After years of great experiences with Nokia, I got an N97 and a N900. Sadly.

I was a really happy user of the Nokia 6600 and the excellent N95, among others. A few month ago I bought a N97, which was a really bad experience. Poorly GPS antenna, freezed screens, reboots, low memory issues, etc, etc, etc. Decent firmware took eons.
Now I have a N900. Other disappointment.

I found that the N900 is not a PC nor a Cellphone.
Why??
Beyond the camera, FlashPlayer 9.4, shell access, keyword (with some of the same problems that the N97 had), screen which is fine, the cell phone function is super poorly implemented. Come on, where is the experience from thousands of great telephones released before?? Are we going to start from scratch? No speed dial, no USSD, no favorites in contacts, no easy way to find contacts (I have 400) without opening the keyboard, screen has lag when ringing and turning, poorly SMS implentation, I mean, ok we have "conversations" at last, it was about time, but all the other features are gone (every heavy user will know what I am talking about). No MMS?? It is a joke. No possiblity to add APNs?? Amazing. A tiny rootfs partition, none sense.

On the other side, 600Mhz it is not enough as 256 of RAM either. This is no longer a pure cellphone OS, we are using a really multitasking linux! Google's phone has almost twice of both things. A terrible lack of apps (yet at least), Nokia is depending on free coders to implement basic cell phone features, ridiculous. Never expected from a big/serious company.

OVI Maps??? PC Suite?? Not fully implemented. How could this ever be??

I know that there is a lot of extras (mostly DEVEL) for solving many of those things, that IMO should Nokia took care of. No doubts at all.

So, the thing is that N900 or N97 with very last firmware, despite the hardware things, could be, or have the potential to be really good phones. N900 is not, yet.


dhcmega

im also using an n95 8gb i think n95 was the latest success of nokia
since then i haven't seen any great news from nokia.nokia keeps loosin fans :/ it's sad but it's true

8 disagree. personally N900 is the best phone of the market actually. Bur of course ther are still many things to do. Regards!

sigh...oh god, another one...RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH!!!

Yes. Do you think that Maemo team has imported some code from symbian?

I think that in hurry they forgot to ask from testers that what would they think if they had to pay ~500€ of their OWN money for this. I would be thrilled to test this and give it back but testing this and giving loan of 500€ to Nokia because of potential and Open Source spirit seems to be bit too much. Or at least it would be for me. I got this as present so I´m quite happy

*HUG* Yes, we know. Anything else you want to get off your chest? Just let it out and you'll feel better..

N900 is one of the best cellphone I've been used so far, way better than the N97.

Just need time to get all the software been developed. When s60v3 was released in 2005/06, it was terribly lack of software as well.

I personally don't like the form-factor of N95, My favourite is the forgotten N93/N93i :-D

Yes!!! Only 3G for 2100 Mhz. 850 and 1900 Mhz will only get 2.5G....

Thanks!

I don´t think that they have used code for any other OS. IT is not a code issue, it is a common sense issue.

N95 is ugly phone. That is way my love for it is totally real !!! jajajaj