Personally I'm still with my N900 because I'm still in contract.

I love the phone - however what gets me down, is that so many websites I use have 'download our iphone/android app!' and it's often something that I wish I could have on the N900.

I know that the N900 was never going to be a mainstream phone, but I did think with the open platform there would be more apps of a higher quality.

Sadly, I know that if I move to a HTC/iphone, I would get the great apps, but I would lose in other areas (32gb onboard, great emulators etc), but I know that the quality of the apps would be far better.

Another big drive for these thoughts are the poor support from Nokia. I've always had nokia devices for the past 10 years, but their support just seems to get worse and worse. I expect when I buy a phone, that it will include some software that will make my phone work with my PC, regardless of what version of windows I'm using. Not being able to use it properly with W7 64bit was a nightmare.

Then comes the confusion between ovi and pc suite - which is best? do I really need to install both to get all the features?

this also leads me on to the ovi store - what a waste of time. do any n900 owners ever use this?

I know we have the slow as hell app manager (yeah i know, 3rd party app managers are faster) but most of the decent apps on there take a bit of time and care, and tend to be in extras - which usually means they simply aren't optimised (see: upgrading firmware).

My last point (sorry this may seem a bit ranty!) - is the support from Nokia on ovi maps. I can't believe that they still don't have voice navigation! Nokia said it was 'coming soon' almost 12 months ago. I'm pretty annoyed that a phone which was advertised with navigation doesn't have turn by turn directions. I know that nokia were a bit sneaky with their marketing and never explicitly promised voice nav - but they did say it was coming. I know we can buy sygic - but that's a lot of money for a sat nav app, and it is sometimes cheaper to buy a cheap nokia with free ovi maps with navigation than it is to buy the sygic software.

Don't get me wrong - there are some things I love about my N900 - the memory, the screen, the keyboard/touchscreen combo, the video game emulators, and the web browser. But I do sometimes wish I had a phone that 'just worked'

You got that wrong... Nokia never promised Voice Nav on Maemo 5. Maemo 6/MeeGo, now that is a different story.

no, when free voice nav was announced, it was also said that it was coming to the N900 soon. (dont have time to find source right now)

Why are there two products?

It does.


When you have time later, please find and post it. Thank you in advance.

I sold my N900 and now have an iPhone 4. You do lose some things, but overall my user experience is now Better as the ui is so much more polished. It all depends what you want to do, unless you wanna use Linux etc in a small pc/phone N900 is not for you, I admit I made a mistake in getting n900, sure a lot of things iPhone can do the n900 can do, but it is always so much more effort buggy etc! For me simple things like not being able to stream tv catch up or BBC iplayer matter And so iPhone 4 meets my needs more. Also you can't beat the iPod as a music player, again IMO!

Unlocked n900 direct from Nokia, still in use. Wouldn't want to use anything else.

There's no source. It was said that Maemo (as in Maemo 6) would get it. People just read it as N900. This was pre-MeeGo announcement.

love it, i'm still tied in however i have two other upgrades due and nothing interests me at all.
working in a voda retail store i see all the top devices and play all day, but they all they fail when it comes to boundary breaking functionality and open source. tried many android devices and to be honest its shiny and thats it. the closest to winning me over was the n8,,... but even that cam hasn't won yet
heres to another 12 months with my n900!

Unlocked N900 - the only kind you can get here in the US. Have it since 3rd week of December 2009.

Very happy with it. Bought an N8 to see where Symbian had reached, tried it for a week and sent it back (Nokia will send me my money back...sometime in the next 30 days - I hope!).

The H/W keyboard, Skype as part of the phone app, sharing baked in so cleanly, IM and SMS as part of the one application (being online on 5 IM systems all at the same time, all day - and "it just works").

I like the UI and find it very smooth. The fact that I have weather, news, email, messaging and IM all there humming in the background and I still get a full day's use out of it (more even since PR 1.2 and 1.3) - nice.

My next phone, and I keep checking what's out there, has a high bar to leap over.