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1. T. Anh Nguyen says:

   January 1, 2010 at 11:08 pm

   -Camera quality simply sucks

   +Processor is really fast

   -Landscape screen is somehow inconvenient

   +The size of the phone is pretty small

   -The Apps…I don’t know, not so user-friendly as Symbian

   +The pen is just cute )

   -It’s hard to open the back or to take out the battery

   +Love the box =))
   Rating: 3 / 5
2. Fabrice DI MEGLIO says:

   January 2, 2010 at 2:06 am

   Nokia had a potential good opportunity with this device but overall screwed it up big time.

   The screen is very frustrating for previous iPhone users and I would say anybody that is used to a capacitive screen. The size said to be 3.5” is actually quite smaller than the iPhone one. Maybe inches in Finland are not the same as in US. The colors are also just so so. Last but not least the touch behavior is very erroneous: just try to swipe in a list of items (like emails for example) and you will see that you accidentally click without doing it. Soooo frustrating.

   The Login screen is just a bad joke compared to the n770 and n800 that I own already. Quite ugly and difficult to key in the code. Wooow such a strong regression compared to the previous models.

   Then Gmail integration is just screwed up: this device and OS version is NOT able to handle my inbox with something like 16K messages. That’s a bad joke indeed. The mail application is just freezing without any reason (jezz, I am on a Wifi connection with a BIG bandwidth).

   There are no apps or so little like a couple dozen. That’s a joke too. No twitter app, no facebook app just widgets that are plain useless.

   The browser could have been nice but the very small size of the screen makes the browsing experience a pain. I am missing big time here the screen estate from my n800. And its time for rendering complex pages is just so so.

   The keyboard is so cramped. I have medium size fingers and they do not fit correctly. Keying is such a pain indeed and of course there is no autocompletion into the text fields for helping you. Nice job Nokia.

   The GPS takes time to synchronize and the map is just not attractive and not very readable. Yes Nokia, you cannot compete with Google Maps and you should have done a partnership with them to provide the user a better experience.

   The phone by itself is just ok and not appealing. It forces you to change from landscape mode to portrait mode and accessing the phone is not really easy when you are dealing with other apps. Woow, even the phone features have been screwed up. Unbelievable.

   As a sum up, my 2 hours experience was very bad and I decided to return it without regret.

   Nokia has done a very bad job here and it is such a shame for them as I was sold to have such a device. They should better listen to users and more take care of user experience…
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. N. Shrestha says:

   January 2, 2010 at 4:08 am

   I have been waiting for Nokia n900 for a long time. Since this mobile has flash support, it will help to open the websites like last.fm and others which will allow us to listen to latest songs online. And the features are also better than iPhone and others since Nokia supports multitasking. I hope the horizontal mode for most of the applications will not be limited with the firmware upgrade in future.
   Rating: 4 / 5
4. Adrian van Wijk says:

   January 2, 2010 at 5:06 am

   the n900 lacks:
   
   1 description for tasks
   
   2 lacks category field ( map to Outlook)
   
   3 a search for notes tasks and calendar and other contact info.
   
   camera is great, LED flash leaves a lot to be desired.

   Rating: 4 / 5
5. Demoncrat says:

   January 2, 2010 at 7:53 am

   First of all, I am a long-time Nokia user. I started with the 3650, and then moved to the N90, which I liked a lot.

   I have to say, however, that Nokia did not do itself proud with the N900. I would give it zero (0) stars if I could. The battery does not last even a full working day. (The N90, in contrast, lasted a couple of days.) That was without exercising the phone hardly at all: a dozen phone calls, two pictures, no Internet access of any kind. That’s essentially just on standby. There is no Internet access over GPRS, which is puzzling. I had a T-Mobile plan for the N90, and I just moved the SIM card from that phone to N900, using the same plan. On the N90, T-zones appeared as a choice for Internet and I could use it; that choice doesn’t even appear on the N900. The user interface is not great; it seems to be a bit touchy (yes, that’s a pun). Sometimes tapping an icon several times has no effect whatsoever. The N900 doesn’t work with all features of OVI Suite and it doesn’t work with all features of PC Suite (image transfer). So I have to use both for different things. OVI Suite will sync the N900 calendar with the Outlook calendar on my PC, but it seems to be confused about dates and times — bad for calendar functionality. Yesterday it popped up an alarm for an event at the right hour, but the wrong day; today it just popped up an alarm for an event with an alarm set for 15 minutes in advance of the event, but the alarm went off an hour and 15 minutes in advance of the event. (Testers, where are you?) The Bluetooth functionality is abysmal. My car has a Bluetooth connection for the phone — essentially the audio system in the car is the Bluetooth headset. The Bluetooth functionality with the N90 worked perfectly from the get-go. The N900 loses its connection after hanging up, sometimes it won’t answer, sometimes it will appear to call but there is no audio, neither speaker nor microphone. For the camera, the geotagging functionality appears not to work, even when it is configured: After I take a picture, the screen shows a message indicating that it is geotagging the picture. When I examine the metadata in the photo in Photoshop, there is no geo information included. Perhaps I need to sign up for some additional service for that, but the manual isn’t clear on that. And on the manual, the Nokia folks certainly took to heart the minimalist mantra that’s circulating among documentation professionals — if the manual were any more minimal, it would be invisible. I am returning this phone. I’ll hope that Nokia releases a better model sometime in the future.
   Rating: 1 / 5