Comments on: N900 Outed in Proto Expose.

By: Jessica Magert

Jessica Magert — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:10:51 +0000

Cool device I must say, just don’t know about this love affair with resistive touch screens that Nokia has. Please stop!!

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:05:06 +0000

*drools*

By: Jonne

Jonne — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:27:13 +0000

Check out more at http://maemo.nokia.com/ seems to be recently updated.

By: dj.cicho

dj.cicho — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:48:23 +0000

Nokia could put Maemo5 on new Communicator device. E90 with little bit bigger screen and touch interface might be a proper bussiness tool.
I did like my E90 but I didn’t like Symbian on it.

What I have found latest is (stupid/clever?) tendency to bring to us best designed device. Why. for the last 10/15 years we had a lot of good, practical and usefull devices! Why not to put new hardware into old shapes?!

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:07:33 +0000

There’s a pretty big rumor that Nokia is working on a netbook (substantiated by TONS of sources). If it’s a 10″ convertible tablet netbook, running Maemo, would be amazingly wonderful. There IS a second Nokia device in the pipeline (mentioned in the maemo 5 SDK), but no one knows if it’s a MID, a phone, a netbook, or what.

By: Holy Moses no more tablets?

Holy Moses no more tablets? — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:46:44 +0000

This is a mixed bag – I hope they follow the rumored Apple 2-for-1 and release a parallel 5-inch tablet. Nokia’s abandoning their valued Internet tablet tradition to compete with the iPhone. I guess we have the new Umid to look forward to.

By: Kam

Kam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:12:26 +0000

I don’t care about Google apps compatibility. The only thing I use it for is the odd search so how the N900 integrates with google apps is not high on my agenda. I do however like the Maemo platform. I used the N800 for a while before getting a N810 but ultimately it wasn’t powerful enugh for my needs, as well as wanting to go for one single converged device.

Now that the N900 has phone radio built in is the answer to my prayers. The fact that the screen size has decreased because of it is not a deal breaker for me. I recently played around with the Toshiba TG01 WinMo phone with 4.1″ screen & although quite thin, in all other dimensions it was way too big to be a phone.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:31:50 +0000

It does seem a bit more interesting than a day ago.

But I’m really going to have to wait until I can play with one in person to see if I find the size acceptable. It’s just not going to replace my phone, so do I need two phones? (as opposed to MID and phone)

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:26:55 +0000

It’s essentially a Phone, so I would assume HSPDA is standard.

By: icura

icura — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:48:20 +0000

That sounds good. would 600 Euros include HSDPA? In that case, I can see myself owning one of these.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:26:09 +0000

I heard Sept2 on ITT forums.

There are 4 things I _wish_ it had (that I know it doesn’t):
1) 5 row qwerty keyboard
2) tilt screen
3) 4.1″ screen
4) the USB slot on one of the long sides, instead of the short side

There are 3 things I _hope_ it has:
1) Tethering … preferably via USB and Wifi, but also hopefully BT DUN and PAN
2) Decent compatibility with full Google Apps (the tiny screen worries me about using full Google Reader on it, or even Gmail)
3) TONS of battery life
4) threaded SMS messages

And I hope that eventually someone builds upon Ubuntu’s port of Dalvik … and ports it to Maemo.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:37:10 +0000

What would you say to 600 Euros and an October release?

By: icura

icura — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:58:30 +0000

Now this is more like it! All we need is a good price and a release date being soon.

By: Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Steve 'Chippy' Paine — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:07:09 +0000

New article: N900 Outed in Proto Expose. http://cli.gs/re1st