Two totally different phones, I-phone is for the masses, N900 definately a specialist phone.

The average Joe Bloggs will hate the N900.

I on the other hand LOVE the N900 but I work in IT and would consider myself a techie.


Joe bloggs wont use half the apps in the repos,. they are looking for fart apps and picture distorters whilst i need network sniffers, VNC, IM a command line and a whole host of other useful tools to help me not have to carry my bulky Lenovo around with me

Ah man i forgot to give QTIRRECO an honorable mention! This app is a complete and utter GODSEND for me. The idiot that specced out our offices seems to have ordered a different bloody plasma for each meeting room (67 in total)

Well actually we have about 6 different makes plus BR players etc etc and my mates hate the fact that when a user reports a fault i take my phone and they have to take a bunch of remotes!!!!!!

would be a quite arbitrary and hardly meaningful comparison, wouldn't it? the original iphone, when it was introduced, was a very simple, low-complexity, no-frills feature phone that had the whole companies marketing machine behind it - and carrier subsidies.

the N900 is a very powerful, complex, hardly subsidised mini-computer that enjoys very little marketing only and has a company behind it which (rightfully) says: we didn't make this for the mass market, think twice before you buy it.

as i said before: the benchmark for the N900's success aren't the iPhone or the Nokia C3 or the Samsung Corby; not even so-called smartphones. the only valid banchmark is Nokia's own expectation about the commercial success.
don't forget it wasn't designed to be "as successful as possible" and to be sold to "every consumer on earth, if possible". it was designed for a certain type of consumer. and it may be a surprising finding that it either appeals to other types of consumers as well... or the target group is just larger than expected.

qole.org, which hosts my Easy Debian image files, is showing a download usage of 67.6 GIGABYTES A DAY (69261 MB).

They're estimating TWO TERABYTES this month!

I got 52,092 requests for the Easy Debian image files last month. Some of those might be multiple requests from one user, but still...



Thank you, Dreamhost, for your unlimited hosting plan.

Another interesting tidbit about Nokia's view of the N900:

Anurag Thakur, the Canadian technology marketing guy for Nokia, said the N900 is considered inside Nokia as a "developer phone" and it was never intended to go mass-market.

Reminds me of Google beta services that would never seem to come out of beta. At least they eventually DID.. and are much more evolved and better supported without burning legacy users than anything Nokia's done or communicated so far. I hope they intend to change that. If they did, I'm sure many people would be pleasantly surprised given Nokia's issues with customer service and support.

Besides--aren't they basically admitting that they don't have a product, then? What the hell kind of company intends to succeed without products? Even SUPPORT and SERVICES are products--we don't even get that for the Internet Tablet series and the N900 phone.

Surprisingly, I hear and read this only in this forum, where as in the real world nothing is mentioned ,and every launch is done with huge fanfare....... Pls refer the hong kong launch recently....the road show video and launch video are on You tube.

True, but i don't think it needs more proof than the Korean factory where N900 is only made. They could not even produce enough for the small demand compared to the normal high end phone factory combo(Finland + China) that has been able to make 2 million N97 in 2 months or made 17 million N95 or +10 million E71.

If they where expecting big volume from N900 why are they using only one factory that's already much smaller than the Finland, Salo one?

I've tried to Google for charts/graphs that show phone sales but can't see anything.

Does anyone have any links to get proper figures on this?

The following link does not represent how often a device has been sold but you can compare how many internet sites write about something:
http://www.google.de/trends?q=nokia+...ate=all&sort=1
(here the comparison between Nokia N900 and N97).