I vote - yes please lets terminate these pests. I come here to learn more about my imperfect yet great device only to be confronterd by garbage posts that make no sense. Who in his right mind will consider a device with an ARM A8 processor plus GPU, 256mb memory, 5 megapixel camera, etc is truly beyond me.

OMG . . . It is ver clear now that you got this phone for FREE from Vodaphone UK and then are spending your time talking sh*t about it . . . .

"research"?

Yea, "RESEARCH" I paid $650 for my N900 and I did "RESEARCH" before making my purchase!!!

You, on the other hand, got it for FREE, and most likely ordered it because it was SHINEY!!!

Then complain because it don't make you pancakes in bed and rub your balls at night!!!

I am use to using Linux and I Knew it was a linux phone . . . . That is why I bought it . . . . I bet you didn't even enable the extra Maemo.Org to your list of sources of Apps . . . well I added every source available thanks to . . . yet again "RESEARCH" . . . and I NOW AFTER ADDING ALL THE EXTRA SOURCES have a ton of Apps on my phone and a bunch more that I haven't even downloaded yet . . .

I have Quake and Open Area - Oh and a Nintendo Emulator so I can play all the roms I can get my hands on!!!

I have a torrent client on my phone!!! I can download Music Movies and Nintendo roms by the BOAT LOAD!!!!

The Music Player is GREAT and sync's perfectly with SONGBIRD!!!

If I get tired of listening to my mp3's I have both a client for Last.FM its Call Vagalume and a client for Pandora Radio it's called pyPianobar and requires Pianobar (don't worry it's all free)

Not to mention ANY webbase or podcasting radio channels . . . like HOT97!

Oh and It makes call BETTER than any other phone on the US Market!!!

T-Mobile Calls over 3G or Edge - And the FASTEST CONNECTION SPEED ON A PHONE!!

3G HSDPA @ 10 Mbps vs 7.2 Mbps on the iphone and Nexus One!!!!

So yea it is a great phone . . . you can even make conference calls on T-Mobile USA for free . . . even Skype Calls!!!

Come on it's not a phone!?!?!

Your joking right?



So yea, If you want more Apps do some "RESEARCH" (yes knowledge is power)

Add some more sources to the N900 Application Manager (it is rather easy, even YOU should be able to figure it out)


If you want iTunes then please get an iPhone and get out of the Maemo Forums

Hey.. thanks for the advertising .

I second that . . . please . . . we should be focusing on progress not nonsense

No thank you for the GREAT Pandora App!!!

I am using it as we speak

Mediocre Device?

The problem isn't that the N900 is a "mediocre device". The N900 is an excellent device... for what it does. I can do much more with it than any other portable device currently available.

It is a mediocre phone. A very poor excuse for a "navigator", and a complete failure as means to deliver and sell third party software.

However, I can get, view, store, and use just about anything served on the web with it with the exception of the very latest flash, but even that will eventually be available. I can also easily write an app that can use most of the N900's hardware to manage or control anything I dream up in the future... I can't truthfully say that about any other device currently available.

Nokia as a manufacturer, and Maemo as an OS are excellent.
Nokia's marketing is the dang problem. Ovi is the best example of this cluster fsck.

Nokia should continue what it does well but it should fire the whole marketing department and start over.
It continues to make some excellent niche devices and the N900 is one of them... The trouble is it doesn't correctly define the niche and then directly target that market.

Nokia fires its marketing guns too broadly and ends up pissing off a lot of people who may have been better off not knowing about a particular device in the first place... or at the very least been given the opportunity to learn whether the device is right for their intended use.

Instead, as in the case of the N900, they first target past Nokia bloggers who's only knowledge of Maemo may have been that it is on the next device that they could get to use for free. These bloggers and technical writers whip up a frenzy in the general consumer market and raise unreasonable expectations.
By the time real consumers have it in their hands, these same bloggers have moved on to the next device that the may get to use for free.

Meanwhile, when the IT professionals, scientists, and future software developers (perhaps the real market) does get around to discovering the capabilities of devices like the N900, these same marketing geniuses are feeding Nokia data from the first group that was exposed to it (the wrong, general market).

So the next device will have bells, whistles, and features that at best are imitations of what the competition used in the last device cycle and at worst, hinder or make useless features that the real market is just discovering uses for.

But no worry, this is just "deferred success". Marketing will "drill down deeper" and examine the "granularity" of the data to determine the next "paradigm" shift and provide Nokia the "success metrics" it requires to achieve a "short term solution" to this "value proposition".

The more things change...
... the more they stay the same.

I am just so happy with my N900. Perhaps it's because by previous phone was a HP ipaq running windows mobile 5. Tied up to that awful sync program that you had to have 5 goes before it even started to do anything. I can play and swap ipod tracks , I can use amorak to edit tracks and titles directly on the device and listen to them too. Sure I would like to edit docs and spread sheets, but that will happen one day, yes I would like to cache enough maps to use it as a navigator offline, but that can happen eventually too. That stuff would never have changed on my old phone, just put up with it ! That is the point really, if you have the get up and go to get off your *&^ most realistic expectations can be resolved.
Am I worried if full microsoft exchange server functionality is not implemented, NOT AT ALL, I will never cough up for an Exchange server for my business. It already fills 90% of my wish list, with some of the things I want to do, needing a custom app, but at least it can happen. It's a choice you make, an iPhone that makes the cash register ca-ching at every turn, or Linux that you have to wait or work at the solutions perhaps 6 months or more. I can see a path through to have my N900 be a 98% fit for my needs in 6 months and that there may be a phone that MAY do all I need off the shelf in that time. I will always want a phone to be smaller and have longer battery life, as long as it lasts all day an not let me down when I need it, it's all good. Thanks to the Maemo team ! Thanks to Nokia to have the courage to open the door. That could be a career limiting move in many organizations .

who ever doesn't know how to use the Nokia N900 to reach it's potential is a NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB. We are all here happy with the N900 and yes iPhone cannot do what N900 can. I played SNES with PS3 Controller and Wii Controller. I play online game...etc. And yet this device is only just 4months old lol. Comparing to a 3years old iPhone...

By far even it is not a complete product but yet it proven to be the best OS i've ever seen in the market for a mobile phone. Though the camera is only 5MP, but so? does it matter much? I don't use my phone to take professional photograph. But I did wish that it would have come with a 12Mp or Zeon. But yet who'd cares.. What is it now is good than most phones out there.

I don't think we need a bunch of fascists running around banning things.

I don't think so either but their is a different between voicing your opinion, questions, problems, & concerns AND harassing people with the same negative idea's in numerous threads to the point that it becomes worse than spam.

The beauty about Open Source is you no longer have to worry

"Why can't I do this?"

"Why didn't Nokia do this?"

Rather all you have to do is ask ....

"HOW can I do this?"



@guber99 : I saw a separate App for setting-up exchange mail in the setting and their are also quiet a few Apps in the Maemo.Org Extra-Dev that claim to extend the exchange mails functionality. I don't use exchange mail but I assume if you where to do your "RESEARCH" you might actually find it possible to access your company's MS Exchange Email Severs. The problem is you didn't come to the forum looking for help you came looking for a fight.