i don't imagine any mass-production consumer oriented phones will come with resistive any more, from any manufacturer.

It's easy to build up expectations but I feel people should be a little more realistic about what will most likely happen.

Nokia only tends to surprise people in a negative way.. bear this in mind.

The N900 was a great device and still is.. it was just poorly supported, 3 firmware updates in 2 years is bad by any standards. The device was capable of so much more.

So now we may have a new device imminent.. i'm obviously excited too, but all i'm really expecting is something that will look similar to the E7 and that will probably have very similar specs under the hood.. it would be foolish to think Nokia is going to release a beast..

Is this an improvement on the N900 though? Of course it is..

Is it worth lashing out another €500 for? I don't know yet...


I'm glad it won't be full MeeGo in any case.. I liked the feel of Maemo so when it comes out i'll try it out before deciding on commiting to a purchase.. then if i do, maybe in a year when there is a stable usable version of MeeGo to download i'll make the jump.. but i certainly won't be making any blind decisions like I did with the N900..

Last year I bought into the Nokia PR about how Maemo was the next generation platform for years to come.. and i think like every other N900 user, we were burnt by false promises

Now we all have some choices.. do we jumo brand, start using HTC, LG, Samsung.. whatever.. OR.. start using the Nokia WP7 which is sure to have great support..

OR..

Stick with something just a little different?

The screen was capacitive.

Comparing it to the E7, it is much more mediasexy. The E7 was like a tank, you could club a dozen applefanatics with it and wouldn´t make a dent to it´s casing.

This one had a lighter feel to it. But it didn´t look cheap or anything. I liked it, only wish the would have made the screen without the elevation.

Hope that they fix lot of the problem I saw( the touchscreen not working fluently, the task manager been a total letdown)

Sorry that I couldn´t answer all the questions with exact detail, but as I said, I was only a looking over the shoulder of the usage of this thing.

Not just the device, I really like Maemo 5 UX too. It's nowhere near perfect, but basic things like multitasking with dashboard and status bar are nicely done. Hopefully MeeGo-Harmattan makes things even better.

One more thing.

I didn´t see any widgets or shortcuts on the homescreen.
Yep, homescreen, not homescreens.

Everything was started from the main menu, like iPhone. Well almost everything. The settings where accessed from the top of the screen Don´t know if this is the only way, but sure gonna miss the editable homescreen(s) if that is the case.

did the interface look anything like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INVlmjJKXjk

Nope, the N9 image that have been on the net for a long time
( this one )
, and thats it. You just press the "button" on the middle of the screen and that opens the main menu.... like in iPhone....

Might be that it was on it´s default settings, so might have gotten wrong impression from it.

Hmm.. is that a physical button?

Edit: Nope, thanks Zymo for the reply below

there is no physical button on the front. Look here is another Image showing the device in potrait-mode.

If you want resistive, go China:

http://www.techrockstar.com/2011/05/...ndroid-2-3-os/