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2010-02-06
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£45 per month for the next 12 months and cost me £60, well worth it, bit annoyed a few weeks later could have got it for £350 sim free, but at least like all of you, can say we have the best phone out.
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2010-02-06
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#152
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The worst spent $600 ever. The computer is good except for a SMALL problem, I cant get my corporate email due to non-provisioning...................even iphone doesnt flunk provisioning test but N900 does...........
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2010-02-06
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@ New York City
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#153
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Originally Posted by ossipena
hahaha . . . . thats great
I thought of buying another yesterday. Luckily reasoned before acting -what the hell would I have done with another?!?
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2010-02-06
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#154
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no. I dont regret it. I would not saying best ever spending phone since its pricey, but not regret it.
Wish the battery could last longer thoug
Wish the battery could last longer thoug
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2010-02-06
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Yep
Maybe I'm just unlucky, 1st handset worked for 3 days then went into continuous reboot mode. 2nd handset worked fine for 2 weeks now will not boot.
I'm off to the shop for a refund, I'm giving up on this handset
Maybe I'm just unlucky, 1st handset worked for 3 days then went into continuous reboot mode. 2nd handset worked fine for 2 weeks now will not boot.
I'm off to the shop for a refund, I'm giving up on this handset
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2010-02-06
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@ ˙ǝɹǝɥʍou
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Hardware-wise, it's a great deal. The software holds much potential, but there quite a few glaring deficiencies (no portrait, subpar email, rss, etc). Future development of it (upgradeable to maemo6 & general 3rd party support) is kinda questionable at this point.
Did I regret spending the money to buy it? Not really.
Do I use it on a daily basis? Not really.
Did I regret spending the money to buy it? Not really.
Do I use it on a daily basis? Not really.
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Patience : [###-------] | Weapon(s): Galaxy Note + BB Bold Touch 9900
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2010-02-06
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@ Sydney
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I love it!!! I would like a much better email client and the random rebooting to cease, but the rapid development of it so far through the community and Nokia gives me great hope all this will be addressed soon enough.
Even with these issues, it is fantastic!
Even with these issues, it is fantastic!
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2010-02-06
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Been using it as my only phone since 4.12.
I've powered up by netbook once after that and my previous phone that has a clone SIM (my data plan includes two SIMs with the same number) has died on the shelf for lack of use, I maybe should charge it to keep the battery from rotting.
No, I don't regret spending all that money. Not one bit. I use my N900 daily, at least half an hour of Skype, full use of my university POP email, min. an hour of web browsing on the bus and on breaks between lectures, music playing on the background much of the time, idle time easily killed with the games. The device only truly rests and needs rest while I'm asleep, and even then it's breathing in its daily dose of electricity on the other side of the room I sleep in (I'm not a morning person, so if the alarm does not get me up from bed, I'll fall asleep again). It does everything I throw at it with such self-confidence that I've actually learned to trust it - my previous Symbian phones haven't been trustworthy due to bugginess and self-rebooting (I've had exactly one uncalled for reboot on my N900 and that was from messing with root mode) and my total three weeks of iPhone connection-dropping quasi-single-task hell (3G for four days and 3GS for the rest of the time) taught me to think twice before getting anything fruit-themed... If I want to be caged, I'll get married. HTC Hero's captouch panel does not like my fingers making it a usability nightmare and the G1 had a ridiculous but luckily faint red-green pattern on the screen from the sense capacitors that popped up with an ugly grin at me every time I looked at the screen for longer than a few seconds.
Uh, I'm glad those times are over... My blood pressure is back to normal and I've stopped worrying about not being available when I should be - now I am "online as it happens" on Skype, MSN and Gtalk - and let's not forget the WCDMA900 band rollout back here, I get 3G signal in very surprising places.
Slight rawness is visible here and there on the OS, but for me it's no problem and only points out that things can just WORK - there's no need for them to be pretty shiney blingbling and coated in sugared rose petals (please-everyone is too often make-me-hate-it as it means giving up functionality unless done carefully), bundled with a cult membership. That said, the N900 certainly is not for everyone, fiddling with the still-in-testing repositories actually may require the user to know what he/she is doing, but for me it fills every phone and netbook need I have quite effortlessly - the only real nag I have about the device is that the screen could be a wee bit larger.
I've powered up by netbook once after that and my previous phone that has a clone SIM (my data plan includes two SIMs with the same number) has died on the shelf for lack of use, I maybe should charge it to keep the battery from rotting.
No, I don't regret spending all that money. Not one bit. I use my N900 daily, at least half an hour of Skype, full use of my university POP email, min. an hour of web browsing on the bus and on breaks between lectures, music playing on the background much of the time, idle time easily killed with the games. The device only truly rests and needs rest while I'm asleep, and even then it's breathing in its daily dose of electricity on the other side of the room I sleep in (I'm not a morning person, so if the alarm does not get me up from bed, I'll fall asleep again). It does everything I throw at it with such self-confidence that I've actually learned to trust it - my previous Symbian phones haven't been trustworthy due to bugginess and self-rebooting (I've had exactly one uncalled for reboot on my N900 and that was from messing with root mode) and my total three weeks of iPhone connection-dropping quasi-single-task hell (3G for four days and 3GS for the rest of the time) taught me to think twice before getting anything fruit-themed... If I want to be caged, I'll get married. HTC Hero's captouch panel does not like my fingers making it a usability nightmare and the G1 had a ridiculous but luckily faint red-green pattern on the screen from the sense capacitors that popped up with an ugly grin at me every time I looked at the screen for longer than a few seconds.
Uh, I'm glad those times are over... My blood pressure is back to normal and I've stopped worrying about not being available when I should be - now I am "online as it happens" on Skype, MSN and Gtalk - and let's not forget the WCDMA900 band rollout back here, I get 3G signal in very surprising places.
Slight rawness is visible here and there on the OS, but for me it's no problem and only points out that things can just WORK - there's no need for them to be pretty shiney blingbling and coated in sugared rose petals (please-everyone is too often make-me-hate-it as it means giving up functionality unless done carefully), bundled with a cult membership. That said, the N900 certainly is not for everyone, fiddling with the still-in-testing repositories actually may require the user to know what he/she is doing, but for me it fills every phone and netbook need I have quite effortlessly - the only real nag I have about the device is that the screen could be a wee bit larger.
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2010-02-06
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Originally Posted by DaveQB
Random rebooting? That's not good...
I love it!!! I would like a much better email client and the random rebooting to cease, but the rapid development of it so far through the community and Nokia gives me great hope all this will be addressed soon enough.
Even with these issues, it is fantastic!
Do you have sysklogd installed? It might give you some answers as to why that's happening.
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2010-02-06
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Originally Posted by Slick
As a newcomer to the forums and a n900 owner the reactions to this thread baffle me. A thread like this could have been a opportunity to take a cold hard look at any problems with maemo 5 & n900.
Of which I doubt any of you can call perfect. Nevertheless we see "glowing" comments to it's greatness(which makes me doubt the sincerity of the post) with only a couple obvious(to me)truthful comments. This tells me that some people in this community have some insecurities in regard to the n900 but why ? If it's as good as some have claimed couldn't it stand up on it's own merits ? Without attacking someone ? It just reminds me of the apple community at times and I don't think that's what we are looking for here. No device is without it's flaws, period. I'll offer up my honest heart felt assestment well more of a overview.
The n900 with maemo5 as a platform should be great but the device was launched missing functionality promised or indicated to be coming later. MMS, front facing video cam(cam disappear of tech spec list) are 2 important things that fall into this dilemma. Nokia gave every indication that they were working hard on the n900 and some features didn't make the launch window timeframe but would come after launch. But after launch we get a updates to prepare us for the ovi store.
I can't speak about it too much because I didn't update, but wouldn't a pure bug fix mms update go further rather then access to a service(+ a few updates) that they themselves admit needs to be changed and updated ? When you factor in that some amount of fixes are being being pushed into maemo6 then it starts to get scary if maemo6 isn't made available for n900, I for one would prefer a more stabile maemo5.
I can't go into bugs too much because I refuse the update, I shouldn't have to agree to anything for Nokia to give me the features it advertised. Even if they have to offer it as a straight firmware enabler/driver update with no additional update with the OS that would be more acceptable.
As far as being a phone the n900 lacks some basic functionality. As for being a MID it certainly packs a punch but it's always overshadowed by what it could be. And lastly in regards to redpill it was a mistake to remove it, even though I never really used it the end result is a loss of function and control of my device. If it really had a exploit of some sort then fix the problem and leave the functionality. The whole bricking your device isn't reason enough, I'm a big boy I can take it if I brick my device I'd replace it so add a disclaimer and let it be.
Honestly to me it just had a certain cool factor to it but anyway this is getting too long. So my answer would be for all of the stated reasons and specifics I didn't think it would be fair of me to get into yes I regret my purchase, it's nice but very incomplete.
If u r really a big boy, please use the xterminal. Otherwise stop asking for red pill mode. The decision to remove it was right one.