nokia n900 owners only please respond?

best answer would be appreciated but please if only you are a nokia n900 user

i am thinking about getting for myself a nokia 900 these days, the things thats are keeping me hesitated are:
1- after some time of real day to day treatment is the phone ok?, i mean with sliding phones there is nearly always some kind of stoppage any in the spring mechanism or sliding part becomes baggy etc
2- is there a way to keep the phone clean, a protective hard shell or something of that sort?
3- whats all the fuss with meego vs maemo, i googled the whole business and it appears that latest meego doesnt run smoothly and even it doesnt allow certain functions with the phone, whats the need for meego
4- is there a stand alone gps on it, not the helped one that needs 3g connection, i mean like nokia e72 “with my relative” he got the maps downloaded and any time gps is needed no need to connect to the netwrok at all
5- what about word, powerpoint, and excel on the n900, i didnt notice anything for that matter, and isnt there pdf reader installed by default?
6- whats the need for overclocking
7- can phone battery get me through the day with some browsing over wifi or 3g, an hour or so of record play back and of course some games?
8- it has been long time since the device hit the markets, is it a safe choice to buy it now, specially with all the gossips about a newer device?
9- do you regret buying it?
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i have the nokia n72 in front of me these days and its really ok considering speed and very comfortable keyboard, i know meamo differs than symbian but what i am saying here is i got alternative
nokia n97 mini was ok with me but with all the terrible reviews out there i stopped thinking about it, the new nokia c6 is a btter replacement for the n97 mini i guess

i despise i phone, it even makes me sick so please no one tell me i phone, same goes for blackberry

i need to set my mind on one of the above phones
nokia n900
nokia e72 ” if it is not a excellent choice to buy n900 these days”
by the way i am familiar with linux and i really like the whole thought behind the n900 but i need the help of n900 owners to make my final choice

Answer by ant d
1. The phone is an brilliant phone to use daily. When it was first launched battery life was iffy. After the upgrades the standby time is now on par with additional phones. Battery life is shortened if the GPS is always on or if you have the phone set to scan for Wifi every 2 or 3 minutes as different to every 10 or 20 mins. I have been using it every day for a year. The slide mechanism is very solid and well built. It does not feel like it will fail anytime soon.

2. The phone is very simple to keep clean. The screen but is a grease magnet. I have always used a screen protector with it. The screen is capacitive so the thickness of the screen protector must be taken into consideration. As of 3 months ago but I removed my screen protector and my phone is still in excellent shape because I bought an otter box case for my phone.

3.Maemo is the OS the phone came with. Meego is a new system that there are experimenting with. There is no customer support for Meego. If you install Meego on your n900 and something goes incorrect, forum support will be your only hope of getting the conundrum fixed. I have my phone set up to dual boot maemo and android 2.2.(Froyo). Android on the N900 does not yet support voice, meaning you can make calls but the additional party can’t hear you nor can you hear them. The camera also does not work. I am personally coming up for these problems to be fixed and then I will abandon Maemo because IMHO Nokia is about to do the same in 2 or 3 years if they get Meego up and running.

4. There is a standalone GPS but it does need a network connection. I have not tried it without a GPS connection. As far as I know it won’t work properly without one. If I am incorrect someone will assess me.

5. Word, Powerpoint, and excel works only with the 30 day trial of Documents To Go. I was a Treo owner for years where it was free with the phone. On the n900 it was free for 30 days then stopped working. I refused to buy a program that should have come for free with an unlocked phone. There is no built in pdf reader but there is a pdf reader app that can be downloaded from the Ovi store for free.

6. There is no need for overclocking but the phone will run nearer if it is overclocked. It runs hotter shortening the battery life and probably the life of the processor too. I ran my phone overclocked for a few months until a stable dual boot kernel for froyo was made. overclocking AND dual booting is not recommended. Public have done it but it may make the phone become unstable like tit was for the first few weeks that I had it.

7. About 30 mins of wifi use is okay. The hour of gaming I’m not too sure about. Some emulators for the phone are very buggy and will consume a lot of the phone’s resources because they are not optimized for the phone. The games that come with the phone you should have no conundrum gaming with. I never worried about charging because I would listen to an hour of music then watch record, game, and use the internet for another hour and a half then, charge the phone when I got to work. The battery would be about halfway done at that point.

8. The newer devices? Do you mean the n8, N9 or the X7? Don’t know much about the n8. The N9 is supposed to be symbain3/ meego based. The X7 is supposed to be symbian4 and meego based which has nothing to do with maemo unfortunately.

9. I don’t regret buying it. More support from Nokia would have been nice (they are horrible unfortunately ,the launch of the n900 was botched from day one ; they weren’t sure what the release date for the US was, how many units or which supplies it would be in etc).Like you I did not want an Iphone so my choices were unlocked N900 and an unlocked Android phone. The N900 has way more functionality that any additional phone I’ve ever had. For instance it has both an fm transmitter and receiver. It was one of the first phone to have 2 cameras, front and back facing. It was of the first phones to come with a screen resolution above 720. It is one of the few phones that can play downloaded videos with no conversion necessary. In small I like my N900.

Answer by lilmissshy
i bought mine on saturday after watching millions of reviews on it on youtube, but ive literaly gone from using a phone that only allows my to text, call and take por quality videos to this one, so its taking me time to get use to and frustratiing. i noticed aswell the touchscreen is starting to go abit pun, like when i first got it out it was so smooth and once u tap lightly on someting it changes but not its gone stif, sometimes it feels like am gona smash the screen when i tap. chose am going to sell it after christmas dnt reckon its a phone for a girl like me, but it is for public who know wat thier doing. x

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