my biggest disappointment with my n900 = biggest opportunity.
no search for: sms, contact fields other than name, email, notes calendar, tasks.
Inadequate PIM no: task descriptions, categories (groupings), poor calendar functions.
this is where iPhone and Android as samsung and Sony Ericsson are also week. solutions to all the above are extensively discussed in the bug forum. come on Nokia! i am actively trying to find a solution but it looks like i'll have to wait until palm adds a better camera and removable memory to there next device.

Actually most of the comments I've made and seen are just the opposite. The hope is that open source and systems will prevail. The fear is that the walled gardens will conquer all.

I once saw Nokia as the milestone setter in the smartphone industry. Today they lag behind most major companies in terms of support and innovation when it comes to smartphones. I can't believe I bought into this N900 thinking that Maemo or MeeGo would beat Android and Iphone OS in most aspects. It starting to look like the N900 was just a alpha phase phone for a platform that won't be completed before the end of 2010. I know the unforseen bad timing that involved Maemo and MeeGo, but why do we have to pay the price for the lack of an organized transition.

Rate this thread 1 star if you want. My opinion won't change your allegiance to Nokia. I'm just being realistic of the situation and if it won't lose its fanboys during the next few months it will lose those who bought into the idea that Nokia is above Apple and Google.

If only Nokia would release PR 1.2 or at least give us a release date instead of playing delay games with its own clients who bought into their "flagship phone" hype.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=50755&page=10

and the rest of pages.

Personally, I am now a lot more satisfied with my N900 when I stopped thinking of it as a phone. It is not a phone, it is an ultra portable linux appliance with focus on the internet and data networking. I have yet to make a single GSM/UMTS voice call - I only use Skype out over 3/3.5G or WiFi.

I use the N900 so much now that I have to remember to switch to my laptop. The N900 cannot replace my desktop workstation, but it has severely cut into the time that I spend using my laptop.

With a fast WiFi connection the MicroB and even Firefox browsers are extremely fast and responsive, I now also have full ssh access through xterm, and push email across three of my main accounts works very well.

I mean this tiny N900 multitasks so well and quickly enough that it is stretching my own information processing ability... iPhone, Android, cannot do this. The comical iPhone OS 4 "multitasking" does not rate a mention.

The mechanical keyboard is awesome too and messaging works in a really clever way.

My recent "discovery" of the web page zooming gestures also transformed my browsing experience - continuous zooming on the MicroB beats multi touch hands down.

Yes, many basic things do not work and I am as eager as anyone to have them enabled or fixed, but right now, for me, there is simply nothing better than my N900.

V.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.



Sorry, someone had to do it.

Pray more..and Nokia will come into your heart.

cool story man

It's a different battle than what was waged on the desktop. We don't have open, modular and commoditized hardware. There is no preinstalled base of users to 'convert'. The stacks above the OS are arguably already more open than those on windows super-dominance era, thanks to the oss efforts before this.

It's a different battleground out there..

Just because you can't see PR 1.2 doesn't mean it isn't there.