this is not a n900 bash, i love my n900. its the best phone ive ever had. Facebook intergration, perfect web experience, more than enough memory, totally open, massive potential, great camera. i could talk for hours about how great this phone is( and i do most of my friends have iphones they get mad!!!) however the worst thing about this fone is Nokia themselves. fair enough u produced a brillant phone but weres the care and attention.if this was a htc device - you would see some pretty nice widgets and apps that would keep u entertained. same with android and apple they have their respective app stores.

I just feel that nokia produced a good phone, but didnt take the time and effort just to produce a few decent widgets or a usable calander app etc . htc arent even known for there app making abilities surely the biggest mobile company in the WORLD could produce something a bit more polished. instead having the entire maemo community awaiting the next firmware release or meego( and the possible disappointment of that wen its nt compatible).

give this phone to htc with maemo and its finish, its overall ui improves greaty. the fact theres more apps in the repos than ovi store for maemo is really unfunny joke

Ok rant over i love my n900 i just hate that i see the htc incredible, desire so on and it puts doubt into my mind......

I don't really disagree that more stuff would be nice, but here's the opposite point of view. One of the best things about the N900 is that it's Nokia.

I love running things I can hack around with, my phones don't escape this and have often not run properly in the past. In my search for a more open phone I bought an Openmoko Freerunner a few years back.

It was open and ran linux but other than that... the build quality was poor, the battery life was terrible, the handset was only 2G, the sound subsystem was dreadful, IMHO there was no GPS app as good as Ovi maps (!!), it echoed all the time, dropped calls, didn't have a stable software stack and generally was a pain to live with.

Now I have a linux phone, and because it's Nokia I know it works. I can play around with it a lot but at the end of the day it still makes and receives phone calls.
It's always been the rule with me and my crowd - want a phone that works, you buy Nokia. And now they have a linux phone it just all makes sense.

As I say - not a disagreement with the poster above really, just a different perspective.

I disagree too. More stuff is great and welcome. But I believe that Nokia is the best mobile manufacturer in the world.

The biggest flaw Nokia has in my opinion..is that it is trying to expand too much.

Nokia produces the low end phones, Series 40, Symbian S60v3, S60v5, now Symbian^3, Maemo..Meego + a zillion different handsets, with different firmware, different components so you can't just "dump" an OS in them but you need to work.

This is why I believe Nokia sometimes leaves phones half finished or don't support them enough. They make too many phones. Apple is easy. It only has one phone to concentrate on. And HTC doesn't have too many phones either.

If Nokia increase their engineers, or decrease their different types of products, they would support phones much more. Still no one comes close in the hardware perspective. And the software is pretty good. Apart from the lack of games, I really don't miss anything from the N900. It has almost everything I want.

I really think that Nokia should reduce drastically the number of phones they release.

Why not just have 2 or 3 models in the smartphone category.
Maximum 5 models in the mid range
and maximum 5 or 6 in the low end?

Even if they do not reduce the number of headsets, they definitively should consolidate the number of platforms and unique hardware.

In my mind the sheer diversity of operating systems along with several hundred hardware variants that Nokia has to support and develop, are the main reasons for Nokia being unable to respond quickly to the rapidly evolving smartphone/super device market.

For example, there is definitively no need or sense for MeeGo to coexist with Symbian devices at the same price point. If MeeGo works as well as Maemo 5 (will after the mythical PR1.2, or will it be PR1.3? upgrade), then developing and maintaining a parallel smartphone platform with Symbian ^3 would be remarkably counter productive. Unfortunately the signs point to exactly the senseless scenario of Nokia MeeGo devices hitting the market at roughly the same time as bug free Symbian ^3 devices.

HTC has two main platforms: WiMo and Android, Apple has the iPhone OS. Their task is much simpler, especially for Apple who have just 4 cross compatible devices currently in the market, all sharing the same basic OS.

V.

The best thing about N900 is the maemo community.

Don't care about Nokia...

worst thing is Nokia's support behind it no where on pair with google

I think they will do quite the opposite

Android has shown the way to beat apple:

an open(or semi-open in their case) OS on a myriad of devices and form factors.

Before long people will not say 'which phone are you going to get' they will say 'what OS do you run on your phone'

And as the software finally defines the mobile experience Apple will be relegated to what it is in the computer market, a niche player with sleekly styled overpriced hardware, whereas real manufacturers such as htc or nokia or intel will have a myriad of models available either with winmo or android or symbian or meego. Hopefully within a few years you will be buying a device like the size of a phone that is just the hardware and is somewhat OS agnostic, kind of like you buy a PC now.


This applies to the high end smartphone market only of course, the masses still don't know or care, as long as when they press 1 it beeps and shows a 1 on the screen

Maemo would never exist without Nokia...

Respect your mother...

In other words Nokia is paying for servers and hosting and repos sooooo..