Bye Bye N900. I’m returning you.
The N900 is a phone and mobile computer all rolled into 1 device. I started to fall in love with it after seeing so many videos on youtube showing off all the things it was capable of doing. The specs of it are awesome too. So I did something that I normally don’t do which is just splurge on something I really don’t need. Unfortunatly it was a bad decision on my part because the n900 was kind of a fail. Thankfully I had an easy time returning it.
I’m not saying the n900 is an epic fail. There are lots of great things about the device. But overall the N900 is not ready to be my phone. Maybe sometime in the future we will meet again and fall in love but the device is going to need a lot of software for that to happen.
I liked a lot of things about the device but the negatives outweighed the postivies in the end. There is a lack of applications for the device since the Maemo 5 platform is still in its infancy. It is the same thing that happened when the 1st android phone came out. We had a limited number of decent applications to choose from but after a while the android market starting filling up. I imagine Maemo 5 will be the same way. Another thing missing from the n900 is wifi tethering to a laptop. It is in the works but at the moment there is no way to setup an adhoc network. Right now my t-mobile 3g is my only internet. So it is kind of big deal that it has no tethering via wifi. One other thing that was disappointing was the performance of flash video in the browser. Everything would load up very choppy, audio not in sync with the video and constant buffering. An upgrade to the new 10.1 version of flash should help out this issue though. There was no time frame given when the n900 will get 10.1 though.
If you want to know more about the phone just ask. I’m not trying to write a review of the device. For the time being I am back with my useful but aging G1.
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