Comments on: The Competition: Nokia Goes Maemo, Announces N900

By: jhr

jhr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:50 +0000

It has a Radio and a Radio transmitter..

By: zaki

zaki — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:12:01 +0000

bon caleter d'image ,

Le Nokia N900 pr�tend remplacer un PC miniature. Pour la premi�re fois, il fonctionne avec l'OS Maemo 5

http://mobile-news-2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/nokia-n900.html

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:33:20 +0000

It looks great but I'd love it if it had a radio and an 8 megapixel camera. But those are minor complaints.

By: Laitela

Laitela — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:58:12 +0000

N900 beats iSheep in every aspect. Nokia FTW

By: epgomez

epgomez — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:52:44 +0000

Yeah iphone will come out with something but at that time nokia will come out with something better! Again silly fanboys.... iphone future versus nokia now. chicken and egg thing. apple is still behind in camera and battery technology. they are just good in software GUI!

By: epgomez

epgomez — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:48:10 +0000

now this is the true internet and pc in your pocket not the iphone which cannot multitask and HTML internet. It's a PC and a phone and more than a smartphone. It's not for iphone "kids" but for serious gadget users. You can do anything a computer desktop can do on this. plus good camera with flash! and debian linux!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:04:58 +0000

800×600 screen...(though what’s up with 1GB of application memory?!) -- I know this is not a Nokia centric page and mistakes happen, but please don't post wrong specs when they are not misquoted anywhere else:

The device has a WVGA screen (which makes it 800x480) and 256 MB memory which can be boosted to 1 GB by up to 768 MB of virtual memory. Nokia should not have mentioned this at all as it is misleading at best.

By: smchrist2

smchrist2 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:12:46 +0000

I have to admit good specs. Apple could add 5 MP camera but knows it's useless without a bigger lens. I do LOVE the screen resolution though. I think apple will next year add a 480 and 720 models. (2 different models and prices). That would be AWESOME. And those models with a 1 and 1.2 GHz processor. Maybe even two cores?

Btw. 1.2 GHz is the same speed as the low end Dell adamo (LOL!) and apples about to top that with a phone within 8 months!!!

By: Green Sleeves

Green Sleeves — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:52:18 +0000

@christexaport

"Why is it useful on the desktop and wasteful on the mobile?"

Battery life and/or processing power....or lack there of. My buddy's Pre runs dry in a matter of a few short hours if he's heavily multi-tasking not to mention bottlenecking.

By: christexaport`

christexaport` — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:28:28 +0000

Why are all the iPhans hating on the keyboard? Isn't having one better than none at all? Its an optional input method, not the only one.

BTW, although the N97 isn't stable enough to do so as of today, I routinely ran 15+ apps at once on my N95 8gb and N82. I'm pretty sure some of you guys have that many windows open on your PCs or Macs, so what's so hard to understand about multitasking? Why is it useful on the desktop and wasteful on the mobile? I couldn't make it without it!

When you're streaming music from Skyfire, browsing via the default browser, chatting in Nimbuzz while exchanging files, downloading torrents with SymTorrent, P2P sharing and downloading via the Symella Gnutella client, copying text from emails into my wordpress app, and uploading photos to Ovi, all while tracking your movements with sports tracker at the same time, you'll begin to wonder why the iPhone wastes its hardware for a serial app platform common with featurephones.

Catch up with the times! Its not a phone, its a portable mini PC.

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:48:09 +0000

The first link in the story tells you that.

By: BBYM

BBYM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:42:47 +0000

What's the screen size?

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:14:30 +0000

Thanks for correction my typo when you quoted me.

By: fastlane

fastlane — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:06:15 +0000

And kids, please stop whining about the keyboard ok? Gets old after a while.

Not as old as the nine whining Google Voice threads.

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:57:30 +0000

I posted in the forums about this last week.

There is an extensive review about it here: http://tinyurl.com/l24qrj Its far more detailed than Nokia Experts review.

And kids, please stop whining about the keyboard ok? Get old after a while.

It has an on-screen keyboard as well so you can continue to ignore spelling, paragraphs, punctuation, and everything you ever learned in the 6th grade, just like you do when you post from your iPhone.

By: Mav

Mav — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:39:32 +0000

The next iPhone model will top this:

-Redesigned looks. -1-1.2GHz processor (possibly Apple-made, optimised for iPhone OS). -Hi-resolution OLED display -HD video playback and recording. -Multitasking -32/64GB memory -Enhanced voice-control (controls app launch, search, UI change) -Adaptive home screen UI (depends on the time of day, "mood") -One more thing!

Here it is.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:35:27 +0000

Ick. That keyboard is raunchy. Right side located space bar, no thanks and that top row looks cramped against the screen. I'm a virtual keys kind of guy though so some might like that.

By: Tyrone K

Tyrone K — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:31:33 +0000

OMG...I wanted a N97 but was hesitant because there was no T-Mobile 3g support...butthis is going to be the best phone ever....Nokia has always been good!!!!

By: Matt B

Matt B — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:54:10 +0000

I like the way it looks! If I didn't have an iPhone I'd get it. The keyboard does look really small but I'm sure I'd get used to it eventually. The specs are really good too. 1gb of ram sounds great!

By: jonar1us

jonar1us — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:48:47 +0000

when will. Appke change the look of the iphine...atleast release an assortment of colors...

By: fastlane

fastlane — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:17:36 +0000

It would take me ten minutes to type my name on that P.O.S.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:01:12 +0000

It looks cool and all but what's with the tiny keyboard?

By: d.allen

d.allen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:59:54 +0000

Phone looks awesome.. Hope the next iphone has a little different look to it then the current model.. as.. well, its getting old on my eyes.. still love my phone, just a little tired of the look(which was helped a little with winterboard.. but not much)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:52:05 +0000

can not stand the layout of the keyboard cool looking phone just not my thing. wonder if nokia tweaked the ui and put their bloat ware in there. the whole multitasking things i dont understand however i would like to respond to a text in a pop up window instead of having to go to messages then back.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:40:33 +0000

The question of the 1 gig of application memory can be answered by multi-tasking.

Unlike the iPhone approach that maintains performance through limiting open applications (core apps +1 for the most part) the nokia appears to have been designed around acting more like a computer than a iPhone. They claim to allow dozens of apps to run at one time. Though whats the value of running 10 or 15 applications at once - seems to be more wasteful than anything else...

Also with such a nascent platform "ovi" wont be able to supply more than a few hundred apps in the first few months.

By: BBYM

BBYM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:47 +0000

I guess I won't be buying the n97 n e more...

By: Dmys

Dmys — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:03:25 +0000

While it looks very sexy, the keyboard is not.