Nokia's N900 gets previewed

Great phone. Will not sell well here in US without subsidies. I’d take it over gayPhone for 200$ from T-mobile when I have to renew my contract this January.

this device has a full Linux distro on it with a finger friendly interface. Its the not powerful device available bar none that isn’t a laptop or netbook. Its worth well over $200 on subsidy. The Touch Pro2 should be at least 25% higher. I think $300 on contract is a steal! This is a laptop replacement with a phonephone included! What else competes? Verizon has a netbook for $199, but I bet it has expensive software, low battery life, little pocketability, and no phone features. See my point? As long as it doesn’t have a service premium like the fruity phone, I’m cool if its $375!!

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A bit bulky and a bit heavy, but a so interessant OS and software environment.

I dream of Maemo 5 with the hardware on the same form factor that Samsung Jet or with a n900 without physical keyboard, amoled and capacitive display.

I was once anally raped by an iPhone!

@christexaport, you’re high. The TP2 has 2+ year old hardware guts. WTF with crap CPU and relatively underspec’d RAM/HD? Their UI enhancements aren’t all that great compared to the comp, and you can only do so much to juice up the resistive screen. Since I don’t need to sign docs on my smartphone, I’m among the vast majority of smartphone buyers who don’t care that I can sign docs on the dumb thing. If they are thinking physicians are their core audience (to write scripts from the handset) they need to seriously rethink their business plan. Charging 75% more than the Pre, the iPhone, and any Blackberry is not a good idea under any circumstances, let alone when you have Tmo’s crap footprint, nascent 3g network, and an ancient OS whose only real savior is complete Exchange compatibility. I have Tmo and their brand new 3G network in my town is not much to get excited about based on BGR’s Friday report. I hate giving up my cheaper monthly bill, but all things considered it is hard to figure out why to stick around.

WTF…do you work for Tmo? I got it, you are paid to try and skew community buzz in favor of your employer? I’ll let you in on something…they all suck.

A sumo tug-o-war crew couldn’t pull Nokia’s head out of their own @ss. Epic fail.

Say what you want, and I’ll give you that ATT blows donkey balls and Apple is an oppressive organization (Google Voice), but it’s hard to knock the iPhone’s game changing contributions to the space. If the carrier didn’t suck so much, they had a physical keyboard option, and [maybe] the workflow was a bit better suited for corp folks like me, I’d get one in a heartbeat.

bahhhhhhh bahhhhh the sound of isheep hating on an amazing phone. bbaahhhhh bahhhhh

@ gb,

I’m totally sober, but totally for legalized puff puff give, so I’ll let that one pass. Just let me hit it first. LOL! (do you really take yourself seriously?? Its just a comment on someone else’s blog, for crying out loud…)

On the cool, I meant the TP2 should be 25% cheaper, but pretty close in price, but its capabilities put it at the top of the device food chain, so I say $799 unlocked, $259-299 subsidized is still a steal. All the listed prices are near iPhone and Pre prices, around $600-800. When did the small amount become 75%. Is Bubba Tech passing out Bidness degrees along with those Maff degrees now?

What can you get for less? What are you willing to give up in features for cute transitions and pretty materials? That’s been the Nokia users quandry lately, but no longer when this thing lands from the space ship.

Don’t be a fool and let buzz words and specs be the only gauge of a device. If the touchscreen works well, who cares if its resistive or capacitive or selective for that matter? Why can’t you accept that Nokia has figured how to get capacitive response from a resistive screen? Eldar vouched for it, and he’s the most trusted guy in the business.

Another thing. Fact is, that carrier you mentioned DOES suck, the iPhone DOES lack a keypad, DOES have zero task management skills, so you’ll be wanting this puppy, which has all the things you seem to need. And no one will be blocking your apps for it, either. In fact, you could easily make your own. This thing runs Linux, and is as open as open gets.

Nokia has a long history of game changing contributions to mobile tech industry, far more than Apple, even in the recent moment. Don’t let the Kool-Aid cloud your memory. Apple hasn’t done anything new except collude with a carrier and blocked users from realizing the potential of their devices. I guess maybe they have changed the game. Where I’m from, we call that putting shit in the game…

by the way, I’m self employed, no longer use carriers at all, going full SIP and SIM free, and am proud guys like you that wouldn’t speak rudely of anyone in public has a forum to spew idiocy behind the protection of your old school CRT monitor. Leave the world to us real men, punk.

Of course, my joking friend wrote that, not me. But I agree. LOL

You have to be kidding. On every point you mention…though mostly the last. Bidness degrees? You’re the dumbass who misstated the numbers, %250 instead of $350-400? Even at that, you’re still high. Figuratively, since you’re so fucking literal. “Self employed”? What, selling cell phones out of a mall kiosk? Let’s compare w2′s, spending discipline, and worth (not counting your inheritance). Nokia? Seriously? WTF are you smoking? WTF is so different in the EU (yes I’ve been, can’t say I was looking at their keyboards though) that a qwerty keyboard is so bastardized to require a fair learning curve? Why bother when there are so many other choices? Symbian? Please. And $700 or whatever the n97 costs is further testiment to my argumement that Nokia not only sucks, but deserves to perish. As for WinMo, suck a fukcing dick already, how could you be so king to Mr. Gates? Not saying he hasn’t contributed immensely to IT and consumer electronics, but Winmo, Zune, etc, all suck fat dick. I swear the only reason I’m about to get one is for the full Exchange integration without spending a shitload of time monkeying around with hacker websites. If not for people like me who are prisoners to corporate infrastructure, what right-minded person buys a WinMo device? Seriously? That dwindling revenue stream reminds me of the Big Three who have spent the last (too many) years bragging about market position and blah blah when the only reason the had any market share was because of fleet sales. Similarly, take away unfortunate fools like me who are shackled to Exchange, and therefore WinMo, (until someone else figures out how to do it as well) and you’d have a rapidly dying product instead of the slow one we have now.

As for buzzwords, when you want to debate the merits of silicone manufacturing and related component choices by HTC in their underspec’d phones, let me know. WinMo is a resource hogging, memory leaking disaster that needs far more than HTC’s bean counters will throw at it. Put it on a modern handset (Pre, GS) and it may actually work better enough to make me not regret the purchase and count the days until somebody has full Exhange integration figured out. Must be rocket science?

Buy. A. Fucking. Clue.

alright already, excuse the countless typos/misspellings, it’s late and I’m hitting the sack. nice sparring.

@ gb,

Don’t get pompous, now. You failed to even see my point or your mistake. I said it should be priced within 25% of the TP, meaning the SUBSIDIZED price, since TMO will be offering both of them as high end smartphones. The TP2 will probably come to rest around $199-239 on contractafter the initial launch. I expect the much more capable, more original and exclusive design, and higher quality camera will give it a slight premium over the TP2 for positioning reasons, at around $249-279.

FYI, the Nseries brand is a premium nameplate that garners a higher price, and anyone that uses Nokia kit knows its combination of reliability, power, open and unlimited hardware access and APIs, and quality. You may find this to be a simple Linux tablet with a phone built in and say its worth $300-450 unsubsidized, but then how much is the iPhone? It’s $699, so an extra hunderd bucks sounds reasonable for something seen as an upgrade from the iPhone. Call me high, but when the numbers come out, call them high too, because they fit in line with conventional marketing wisdom.

On matters of W2s and finances, don’t be such a snob. I make a meager living today, but have also made six figure salaries as a seismic technology specialist for a large geophysical corporation and managing and developing music acts in my region. I no longer do either, but I was proudest of the the fruits my work bore, the found gas and oil deposits, the artist getting a national touring opportunity, but NOT the money I made. I’m a man that takes pride in my contribution to society, not my personal wealth. Even now, I’m perfectly happy in my position in life, regardless what level I spend and accummulate money.

I probably made more peddling drugs as a teenager than most people on this forum, but was never proud of any of it. What makes you special if you buy the expensive chicken at Whole Foods while I buy the cheap bird at WalMart? They both taste great on my grill, believe me, so get over yourself. I make the living I want, and when I want more, I’ll work for it too. If you lose it all, how would you make it to the next day? I’m a Black brother from the South, and we are survivors and creators, and most of us don’t get family inheritances. We create our own successes, as I have. I know quite a few millionaires that sell phones out of kiosks right in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I guess you feel some station above them because you work in some field you enjoy more. Not everyone dreams to be you.

I never said the EU or anyone else required any learning curve. I don’t even LIKE QWERTY, preferring T9. And you should give Mfe for Symbian a look if you need exchange support. I never wanted to talk “buzz words” with you, and didn’t even want to speak to you in the first place, so take your nanometer processes and Systems On a Chip and scram. I’m out.

(seriously, who asked that bitch about WinMo and HTC in a Nokia/Maemo thread? And all he had was “dick” in his mouth half the conversation… High school was over almost 2 decades ago for me. Get a vocabulary, smart dummy.)

I like the N900. I currently have the Iphone3gs and believe it or not having fun with it. Right now it really suits me and the apps I do have I use quite regularly. I wasn’t impressed by the N97 and hoped that Nokia would come out with a different OS. Maemo5 rocks! Even if its a superior smartphone than the Iphone, it still won’t touch the success of Apple. Most people still like the simplicity, sleekness, easy to get apps and fun of the Iphone. But I’m more on the techie side and want a phone that can emulate a PC desktop and the N900 comes really close. I travel to Asia quite a bit and also need the convenience of popping a sim card in and have no worries. Can I use this on AT&T’s network here easily and have full functionality? I think I will wait until I hear what Apple has in plan for the next year’s Iphone first, multi-tasking, flash(browser) and flash on camera perhaps. We’ll see….if not, then its back to Nokia with the N900. I still have an unlocked N95 8gb that I could take internationally if I have to.

i’ve actually seen and used this phone and its awesome is like a mini computer is one of the best phones i’ve ever seen ,tho im not a big fan of the key board