Remember I told you about the Nokia N900 Review competition at ringaz.nokia.co.za … Well guess who won the phone!!!
Yes I am now the lucky owner of a Nokia N900, it’s an awesome phone and since I am upgrading in, October I can get a cheaper contract and put that data-gobbling phone on a good Data bundle. I had to send back the phone on Tuesday so I will hopefully get back the phone on Monday.
Then the not so great news, ok it’s bad news. Mr.Big broke up with me.
I sort of knew it was coming. The last few weeks he has been really cold. He never wanted to kiss me or hold me any more. He didn’t even send me cyber kisses like he used to. He became impatient with me and cranky when I was around. I didn’t need to use my 3 years with psychology as a Major to figure it out. He emailed me today saying that although he does not want to do it over an email, he would not be strong enough to face me when breaking up. He said that he has work and personal issues he needs to work out and that he is not ready for a relationship at this stage. We are going to see if we can stay friends. 3monthes and 5days, my net relationship record.
So boys, I’m Single and looking, let me know if you want a serious relationship…
This also means that point 2 and 3 of my bucket list is still not crossed out.
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.
Ok forgive me, but this post will be short and full of spelling errors.
In the last post I told you about the N900 review competition by Nokia Ringaz, well I got the phone and is actually posting this post using the phone. I will post the review on this blog with a link to the post on the ringaz blog so you can go vote for me.
Btw. I just started watching Pretty little liars… Loving it!!!
I know I haven’t blogged in a while so I will try to keep it short, but still put everything in to this post.
I’ve been seeing MrBig now for just over 2 months. The only thing that is bugging me is that he does not
want to see me as his BF (thus also not allowing me to call him my BF). The problem is the way the two of us sees relationships. To me, a person who you are seeing monogamously and on a very regular basis is your BF. To him, we are only BF’s the day we are ready to get married and have already moved in together. He also said that does not want it to become to serious to quickly and I understand that. I think he might have been scared I want to move in with him next year after my studies, but I also first want to fins my feet. I do see this relationship developing into a long term relationship. It has already lasted longer that any of my previous ones. But so far it is going quite well.
The past weekend Mr.Big took the weekend to get away from everyone and everything. That gave me a chance to also get some rest after a very, very, very hectic week and also to catch up with Mr.P, who has been working in JHB for the last 6 months or so and I really miss him. He came to Stellies on Friday and called me up to come with them to Opskop (a local langarm place). It was really nice seeing him and chatting to him. In a bit of a drunken state he gave me a hug (in public) and told me that I am one of his best friends. For a person, who was scared to death of me when I came out to him, to say that to me, really meant a lot!!!
One a totally different note… I love competitions… ok only those that doesn’t cost me anything. One of the more recent ones I entered was with Nokia, more specifically Nokia Ringaz. I had to write a motivation as to why they should pick me to send a Nokia N900 to for 2 weeks and review it. After the review is posted people have to vote for the best one. And the one who wrote the best review wins the phone. So I am one of 3 that has been chosen to review the phone. And I am getting the phone tomorrow. I am so excited!! I love that Phone, it was right at the top of my list for my next Upgrade in October! So I will keep you posted on the progress of my N900 exploration. I have been doing so much research about the phone, even before the competition!
I sort of knew it was coming. The last few weeks he has been really cold. He never wanted to kiss me or hold me any more. He didn’t even send me cyber kisses like he used to. He became impatient with me and cranky when I was around. I didn’t need to use my 3 years with psychology as a Major to figure it out. He emailed me today saying that although he does not want to do it over an email, he would not be strong enough to face me when breaking up. He said that he has work and personal issues he needs to work out and that he is not ready for a relationship at this stage. We are going to see if we can stay friends. 3monthes and 5days, my net relationship record.
