Comments on: N900 Photo Samples Appear

By: vorsicht

vorsicht — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:19:38 +0000

I used to love Nokia. I was following a Nokia-Tmobile smartphone for months. One month with a N97 and I no longer care about this phone or anything else from Nokia.
It looks pretty and has features except a complete lack of quality makes this wothless. Here are a few current N97 issues to chew on
- non standard usb plug turns off power. So media mode + charger will drain battery
- Lock function not consistant. Doesn’t block the camera but prevent answering.
- Lens cover scratches camera lens.
- Presure touch screen breaks with heat or presure 28 day repair.
- Customer support number (in phone) cant be dialed by phone and is incorrect.

Fortunatly Amazon has a great return policy. I recomend going too a nokia group before purchasing. Good luck out there!

By: Chuong

Chuong — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:30:13 +0000

No pre-order for me but I will definitely buy it once it’s available in the US.

By: Mau

Mau — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:28:37 +0000

Pre-Order for the N900 starts this friday. I spoke with a nokia rep and he said nokiaUSA will have the phone this friday. He didn’t know the price but I’m guessing $600-$700, save now and buy later!

By: Kershon

Kershon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:10:58 +0000

I have been waiting for the BB Driftwood but this device may have just changed my mind about that. As soon as this drops I am definitely going to a T-Mo store and check this out. This would make a great Christmas present to myself.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:41:23 +0000

@Bobomo I know this is about the N900, but there might be some other things. Nokia phones tend to always have good, if not great, cameras on them. However, if this (what appears to be) amazing device is not quite your style, then I highly recommend the Memoir. I still say “I took this with my phone” but I am always proud of saying that, and people are always surprised to hear that. If you want to take pictures with a phone, that is more than a phone, I’m sure both the N900 and Memoir could serve that purpose.

By: Bobomo

Bobomo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:17:01 +0000

@FILA – Don’t forget about the Pharos Traveler 137. Not an official T-Mo phone, but it has T-Mo 3G and some quasi-rebates.

@z – According to the screen shots at the Mobile Review site, yes. But they aren’t really going to advertise it on account of the physical keyboard.

@GoTz – The OS on the phone is Maemo, and it is a Linux OS. Check out maemo.org to see the kind of open source community that exists for the platform.

By: GoTz

GoTz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:25:27 +0000

Does the Nokia OS have a marketplace to download applications like Android? Or are there billions of applications floating around the internet? I’m not familiar with their OS.

By: Bobomo

Bobomo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:05:16 +0000

On the subject of the post, all I want is a camera good enough that I don’t have to add the caveat “I took it on a cell phone”. All these look good enough to have come from a 2-3 year-old point ‘n shoot and that’s good enough for me.

By: FILA

FILA — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:58:23 +0000

@Cosmo

Well its just like all the GSM phones out there now with US 3G in the phones. Before T-Mobile released there AWS 1700 and 2100mhz bands 3G bands, AT&T was pretty much the only carrier you could use any unlocked 3G capable phone. You cant buy a unlocked 3G phone and use it on T-Mobile if you want, so if we wanted the N97 or something, we be screwed out of T-Mobile. Now with this, even if it was a unlocked version just being sold on there site we could use. But see im not sure on what the accessibility is with cell phone manufacturers using T-Mobiles own AWS 3G band, maybe the companies need permission to use it, maybe the only way a phone maker can use the bands is if T-mobile says yes and there sign it. Could very well be, if not and they can build a phone with the bands but not get signed this is what we would be looking at. We dont know. Its hard to believe T-mobile would jump on this ship but its certainly looking like it.

Also there are phones out there, you wont see sold in US stored but certain sites you can get phones that have WiMax built in, but you wont see Sprint touch them, same concept, but for some reason this is the only device with T-Mobile’s 3G in it? looking like it, thats why it is pretty likely

By: Bobomo

Bobomo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:55:38 +0000

It’s possible they could release it unlocked, but a high-powered internet tablet without an “official” 3G network? I would hope Nokia is smarter than that. Pharos went that route with the Traveler 137 but you can still get a rebate (up to $250) for a T-Mo contract commitment, even though it is not technically a subsidized phone.

My only worry is that if they do get their hands on it, T-Mo will start stripping hardware to get it into a certain price range. In my estimation, this thing is better than the TP2 and they want $350 for that. There’s not a whole lot of room above that… especially when you are trying to sell yourselves as the low-price provider.