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Bye Bye N900. I’m returning you.
Feb 7th
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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Google Phone…My next phone?
Dec 16th
It has been 12 months since my last phone purchase. For a year I’ve been using the HTC Dream aka G1. The phone’s been awesome to use and it has been fun to watch the evolution of android. The G1 is a special phone because it was not only the 1st android phone but it has a huge amount of people developing custom roms and themes for it. The phone has also been my only internet connection for many months. I’ve even started using it to connect my ps3 and play Call of Duty online. There is not much the phone can not do. The only downside I’ve seen to the phone is the camera. But that is a problem with many cell phones. Something I hope HTC and the rest of the phone makers work to improve. Parting with my G1 will be hard but I think it is time for a change.
Photo Credit: Boy Genius Report
Rumors have been going around for months about Google coming out with its own phone. Those rumors have turned out to be true. Over the past few days lots of information and even a few pictures have been leaking out about the Google Phone dubbed Nexus One. It really is a sexy looking phone. All the specs and pricing haven’t been released yet but many people are saying that it will be released on January 5th with the price tag of $199. Inside the phone is a speedy snapdragon processor. The camera on the nexus one should be a big improvement from my G1. It is supposed to be a 5mp camera. The only thing that could make this phone even bigger and better for me was if it came with Flash 10 on it. But I don’t see that happening since it is taking Adobe forever to release an updated version of Flash for smart phones. I will be getting this phone the day it is released unless of course the pricing is wrong. Hopefully Google and HTC release some official information about the phone soon.
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