Comments on: Nokia N900 review, part 1. First impressions. Things I really liked

By: JohnS

JohnS — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:49:38 +0000

lol - hilarious post and subsequent comments. guess it doesn't take much to impress you. not much of a pre-release since i'm at almost 2-months of owning this thing. we all got pre-pre-releases with much more than a couple bugs, a few few missing features and that kind of battery life (either embellished OR a lot or heavy use == setting it on your desk for 5 hours with no email, active widgets, calls, etc.... there is NO way).

weird posting so won't bother with part 2. just visit bugs on mameo org or their forums and don't worry about listening to me. read how many bugs, enhancement requests (many have been closed by nokia with no plans to add even the most basic of features) and how much pure pain this far from complete device is causing everyone.

oh, yes it is a phone. why else would they give us a tiny chiclet keyboard, a small screen, no ability to use a bluetooth keyboard (they have officially said they won't add), no dpad, stray so far from the comfortable, more usable N8*0s that I still have to keep with me for many reasons? ah, i forgot, why exactly would they make it a, well, phone?

don't worry about your skype bill, too many are complaing about boatloads of issues. front camera? firmware problem and only one junk app in the testing repo to use it for something (couldn't figure out what) with nokia not having plans for video calls or anything else with it. infrared? well, it's there, but they don't plan on doing anything with it, but there is a flakey app in testing that might let you use it as a remote.

wish i knew all of this in the first couple weeks so i could return. i wasn't impressed, but figured they'd be updating untils i spent time on mameo/nokia site. most their focus is on maemo6, which most likely won't run on your expensive 1/4 complete n900.

still waiting for an update to fix the myriad bluetoothe problems that they knew about before release. well, any update would be nice because it can't get any worse.

more like step 2 of 5 that will be lucky to reach 3 based on what they've been saying on maemo's site.

By: JohnS

JohnS — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:49:38 +0000

By: Iphone 3GS vs N900

Iphone 3GS vs N900 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:57:36 +0000

Hi everybody,
Let me tell you my experience base on true story. I wanna know which mobile phone is the best either Iphone or N900. I drop both phone in the pool (5ft depth). You know what !!! N900 win. Cuz N900 can get a call in 5ft depth water. Can’t you believe it!!! Water proof, you can enjoy talking in the water. Nice Tried.

By: bhavesh123

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By: rpcutts

rpcutts — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:11:20 +0000

3 times on 3 different blogs you reply to my comment with the exact same response.
What's the point?

By: pinoytutorial

pinoytutorial — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:07:47 +0000

good memory, a hefty amount of storage 32GB + 16GB external micro SD – qwerty keyboard – 5MP camera .. Quad Band.

Ovi Maps instead of Google Maps? Where are the precious facebook and twitter apps?

detailed sources: http://bit.ly/nokia-900-full-specs-details-best…

Its good to see Nokia finally release a new breed of their communicator series, I just hope it won't turn out to be another “average” phone.

By: Matias

Matias — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:58 +0000

I am waiting for part 3!

By: davidmaxwaterman

davidmaxwaterman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:04:52 +0000

telepathy-extras gives you some more IM support - I now have available:

Ovi by Nokia
Skype
AIM
Gadu Gadu
Google Talk
GroupWise
ICQ
IRC
Jabber
MSN
MSN (Haze)
QQ
SIP
Salut
Sametime
Yahoo

I heard that some of them don't work so well, so perhaps that's why they're not in the main one. YMMV. At least it shows what they're aiming for. I'm currently signed in for AIM, GTalk, MSN, Ovi, Skype, and Yahoo, and regularly use GTalk and Skype.

By: DJC

DJC — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:45 +0000

A brake?

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:14:53 +0000

Part 2 is here: http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/10/15/nokia-n90...

By: john

john — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:03:16 +0000

where is the part 2

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:24:25 +0000

Speakers OK for a mobile device, IMHO. On par with N95

By: Sophie

Sophie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:20:48 +0000

Hii!

I have a question!!

How is the audio? I mean are the speakers loud or on par with the N95?

Thanksss x

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:44:42 +0000

HAve no idea. Never used it, and didn't even lnow it's possible

By: chrisphillers

chrisphillers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:54:49 +0000

cool:)

By: chrisphillers

chrisphillers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:54:25 +0000

Because Yahoo/MSN isnt integrated yet..

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:44:35 +0000

I used and liked Fring on S60. But I wonder what will be the point in using Fring on N900, if all your IM accounts are natively integrated into your phone/contacts anyway?

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:42:56 +0000

It seems that missing IM services will get to N900 very soon. Some of them probably even before official launch.

Found a plugin for MSN (beta version), installed it and now MSN natively integrated with my phone book. JUst like Skype and GTalk.

Haven't found any way to make video calls yet, though.

By: Staska

Staska — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:39:23 +0000

It's up now: http://bit.ly/3f3Y14

By: chrisphillers

chrisphillers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:55:44 +0000

Fring (a multiple IM client) is ready on the N900 – this allows the use of MSN, yahoo etc etc.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:04:46 +0000

hey does the n900 have a sms signature? i operate a business and most of my other phones i used, had an option for it, just wondering if the n900 did?

By: Holdn

Holdn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:58:56 +0000

When is part 2 of your review coming? …. Can wait to hear what you dont like about this “God” like phone.

By: Staska

Staska — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:47:12 +0000

Yahoo and MSN messengers are not yet supported on N900. At the moment integrated IM/VoIP services are: Skype, GTalk, Jabber.

And for now, I haven't found any way to use friont facing camera. But it's early days, I haven't explored all the things in N900. Haven't even tested the main camera. Also more firmware updates are coming, so things can change pretty soon

By: Staska

Staska — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:40:05 +0000

No and no to both. It did not have CD in a box and is not yet supported by OVI Suite 2.

But I have only a pre-release model so such things can be expected. I'm sure, in a commercial release these issues will be fixed.

By: Staska

Staska — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:37 +0000

No. It does not have voice navigation. And it uses the old OVI Maps 1.

Haven't tested other VoIP services, except for Skype (which worked flawlesly). May to that some time later.

By: dansus

dansus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:35:17 +0000

Dialcentral will do Google Voice and others soon.

Web on 3G is great.

MMS due Dec 09.

Tethering, yes.

By: karim

karim — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:32:08 +0000

can you please tell us if you can use the front facing camera for video chat on yahoo messanger or msn
if not then where can u use it
i read some where that it could be used for 3g video calling does that mean that u could do that on tmobile

By: happy4578

happy4578 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:54:10 +0000

Great review… cant wait for the next part.
I have a few questions.
Did you get to use Google Voice? I Ask because Ive been using it on my pre alot lately and need it to work out the box.
Hows the 3G web browsing speed?
Also any word MMS being included?
Lastly is there a tethering app for this phone something like Joiku for Maemo 5?

By: Mypeachtree

Mypeachtree — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:45:53 +0000

Thank you so much for this information. It most definitely sounds more promising than the N97, I am glad I held off. I have this baby on preorder at Buy.com for $565.00 including 2 day shipping.

One question.......Does it sync with Ovi files software or is there a newer CD packaged with the N900?

Thanks,
Barry

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:56:09 +0000

Great review! The battery seems impressive considering the heavy usage/testing that you did!

How's the GPS? Does it come with a voice navigation software. I supposed OVI map was the default and owners have to pay for a turn-by-turn navigation. Any Maemo apps that does a similar job to TomTom?

It would be nice if know how it performs with mainstream VOIP services like Voipbuster and Sipgate.

By: Staska

Staska — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:12:44 +0000

No, it did not.

It died after 8 hrs of heavy use. And I mean real heavy. All the time
connected to home WLAN, intensive net browsing, downloads, video streaming,
video playback, music playback, running multiple apps, etc;

With more moderate use, while on the road, I think it should last through
the day.

We'll see soon enough, I guess.

By: rpcutts

rpcutts — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:46:47 +0000

Thanks for this. I'm pleased to hear the screen is responsive.
I'm eager to hear if the battery makes it to the end of a day…. I'd like not to have a spare batter in my other pocket.