just Love it.
1. 25gb more usable storage
2. Do not have to remove the battery to get to the sd card
3. Stylus is a nice option- Droid seemed too senstive
4. Web is far better on the N900
5. Sound quality from the 3.5 jack is far better than Droid
6. Video codec support- Droid is stuck with MP4, but the same MP4's actually look better on the N900 and the N900 also has mpg, wmv, avi, divx etc...
7. Camera is better on the N900
8. I would say the N900 has more app space (at least 1.6gb more), but at the rate things are going for Maemo 5 apps, that may be irrelevant
Still, Droid / Milestone are MUCH better as a phone-centric device and the game emulators on Android are truly masterpieces (yes- they are).
I have a rooted G1 for a back-up to my N900
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2009-12-12
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#54
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Originally Posted by Eric G
Having dinner with her tomorrow...
I hope you had the foresight to "demonstrate" the ease of inputting contact information by getting hers!
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2009-12-12
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No real wow factors because I've grown up keeping up with advancing tech all my life, this seems like the logical next step. if we stared in awe at every new generation of everything we'd look like *****s.
UI is nice, browser is nice, my major criticism is the phone function and antenna. Worse reception than my G1, less phone functionality than my G1.
The only thing that will get an audible "Wow" from me is an N64 or PSX emulator that runs 80%+ of full speed.
Great device nonetheless, I'm reasonably satisfied with it.
P.S. Why does every thread that praises this phone instantly get 5 stars, and every critical post gets labeled as "troll post"? If we don't recognize a device's flaws what chance will we get to fix them?
UI is nice, browser is nice, my major criticism is the phone function and antenna. Worse reception than my G1, less phone functionality than my G1.
The only thing that will get an audible "Wow" from me is an N64 or PSX emulator that runs 80%+ of full speed.
Great device nonetheless, I'm reasonably satisfied with it.
P.S. Why does every thread that praises this phone instantly get 5 stars, and every critical post gets labeled as "troll post"? If we don't recognize a device's flaws what chance will we get to fix them?
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2009-12-12
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Originally Posted by Lazarpandar
Other way around for me. Where I use to get only one bar in my Georgetown apt, I now get four bars.
No real wow factors because I've grown up keeping up with advancing tech all my life, this seems like the logical next step. if we stared in awe at every new generation of everything we'd look like *****s.
UI is nice, browser is nice, my major criticism is the phone function and antenna. Worse reception than my G1, less phone functionality than my G1.
The only thing that will get an audible "Wow" from me is an N64 or PSX emulator that runs 80%+ of full speed.
Great device nonetheless, I'm reasonably satisfied with it.
P.S. Why does every thread that praises this phone instantly get 5 stars, and every critical post gets labeled as "troll post"? If we don't recognize a device's flaws what chance will we get to fix them?
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2009-12-12
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WOW - reboots 
WOW - Nokia is clueless in fixing it
To be honest, the N900 is great, but constant reboots kills its usability completely. Didn't think of it at first, thought it simply was due to some software or intermittent connections. But, this has been going on for weeks, and still no update of any sort or shape.
N900 = 900 reboots each day.
WOW - Nokia is clueless in fixing it
To be honest, the N900 is great, but constant reboots kills its usability completely. Didn't think of it at first, thought it simply was due to some software or intermittent connections. But, this has been going on for weeks, and still no update of any sort or shape.
N900 = 900 reboots each day.
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2009-12-12
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Originally Posted by sljonson
The device itself is a continuing wow moment for me. But in regards to the FM transmitter it had a surprise easter egg. I drive a Prius, as such the control head is digital so I see all of the sub-band text information a station sends out. The system will also keep the station ID and put it into the "button" on the touch screen. I was very surprised the second time, I went to play music through my car radio. The button to which I set the open channel I use had the station label "NOKIA".
I never new the phone had fm transmitter till i got it, its great in the car. Any other phones got this?
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2009-12-12
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My WW factor has taken a little while (until I got my head around this new baby!!)...
Can you imagine this one a mobile device:
Playing a mp3 on media player in background while browsing with Firefox on ebay and youtube
Downloading a file via Transmission (bit torrent)(amazing speed!!)
And the phone rang and had a converstaion with a friend at the same time!!
(ref torrent - I am connected on my home WiFi !)
And the phone was still very responsive - yup that DID stun me.... ;0)
Can you imagine this one a mobile device:
Playing a mp3 on media player in background while browsing with Firefox on ebay and youtube
Downloading a file via Transmission (bit torrent)(amazing speed!!)
And the phone rang and had a converstaion with a friend at the same time!!
(ref torrent - I am connected on my home WiFi !)
And the phone was still very responsive - yup that DID stun me.... ;0)
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2009-12-12
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Originally Posted by bsving
I have had mine 4 days and only had one random reboot yesterday when I tried to play a video and it just rebooted. My N900 had already been slowing down for hours though, I think there is something iffy with qtirreco as its super-slow at times. So I suspect it was caused by something I installed not Nokia.
WOW - reboots
WOW - Nokia is clueless in fixing it
To be honest, the N900 is great, but constant reboots kills its usability completely. Didn't think of it at first, thought it simply was due to some software or intermittent connections. But, this has been going on for weeks, and still no update of any sort or shape.
N900 = 900 reboots each day.
Granted I also rebooted it several times myself due to telepathy-haze getting stuck with "network error" but you can't blame Nokia for that either.
I sympathise with people who are getting random reboots but its either bad luck being in an area with incompatible cell towers / WiFi routers, or its a hardware fault in the N900. Either way, its a hard nut to crack and I think calling Nokia useless for struggling with it is a little unfair. Yes if I had the problem I would be pissed too but I am sure Nokia are doing their best to fix it and clearly it is something they did not experience in testing.
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CSD Projects - Flickr - UAE4Maemo (UAE4All Compatibility List)
Favourite N900 Applications
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Please post your UAE4All compatibility reports. Even better, post them to my UAE4Maemo site!
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