Nokia N900 Owners Thread

ukbill69

Maemo 5 PR1.1 released today!!!

See what is updated here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.1#Battery_and_Charging

pull62

Took the plunge today and bought a month old N900 that I saw on Ebay. £400 including a 16gb micro sd card. So far it seems like an awesome machine, not the most intuitive device but the mutts nuts none the less!

ukbill69

pull62 wrote: »

Took the plunge today and bought a month old N900 that I saw on Ebay. £400 including a 16gb micro sd card. So far it seems like an awesome machine, not the most intuitive device but the mutts nuts none the less!

Apps are down at the min, wait a few days and be back online, ok there is only about 100, some really good ones, but tons are being developed in the background. But well done, you will love it.

Archangel

I went to T-Mobile, Orange, O2, Vodafone in that order to get a play with the N900, none had one. Went to CPW, next stop would've been 3, but CPW had one

Mine's on order

arm1970

I've just go my N900 and am still trying to get my head round how best to use it.
I managed to get one sent directly from Nokia to test for 4 months then it's all mine (should make my upgrade call interesting ) my lovely wife sent me an email and two weeks later it was here. It's not locked to any network so I'm missing out on Vodafone's free stuff each week and I'm also stuck with using the GPRS internet connection.

My question is how do you flash your phone (keep it clean) and will this improve my battery life?

Thanks in advance

DUVET_3

arm1970 wrote: »

I've just go my N900 and am still trying to get my head round how best to use it.
I managed to get one sent directly from Nokia to test for 4 months then it's all mine (should make my upgrade call interesting ) my lovely wife sent me an email and two weeks later it was here. It's not locked to any network so I'm missing out on Vodafone's free stuff each week and I'm also stuck with using the GPRS internet connection.

My question is how do you flash your phone (keep it clean) and will this improve my battery life?

Thanks in advance

How did you manage to get a free phone to test for 4 months and then keep it ?

i would love this phone but i need it to come to o2 !

ZootHornRollo

i have had my N900 for about 3 weeks now. Absolutely loving it.

I do have to admit that it is not the finished article and there is a bit of work to do by both Nokia and the community (it is Linux based) to improve the feature list. The community has been great so far and thanks to the many developers working on it, software is coming out daily.

The second firmware update was good, introduced a few features and fixed a lot of problems.

I am a bit disappointed about the Ovi Maps anoucement not including the N900 but i guess it wasn't an advertised feature so can't really complain.

So far - its the best mini computer with phone functionality i have ever had.

ukbill69

ZootHornRollo wrote: »

i have had my N900 for about 3 weeks now. Absolutely loving it.

I do have to admit that it is not the finished article and there is a bit of work to do by both Nokia and the community (it is Linux based) to improve the feature list. The community has been great so far and thanks to the many developers working on it, software is coming out daily.

The second firmware update was good, introduced a few features and fixed a lot of problems.

I am a bit disappointed about the Ovi Maps anoucement not including the N900 but i guess it wasn't an advertised feature so can't really complain.

So far - its the best mini computer with phone functionality i have ever had.

I agree, its a working development and thats the way nokia want it, best way as everyone can change every part of the phone. Same as linux pcs, every thing can be changed.

boliston

I might get the N900 soon when my Blackberry 8900 contract comes to an end.

The thing that annoys me about the blackberry is that it is trumped as an excellent email phone, but the email client is very annoying as if I read an email on my PC it still shows as "unread" on the Blackberry. My blackberry currently says I have 132 unread emails, but this is not true and I'm fed up with constantly having to manually hit "mark as read" and just don't bother any more.

I just want an email client that works normally!

DUVET_3

i've found a webiste that will allow you to upgrade to the nokia n900 if your an existing 02 pay monthly customer,

http://www.theorder.co.uk/o2/upgrades/deals/Nokia/N900/O2-Upgrade

avaiable on other networks too.