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It’s crystal clear by now that the Nokia N900 has almost nothing to do with the traditional Nseries values. The full QWERTY side-slider may look similar to its double-digit mates but the Maemo experience is completely different...
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i want 2 purchase nokia n 900
is it working good or not please say
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- 2011-11-18 18:14
- uwYM
- Anonymous
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> In reply to keflex @ 2011-01-23 10:55 from iieX - click to readSurprising to see the extent to which even reputed companies like Nokia can go to mislead users. While thier battery of agents and PR firms are doing what they are told to do by Nokia, it reflects bad on them that to sell their phone they can mislead people to this extent. We all know that tecjnically, its impossible to have vieeo calls over 3g network and that the front camera simply doesnt woek, still, nokia agents are making such tall claims.
SHAME ON NOKIA AND THEIR PR GUYS!
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- 2011-11-08 01:02
- 2@2n
- Nad
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> In reply to SAV @ 2011-01-06 17:56 from t}ax - click to readI totally agree with you.
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- 2011-09-14 01:18
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- Anonymous
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> In reply to keflex @ 2011-01-23 10:55 from iieX - click to readCould you please let everyone know how to make 3G video calls on N900? Even Nokia acknowledges that this is NOT possible....why are you misleading the prospective buyers? Please give the exact link as to how to make a Video call over a 3G network (NOT Skype calls over 3G)...
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- 2011-08-04 11:10
- PM5K
- Arvindan
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> In reply to SAV @ 2011-01-06 17:56 from t}ax - click to readThanks "SAV" - your comments were very helpful - though I initially ignored your comments and got swayed by a number of messages posted in response to yours, I later realized that all those were incorrect - perhaps Nokia's PR firm employees trying to salvage their client...Of course there are serious issues with N900 (including 3G video calling) and I finally disposed it off at 1/3rd the price. Happy with my Android now - wish, I had ignored these Nokia guys earlier...thanks for your comments anyway.
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- 2011-08-04 11:07
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- dlusnl
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I'm hoping that someone can help me here, i purchased a brand new Nokia N900 on the 17th/03/2010 and i was very happy and pleased with my choice especially since i have been a Nokia mobile fan for over 13 years, just 2 days ago my N900 stopped detecting my sim card and a message appeared on the screen stating " all telephony functions,including emergency calls, are disabled due to a communication error, to recover you might have to reboot the device" and i have tried that many times, i also tried cleaning my sim card, i went to vodafone and i got a new sim card but the problem persists, i put my sim in my friend's nokia c7 and it works fine so its not the sim's fault. is this a hardware problem or a software one? any help is highly appreciated, BTW I'm located in NZ
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- 2011-07-31 10:14
- uBUX
- Johnexo
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Nokia N900 is unique in terms of physical appearance and chrome edging calls for very less competition from other smartphones in the market. Operating system is pretty good to along with all the applications. Overall, this phone is a good entry by Nokia.
http://www.gsmcellulars.com/no...-device.html
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- 2011-06-03 08:29
- sUwU
- CHRISTIAN
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theres something wrong with my n900 it say's that ther is an internal error i cant use it please help
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- 2011-01-26 06:39
- uT%h
- keflex
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> In reply to SAV @ 2011-01-06 17:56 from t}ax - click to read1. It does NOT support video calls on 3G (not to be confused with
Skype video calls over 3G or WiFi)
Many users have been able to do this, myself included. If you have not, this is presumably an issue with QoS from your carrier.
2. using it in portrait form is an issue (most applications don't support that)
Yes, but it's been that way since release. Maemo has always been landscape-oriented and if you did not want this, then you made an ill-advised purchase and are simply angry at yourself for it.
3. no handwriting recognition
Yes there is. http://blog.atnnn.com/p/handwr...on-the-n900/
4. no voice commands
Can't really argue with this one but again, see my 2nd point.
5. NOT compatible even with basic Nokia (Ovi) services (like Ovi Maps with voice recognition - there is a very basic web based Ovi map support which sucks)
Sygic released voice navigation, and it is also available via Modrana. Nokia may not have provided 100& Ovi support, however many of the gaps in existence have been filled far more ably by the community regardless.
6. highly unreliable and VERY LIMITED (no more than 5-600) applications available
"Highly unreliable" is subjective, as is "very limited". Personally, I have not found myself wishing for any one particular feature my N900 lacks, and have found many that I did not expect/have welcomed. Do not assume your own dissatisfaction rings true universally.
7. Pathetic commitment from Nokia - I think some Avasthy has also uploaded some quote from Nokia on this thread to prove that
Pathetic is a bit of an overstatement, but it is vaguely accurate. Regardless, see the above comment re: the Maemo community.
8. Battery sucks - very bad
Depends on how much work you put into optimising your user experience; I'm assuming you haven't put much in.
9. Nokia centers can't provide proper support - they are bad guys....not trained at all....
I have never needed to call them myself, talk.maemo.org has provided any help I've needed and more.
10. Most seriously, it was the first, last and ONLY device on maemo platform so very soon, n900 users will be left on their luck....
Actually, there have been several Internet Tablets before the N900 and there will be several phones running on MeeGo in the future. Nice try though.
Okay, so you weren't happy with the N900. That's cool, it's definitely not for everyone; it rewards users who are willing to put a decent time investment into getting their unit working just right. But that doesn't justify dismissing the phone within all contexts. The N900 does some things that many phones would kill to do (Sixaxis support, Queen Beecon widgets, IM/Skype integration, etc.). Similarly, it has some shortcomings; the same could be said of Android. Just because these shortcomings matter less to you than those of Maemo does not make one platform better than the other, it makes the two different. I'd hope you could see the distinction to myself, but I get the funny feeling you're too short-sighted to understand.
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- 2011-01-23 10:55
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> In reply to SAV @ 2011-01-06 17:56 from t}ax - click to readN900 rules all my friend! If it wasn't what u were looking for, maybe u shouldve done your research. People please ignore this guy he knows not what he speaks. The N900 won the Smartphone World Championship. Nuff said....the people have spoken sir!
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- 2011-01-21 19:18
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- SAV
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Guys, Have used n900 for over 7 months now - have even flashed the firmware (now I am on PR1.3)...can say with great conviction that anyone who says that n900 is either a Nokia PR agent OR doesn't know what he's saying!!! I am a qualified electronics engineer and a gadget freak - can say that this device sucks. The negatives first - even after 18-20 months of release, till Jan:
1. It does NOT support video calls on 3G (not to be confused with
Skype video calls over 3G or WiFi),
2. using it in portrait form is an issue (most applications don't support that),
3. no handwriting recognition,
4. no voice commands,
5. NOT compatible even with basic Nokia (Ovi) services (like Ovi Maps with voice recognition - there is a very basic web based Ovi map support which sucks),
6. highly unreliable and VERY LIMITED (no more than 5-600) applications available,
7. Pathetic commitment from Nokia - I think some Avasthy has also uploaded some quote from Nokia on this thread to prove that;
8. Battery sucks - very bad;
9. Nokia centers can't provide proper support - they are bad guys....not trained at all....
10. Most seriously, it was the first, last and ONLY device on maemo platform so very soon, n900 users will be left on their luck....
All of us know that other Nokia devices like c7, n97 etc are on the super-flop Symbian platform...Guys use Android device to believe it - have junked my n900 in favor of Android and am really happy with it for last 27 days....
Nokia PR guys - please rather than focusing energy on activities like online image management, ask Nokia to focus on device management and on listening to consumers first....
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- 2011-01-06 17:56
- t}ax
- kojack
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> In reply to gazmatic @ 2010-09-05 05:34 from QuDx - click to readbro i wnt to know about nokia n900?it's good to buy or not? how about the Maemo os from u'r experience?
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- 2010-11-26 11:15
- ibXk
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when the nokia is releaseing the next software update to the n 900
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- 2010-11-19 11:17
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i totally agree with you gazmatic! i have got the device out of the box...at frist i thought what is this!
but now i can hardly leave it once i turn it on!
in fact i dont leave it until it dies on my hand..put it back on charger..waiting for it to come back to life again to turn it on and so on!which is the only down side to it!
so if you guys want a pure cell phone you are at the wroung page..move on! if you wana get your brain work a bit harder and looking for A PC (S) SIZE THEN THATS WHAT YOU NEED N900!
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- 2010-10-31 03:53
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- Comrade Spear
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After 3 months of using this phone I seriously tried to love this phone and I really wanted to maintain my faith in Nokia but can't help but conclude that this phone was a half baked attempt to keep up with the smartphones race. Nokia introduced marketing spin to define the N900 as a tablet... there's an app to make this phone a pure tablet and that's what I'll be using it for. My full review can be read here:
http://ontargetreviews.blogspo...nths-of.html
I also have some tips on my blog to get more productivity out of the n900
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- 2010-10-30 05:13
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- gazmatic
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Listen. No seriously stop and read. I will try not to insult anybody. This phone is not to be compared with other phones because technically it is not a phone. It is a MOBILE COMPUTER WITH PHONE CAPABILITIES and it is definitely NOT for the "average" phone user. Comparing a phone to a computer is not fair on any terms and frankly, this SUPER POWERFUL DEVICE out competes all PHONES on the market right now. This phone is a POWERHOUSE and a GEEK MACHINE. It does literally anything computer-wise that you would want it to do. I have personally installed, on separate occasions, Windows NT, 95, XP and Mac Os on my "phone". Why? because I freaking can!!! I have owned the iPhone(my very first iPhone), HTC Desire and the Samsung galaxy. Honestly, the iPhone was alright. It did what it was supposed to do but didn't impress too much. It is like a toy and for people who know nothing about technology and couldn't car less what a device can or cannot do. I gave it to my 10 year old sister.The desire is a very nice, very very nice PHONE comparable to the galaxy. Now, when i first got my hands on the n900 it didn't impress compared... but then... I fell in love with it. After much experiments... A LOT OF EXPERIMENTS. I found out that the n900 was waaay better the the others. whatever it doesn't have straight out of the box there are people who can help you. Literally ANYTHING. You just have to do A LOT of searching. but... once in your hands your ONLY complaint would be the battery life. There are ways to help that but.... YOU WILL NOT WANT TO PUT IT DOWN....AFTER you HAVE UNLOCKED its POTENTIAL. Novices and "normal phone users will not be impressed because they would realize that they actually have to use a percentage of their brain now and again... Who wants to do that? If your not knowledgeable of Linux... Learn. Its easy and it helps.
Hardware: The phone is very robust and survives a lot of mistreatment.I have forgotten it in the freezer once and it still forges along. The keyboard grows on you and the back cover is firmly on.
Software: The PR1.2 firmware is out. Learn how to flash and get it done. You will not regret but follow the guidelines carefully! You can flash it to more than 600MHz. I recommend nothing above 900MHz.
Media: no converting videos and it plays basically all file types. However it does index EVERY media file into your library so that may be annoying but not a big issue.
Camera: Beautiful. Breathtaking for something that is NOT a professional camera.
Audio: I love my phone to disturb the place but this doesn't do that but the sound is loud enough and very crisp and clear.
Connectivity: I have basically...every social "whatever I need on the phone. Msn, yahoo, Facebook, Skype, you name it. Full internet browsing. I have actually forgotten my laptop at times.
In short. If you want a phone that does what it is supposed to do. Don't get an iPhone. Iphones are for posers, girls, gays and electronic idiots. Get a nice Htc desire or a wimpy Samsung wave or the very nice Galaxy. However, If you want a device that could BLOW YOUR MIND!!! The obvious choice is the n900. IT DOES basically EVERYTHING.
P.S. if I have offended anyone, I am sorry that is just my opinion I should be entitled to it, as you are to yours if you choose not to agree with what I say.
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- 2010-09-05 05:34
- QuDx
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