Well! I love my N900 just like yall, I brag about it, I Showcase it as it is the most powerfull piece technology so far on this planet in a mobile internet tablet form. BUTTTTTTTTT!!
Just last night i was at a partayyyy...& most of my friends were there with all different gadgets & smartfones..and tey all looked at my proud N900 and they were going crazy overthe specs made funny faces bout the weight & size but hey I shut them up by sayin "It's a big fone for for Big ppl" bu then comes more criticism & it's very embarassing.
So i tell you what was I thinking last night after not looking around too far but just comparing very basic smartfones, & I got so depressed. The fone Im praising so much doesnt have that much apps,no even close to what very basic phones r offering at teh moment.
For crying out loud this is 2010 & we paid top $$$ for a device that doent even have a decent mapping app. And whatever apps are out there are created or made by some joe blow programmer that is inno way comparable to apple, android or black berry apps.
I mean Nokia is one of the biggest mobile fone company on this planet, & there reliabilty is a joke now. Where is the update for N900?? Where is the Dedicated OVI store?? Where are the apps designed just for this fone, Where are the themes??
They made a solid brick of strong hardware but suck at the software part BIGG TIME, just like N97. Im so dis-appointed in this device now..


"I WONDER IF YOU THINK ALONG THE SAMELINES AS MYSELF"???

First off, it's new so there aren't many apps, but i do agree. Most of the apps that have been created suck for the most part. Don't get me started on the useless and terrible ovi maps. Nokia should just throw that away and write it off as a loss. Google beat you on this front. Face it. Garmin should give up too. Other than that I pretty much just use it as a PMP device since I am living in Korea and haven't gotten it working with the local carriers yet.

If I could return it still I prob. would and pick up a Sony Satio just because of what I use it for mostly. I use it as an MP3 device and a camera. The Satio would fit me just fine on those two fronts.

No. There are some N900 fungirls here that kill you for "criticizing" the N900. They probably enjoy carrying two phones like me to meet all there phone needs. I still carry my N95 around since:
1 The GPS system of the N900 is the worse of its kind I have ever experienced.
2. Calendar cant sych with any linux system, though IT IS a linux based phone.
3. etc....

I think I've heard this somewhere before...

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1608697

Heh. And I just can't take any of these posts full of "ur" and "rite" very seriously...

Obviously, the OP is entitled to his opinions. Really though, I am fascinated with how he needlessly lengthens some words (e.g. "BIGG", "BUTTTTTTTTT!!"), yet deems other words not worthy of that extra letter (e.g. "fone")...

Even a cursory reading of that was enough to hurt my brain.

I think someone else put in the best defense for this situation...

Apple took something like 6 months to release the first firmware update and another 18 months or so to release the first approved application. It took until version 3.0 of the firmware before the iphone could do MMS for example - 2 years after the devices release!

From my experience Nokia have been terrible about communicating timeframes and details however this device has only been out for about a month now so have a little patience.

No other device has such brilliant integration with Skype and other SIP/voip providers. No other device right now has such a good browser. There are a lot of capable devices out there but right now the n900 is very high on the list! There are apps for the device and a great supportive developer community building some great applications - also if you find an issue there is a bug tracker where you can log issues and actually talk with the developer too! Try that on for size Apple...

I think Nokia need to do something drastic now to keep their lead in the mobile industry as symbian is so dated and the hardware limited - have you ever gotten an out of memory error on a 5800, it totally sucks and happens far too often, havent seen that on my N900 yet!

Android is king of the show right now, Palm are doing interesting things and Apple are, well apple. Nokia and Microsoft need to really get to work asap! The Hardware is great, time to work on the software and services...

Dont get me wrong the n900 is far from perfect but it is a decent device, with a bit of work it could be great! I for one am hopeful...

ok let me be honest....
remember when ovi maps first came about? it was terrible! but rapidly over time it became fabulous..
agreed not as comprehensive as google maps but it still has its pluses over google maps....
(try this link from your n900 see if this helps you http://n900maps.ath.cx )
maemo is a totally new OS and it has been stated that the N900 is not the "mass consumer device" so expect these sort of things....
again i said alot of people bought the n900 and didnt know what they were getting into...they just bought it as it was the "new thing"...
ovi store- unless you havent seen " coming soon"...and if you want apps why not try maemo.select? maybe even downloads on this site? or the repositories?
again i say why are you disappointed in a device that was and has been clearly stated as "not a main stream device"?

"But it won't do the one thing *I* want so the whole thing is whacked."

Proof at how personal devices have become. Entire religions spring up around them.