Huh? Whut? Me?

What-did-I-do?

Look, you want to waste an evening, I got an open fire, chocolate, warm English beer and good malt whisky. Sheesh! Spend all night fiddling with a computer and blame it on a girl. Typical!

Luckily I had at least some nice Irish whisky with me. Too bad I'm not willing to burn my books to simulate a fire place

I never burn books, though I may have to get rid of some as my library is overflowing and there's no room for more shelves. Fire is logs, a bit of coal, and the bills.

Digitise some of your Irish whisky and PM it me.

some (p)reviews argue about lack of apps widgets etc of a device thats atm only shipped about 400- times and not out on the market for sale!

the n900 is a nice special tech savvy and will start to glow in my hands once it is shipped but I doubt that some of the kiddy style fashion victims apple points to will buy a n900 for the same reasons I do!

I read as many (p)reviews as I could find via google and maemo-talk and seriously the more I read the more I am pissed about the lack of intelligence, also the talking in here about "missing that and missing this" the device is on pre-order and nokia will do its best to get it as good as possible within this month till release, or do you think there is another reason for keeping it back another month instead of "public made nokia aware of serious lack of features needed to have it more phone like" (I know most of the nxx0 guys would'nt bother). for a proper smartphone-tablet there are some features missing known as MMS, an island, portrait mode and keyboard and other stuff, but believe me its just software and for linux its just a missing file!

the thread-name: "...apparently not" for me its not a phone and its not perfect... yet! what is perfect is related to what you are in need of and what you expect it to be to solve problems you wouldnt have without it. its not in my hands yet but I can tell if I should choose between 500eur n900 and a gifted iPhone 3GS, I choose the n900. why? (OSS vs Jail).

I see the points of people complaining about lack of this and that but I dont get why any lack of software is a reason to not buy this device. AFAIK there will be at least one freaking nerd who is pissed of not having some feature and spends some nights on coding-forking-recompiling to solve this! I for one want all this uploading pictures thing doing resize and watermarking on my pictures and upload it to my site instead of some google-nokia-commercial service. I havent thought of solving this yet, there might be one who could do that in a few hours and will do, or it will take me some days to figure out how or you have a solution ready.. I dont know but there will be one and thats not a single case. if there is a problem and you cant/wont solve it yourself, ask the community to make this device as feature-rich as you want it to be and maybe some people say "hey good idea I want that on my nXXX too! how can I help?" thats the way OSS development works, sometimes its fast sometimes not, but at least there is development you can help with even if you just send some coffee to your favourite dev-team!

It wouldn't be much worse than drinking it from the bottle.

Irish is to Scotch as the iPhone is to the N900.

Hi,

I am the author of the article that started this thread. Got here a bit late, sorry about that.

Just read through it all, mostly liked it, and am open for discussion.

Though there were some of you calling me an idiot and other names for that story.

And I had a really good time composing a reply for one of you, who was bothered enough to get to my site and call me as having "idiopathic, self-indulging, hypocritical, ignorant, mind set"...That was a real fun, but a waste of time.

Anyway, I'm here to respond to any questions and critique to what I wrote.

And I have even more today.

After installing quite a few apps from test repository, and playing around with my N900, it is starting to act funny. The thing I tweeted: "Weird reactions, slowdowns, problems downloading files, gpodder app stopped working, etc;"...
And then I got this reply from Eldar Murtazin from mobile-review.com:
"lol, just beginning put more data see more slowdown"

I just hope it's because of the pre-release software and beta apps I installed.

Geezus, qole, without me there to yank you away from taxis???

@Staska

gPodder is a community port without real testing and not from Nokia. I guess you have read the warning before downloading maemo-extra?

I know many of you have your own N900s and probably all of you have read several reviews and seen a lot of videos of the N900 already. Nevertheless, here are my $0.02 about the N900:

http://kypeli.blogspot.com/2009/10/w...okia-n900.html

Good review. Brightened my morning! Thank you.