Those Nokia N900 Reviews
- August 27th, 2010
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OK Here is the Review that has been posted at http://ringaz.nokia.co.za/opinions/nokia-n900-reviews-competition/
Please read through it and go vote!!! I really want the phone!
BTW I will do a full Review of the phone (in more than 600 words) if I win the phone!!!
First of I would like to thank Nokia SA (Ringaz) for the oppertunity to review the phone.
The Nokia N900 is so much more than just another smart phone. It is a tablet computer in your pocket.
Look and feel:
The beautiful black phone has a resistive touch screen which I found to work better than most other resistive touch screens. It has a slide out 3 row QWERTY keyboard, but it also has the option to use the on-screen keyboard. This does however make the phone a bit bulky. It is a few grams heavier than the HTC Touch Pro2 that also has a QWERTY keyboard that slides out.
The 4 screen panoramic desktop is awesome! It can be completely personalised with your favourite wallpapers, contacts, shortcuts and widgets. The Multi-tasking capability of the phone makes it great for those, like me, who like to do more than one thing at a time.
8/10
Communication:
The integration with skype and other IM service makes it easy to keep in touch with everyone and it has a wonderful conversation manager that keeps track of your conversations by sorting them by contact and then by date. It works fantastic. The downside, there is no built in MMS tool. You have to download and configure a program called fMMS. Contact your service provider for the settings.
The email function is great. With the push service for exchange you can stay up to date with everything, but if you have a large mailbox like gmail, I would suggest using POP3 instead of IMAP since it can get really slow.
8/10
Networking:
The Phone has HSDPA capability up to 10Mbits (that is fast) as well as wifi (802.11 b/g), meaning you can stay connected where ever you are! The browser has Mozilla technology, therefore you experience the “browsing from PC feeling” and it has a great zoom feacher. You tube video’s play perfectly with the Adobe Flashplayer integration.
The phone, in good Linux style, connects to a repository of games, programs and tools that can be installed at a touch of your thumb. Extra repositories can also be added to expand your playground. There is something for everyone, even a recipe program for your mom.
9/10
My Overall feeling:
The Phone is fantastic. My biggest issue however is the battery life. I could not get it to last me longer than 8hours. There are tools though to help out, like the Wifi switcher which you can use to switch off the Wifi. The 36Gb means that you don’t even need to use a microSD card, but if one need to expand you can use up to a 16Gb card. The sound is awesome and the 3.6mm Jack makes is easy to plug in my favourite earphones if I don’t want to use Nokia’s. The camera is great, though I would have wanted a xenon flash.
The initial setup took a lot of data (something Nokia should attend to). Be sure to have a good data plan or use a Wifi network to do this. This might be where BlackBerry has an upper hand with there BlackBerry service packages.
For the Linux experts and geeks out there: Maemo is Debian based, making it putty in your hands to play with. Should one hit a bump the kernel can be flushed and everything should be back to normal again. There is a massive community on the net available to help out when needed.
I’ll give this phone a….
8,5/10
