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im excited to get my hands on eathier the samsung moment or the htc hero.im getting one today.but whuch one is best??
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so i still prerfer winmo standard, the overlooked platform that trumps winmo pro for stability and speed. and samsung make these best
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I have to say, when Verizon wants to market a phone, they do it WELL. Not that it would work for a junk device… the Droid is a sweet device, but just sayin… they know how to get the hype going.
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Great Video Recording.
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I would say that I’m most excited for the DROID, but … seeing that someone is down-voting all the DROID responses and up-voting BlackBerry responses, I’ll just lie and say I’m most excited for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 … =-)
(And in truth, I *was* most excited about the BlackBerry Bold 9700 *until* the DROID came on the scene. And yes, feel free to down-vote me. haha)
The N900 is going to smoke all these devices. Too bad americans are too stupid to recognize nokia as the sickest mobile company.
Not so fast on the American stupidity. Its not the users, its the carriers. Most of the top mobile industry bloggers are US based, especially the Symbian and Maemo bloggers. That includes me. The DFW area, Silicon Valley, and NY have great Nokia based bloggers. Once these carriers learn they help by giving more freedom and choice, everyone can get the chance to know the truth. Nokia is running the mobile world, and mostly because they make better stuff than we can ever get in America through the normal channels.
The N900 isn’t going to ’smoke’ anything.
It’s Nokia’s so-so hardware with an OS that has minimal support.
Since you seem to think you know what you’re talking about, I’d like to hear which devices, released or announced, you think are poised to usurp the N900 as the leader in the phone space.
Nokia has always been the leader in device hardware, though they did slow down production of high end hardware on their Symbian devices. In hindsight, this was because of the focus on Maemo for the high end, and Symbian’s pause in current OS development in favor of a new UI and refined kernel architecture. We’ve only now begun to see the cameras, dual processors, and audio speaker quality that rivals the highest end Nokia smartphones. If you disagree, make your views known. I’d love to hear them. It’s interesting to hear those unfamiliar with this industry from a global perspective talk about limiting hardware on other devices and see them as an upgrade when they aren’t.
So, lain, what devices do you see out there running a full Linux kernel, running 1GB or RAM, boasting full 3D hardware acceleration, better battery life, better call quality and signal strength, a more versatile display with such high resolution, as much potential (48+GB) and solid state NAND (32GB) storage, and an OS supporting more developer toolkits and hardware APIs than the N900? What device have you seen that runs full apps in the background, already proven to run at least 24 with no issues, including playing Flash videos on websites in its sexy Mozilla browser? What devices have been slated to get the Firefox browser ported? Not Android or the others, since Mozilla has already said the OS isn’t robust enough, and there’s too much latency from the Dalvik VM.
Some devices have a faster main processor core, but without the efficient OS kernel and mature memory management, its not a fair comparison. The N900 is a portable DESKTOP device, as in it competes with netbooks running Ubuntu and Windows 7, something no Android, iPhone, WinMo, RIM, Symbian, or WebOS device could ever do. So until whatever devices you prefer can handle such lofty duties, give it a rest. There is no competitor in the N900’s space. Period.
HTC Eris FTW Even though I love my Tour :X lol Nothing else really stands out that is coming out for VZW, but the DROIDS are going to stick it in Steve Jobs’ EAR! like RIGHT IN THE F’ing EAR!
nokia sux ass!go fuck ur n900.
This is what we’re up against. No wonder Nokia can’t sell these guys devices! They’re not wise enough to write in sentences… Grow up, toursux. I’m sure you’d be a porn watching idiot if you had an N900, but you probably really have a Razr anyway.
nobody’s interested in the Omnia Pro (7630)? it’s gorgeous!
N900 is my choice, but I’ll wait and see what the next Iphone has in store. I’m well invested in apps that I use everyday for work. Always loved Nokia phones, just didn’t like the N97 and went for the Iphone3gs. No big fanboy of anything, I get what I think suits me at that time. I would like to see the N900 thin out just a bit, I feel its too bulky for me, from all the vids I’ve seen, it really emulates the desktop closer than any phones I’ve seen. Maemo OS is the way to go for Nokia.
Be careful, jonathan. The apps you bought for the iPhone would be obsolete with the N900’s browser. If the iPhone had a Flash enabled browser, it wouldn’t need half the apps, since they could make web based apps with a richer interface.
On the bulk issue, the main thing that adds bulk is the keyboard and camera. If you want a true high quality video/image capture camera sensor with pro level optics, you have to allow a little more depth. Same for the keyboard. Look at the Droid’s keyboard reviews. Its all from not having enough depth for the keys to travel.
The N900 doesn’t emulate the desktop. It IS the desktop. Its basically Ubuntu Linux with a touch interface for mobile optimization, to put it in layman’s terms. Maemo is Linux, not Linux based, as I hear many people say. It is only different because of its custom UI and PIM apps, nothing more. Nokia may be better off calling it Maemo Linux to drive that point home.
As fast as things moved with prices and soon multicarrier support…
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That is the best feature on the N900, the desktop. As far as the bulk, I was hoping the N900 went for a virtual keyboard instead. This is just personal preference since I am fairly used to and faster on a virtual keyboard. I will try to get some hands on when it hits T-mobile. I would have to pay the penalty fee if I make the switch, but we’ll see. All I’m saying is that out of all the phones that coming out, the N900 and Maemo is the best. I guess its all the Nokia smartphones I’ve had in the past. My biggest concern are the apps available for it and its accessability. How well stocked is the Ovi Store now? Another question: I don’t want to pay the unlocked price, if I go with Tmobile, can I unlock this somewhere?
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And it works globally.
To get an Android device to work well you have to manipulate just as much as one does when Jailbreaking an iphone. While very little of you new bandwagon Verizon Android fans know what rooting is, you might want to look it up because after you realize stock Android isn’t all that great you will want to know how. 2.0 is supposed to be better, but NONE of you aside from BGR and other bloggers have seen it, so maybe some of you are getting a tad over-zealous with your over the top fanboy-isms.
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1. The UI is customizable.
2. Multitasking.
3. Ability to use alternative applications that mimic the defaults.
4. Homebrew apps.
5. Better image capture abilities.
6. Support for better hardware and screen resolutions.
7. Widget support for on the go information gathering.
8. Open application development ecosystem.
9. Service integration at the platform level, even though only for Google, is better than Apple, which has no integrated services I know of.
5. Flash in the browser.
I know all about ROOT, being a Maemo blogger and Linux user. Try this. What can the iPhone do that an Android device can’t? I hear so much about the iPhone, but besides the UI, which is in the eye of the beholder, what does it have over Android, WinMo, Symbian, or Maemo??
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Wow, could you sound like a bigger Apple Fanboy?
Until Apple makes an iPhone with a user-accessible battery and allows music files that are not “iTunes compatible,” your device is flawed. And btw, “TONY,” jizz is never capitalized. Unless you’re an ass clown… But, then again, you already knew that
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It’s a catch 22. The iphone will forever be the benchmark for a fluid, although lacking, user experience because it doesn’t do all those things you listed. If you brought the best of the rest to iphone OS, Apple would have to ramp up the hardware specs to keep up, and also the price to maintain their steep margins. Alas, there’s no market for selling the iphone for $500 subsidized or a grand outright. It’s no different than why a comparable hardware spec’ed PC is about a grand less than a Mac. I, for one, don’t see the need to pad the pockets of Steve Jobs and Co.
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Ruh-roh, raggy.