Friday, January 15, 2010

Maemo is on the right tracks ... Friday afternoon!

When we started Maemo 5 we said: let's make the world's best pocketable computer, that is also a good phone! That is exactly what we've managed to do. And this is my vision of the future, too.

My impression is that if you read reviews and blogs, all of those that start with "Internet", "Computer", "Multimedia", "Networking" or any other such terms love N900. They think it's the best device out there. Those, who think it primarily just as a phone have more concerns.

Just as we planned! The best browser ever, the best conversation view, the best social network integration, very good camera & imaging capabilities, good multimedia support --- and a crips and well working mobile phone. And -- as a true computer- open and upgradeable by end users:

  • Two firmware updates within a week. Over the air. Some glitches, mostly going well!
  • Application store with good stuff in it
  • MMS implementation coming in as an open source project (Frals, cool!!!).
  • In addition to basic applications, a lot of other very integrated features, such as the Firefox browser, MSN and other IM plugins, codecs etc available as downloadables. Demonstrates the power of a true open Linux computer!
  • + many so interesting apps ... hundreds already ....
Not bad, eh?

It's Friday afternoon and I'm still in a phone conference, as you can see in the picture below. I'm in a phone conf (on mute, of course) and on my Facebook at the same time -- and a card game going on ..... this late in Friday, I felt that I needed to post and brag a bit about it ;-)


53 Comments:

Blogger jacobian said...

wow nokia N900 is just really great.I hope it will be available in indonesia then.so I can buy it :-)

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1/15/2010 8:50 AM  
Blogger CITIZEN OF THE WORLD said...

The N900 is truly amazing. Love your screenshot :-) Keep up the good work guys. Enjoy reading your thoughts on this blog.

Oh... by the way, I almost forgot... I'm typing this on my N900.

1/15/2010 9:18 AM  
Blogger w00t said...

Good to see that you're getting some work done. ;-)

I'm just pulling your chain. Congrats, and some well earned rest to you guys at Maemo. You've done some great work with 1.1 - here's hoping more follows (soon!) with 1.2.

I do hope that development processes mature in the future to come so updates can flow more frequently, and that the community (speaking primarily of developers) can be energised to help carry some of the load.

1/15/2010 9:18 AM  
Anonymous Marcin 'hrw' Juszkiewicz said...

Ari: You are saying that N900 is good phone and that it has awesome software. But look at Maemo bugtracker to see how many bugs people already found in Maemo5 applications.

Calendar is disaster, phone calls are tricky to answer due to rotating screen, Email started to be usable in 51.1 firmware update (earlier my folders with thousands of emails made that app go nuts).

There are also good things sure, but amount of bugs scares me.

1/15/2010 9:31 AM  
Blogger Andrea Giammarchi said...

Actually Maemo project, which I did not even know before I arrived in Nokia 5 days ago, truly impressed me!

The interface is amazing, smooth, fast, excellent look and feel, and the amount of apps I have seen were all interesting and without so many problems as Marcing is suggesting (but of course every software has some bug, my ex UK Android was not perfect neither Marcing, trust me, that's why two Maemo firmwares updates in a week should suggest you "something" ...)

I'd love to put my hands over one Maemo but I wonder if in your team you guys are planning to better squeeze that excellent browser and its JS/CSS engines to integrate W3C mobile widgets and some app development - that would be even more future proof, but I am just talking as a JS Ninja, don't listen to me ;)

1/15/2010 11:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you Ari for your continuous efforts. Maemo is definitely the future for Nokia and mobile phones. I for one would not switch away from my N900 for any other phone.

The only gripe I have really had is how little actual market research you did. Getting to know what your potential customers might want is key to success.

You dropped the ball on connectivity. I am sorry but I am forced to say that. N900 for instance is perfect for instant messaging on the go, yet you did not figure out that MSN Messenger support would be critically important for success?! It has the largest market share in Europe and USA and still one has to install extra applications to get such basic functionality?!

An other gripe is that you did not figure out that people might actually want to synchronize their mails or get proper push-mail support on the device. Exchange is not the only thing that people would wish to use. Probably great Gmail support would have been a killer feature for non-corporate users. Also you mislooked the Lotus Notes (Traveller) support which is an other blunder. The sad thing is that all mentioned implement ActiveSync which is a task for Mail For Exchange. You just didn't make sure that MfE can work with others besides Exchange 2003/2007 which is a colossial mistake :(

Anyways, other than those issues I have found the Maemo platform provided by my N900 excellent. I have not had any crashes so far and I think I have used most of the features on the device. Everything feels smooth, looks great, and seems stable. This is something you could never have with any Symbian stuff so keep up the good work!

1/15/2010 11:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Best smartphone I ever had ... and no "strange restrictions" by manufacturer to expand and develop ... Keep up the ggod work !!!

Rgds

Matthias

1/15/2010 12:23 PM  
Blogger Andy said...

need more apps though folks. doing a simple currency conversion is time consuming.

1/15/2010 1:00 PM  
Blogger Craig Carroll said...

After suffering 8 reboots a day. Disabling power management to reduce this to 3 after 4 weeks I nearly ditched the n900. It was in my opinion too unstable for use.

Now after 2 firmwares in 1 week, pr1.1 has restored my faith in that since the update my uptime is now 1 day 3 hours 5 minutes and no reboots. Whilst I accept there is still a away to go for more apps the firmware update now provides a rock solid base to achieve this goal and is a winner to both the maemo community and people working within it.

Needless to say the phone is not being sold yet.

1/15/2010 3:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

9:59 Anonymous: MSN is Microsoft's own protocol and Nokia is also a commercial company - thay just can't go and implement what ever protocols the want. Both Google and Microsoft have also their own smartphone operating systems. See the point here?

PS. Google Talk is based on open source XMPP protocol.

1/16/2010 1:06 AM  
Anonymous Viipottaja said...

Yes, it is great. But, don't get complacent. I have to agree that to balance the many wonderful WOW moments I also had a WOW moment on "man, I did not expect there to be this many bugs and also missing features". No, not talking about MMS. :) Say, for example, ability to form groups in the phone apps to send messages to. I know you went for "crisp" but you do have certain expectations for a Nokia phone, Maemo or not.

just to be clear: I love the N900! :)

1/16/2010 4:43 AM  
Anonymous Kitkat said...

I always agree that N900 is the best portable device. However, N900 is not a phone. As a phone it's still lack of many features. But as a mini computer that has telephony function, it'll pawn every single device out there. Just hope that one day (which i hope it will be very very soon), maemo 5 apps will be as many as android OS. Apps still rules in mobile phone industry.

1/16/2010 5:44 AM  
Blogger Kaz said...

So far the N900 is a P of S....

None of the important applications work well (listed below)

*Ovi Maps
*Mail For Exchange - is bigtime bad. Wish Roadsync could be installed.
*No Office document editing
*Phone (not even *#xxx# commands work)
*No MMS (i dont care)
*No PPTP/L2TP VPN and other VPNs ONLY via 3rd party apps.
*minimalistic Ovi Store
*Bad Bluetooth integration that most often do not work - even with Nokias own headsets.
*Battery life about 1/2 a work day
*Clunky touch interface with no logic at all - and resistive touch that more often than not guesses wrong about you want to scroll or click a link.
*So many bugs in all the software that it is incredible it came through quality control at Nokia.

so in short - a phone with potential - but a far cry from a perfect or even close to perfect device. As for the "computer" part - it is just as much a computer as E90 or N97. (They was advertised as Mobile Computers as well)

But it is a BETA device with BETA software - that should NEVER have been let out to the public in the state it is in.

1/16/2010 8:19 AM  
Blogger Abubakar said...

Just wanted to say congrats on successfully achieving the vision! n900 is only something i could dream of (been dreaming for a long time for a cell phone like this hehe, in the past 4 years nothing before n900 convinced me to change my cell phone). The hardware is awesome no doubt, but its the software thats truly limitless. Always keep Maemo OPEN!

1/16/2010 9:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just wanted to say that I LOVE the N900 already, although I haven't gotten around to getting one yet..but I am going to change that Shortly!

"Servicepack one" really made me fall for it, with lots of fixes, some even addressing some of the most pressing demands from users..
This makes me confident that Nokia will address some of the other issues that people are ranting and raving about (me included)
Read: What I really would love to see in "SP2" is portrait-mode...


By the way, Kaz.........:

I was just wondering..do you actually own an N900?

What I'm getting at is..your language gives me the feeling you have had an N900 for about a year now and finally, in this thread, found a way to "Tell them BAST**S at Nokia what you think of them!!!"

I am really hoping you own one and know what you are typing about..
If not, I am REALLY impressed by your commitment to slandering.....

1/16/2010 11:46 AM  
Blogger Paul said...

its a great phone no doubt..but ill say that motorolas motoblur is leaps and bounds ahead in social network integration..

1/16/2010 12:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome. Guess Maemo 6 is on the same good track? What does your daughter say about your Maemo 6 device?

1/16/2010 1:29 PM  
Blogger andre klapper said...

Answering former comments:
With regard to battery life and reboots, there are bug reports in bugs.maemo.org.
With regard to MSN support, this is already available from the maemo.org Extras repository, enabled by default in the Application Manager.

1/16/2010 1:54 PM  
Blogger Habeeb said...

I loved the updates, my email is so much more quicker and ovi maps is usable.

Keep up the good work

1/16/2010 5:04 PM  
Blogger Oleg Pridiuk said...

So far I more than agree abut beta status of current device (see list of issues from Kaz). Moreover I hate thinking that I should pay 500 Euro for a device that in 6 months will became obsolete (I mean mostly incompatible with new Maemo OS). Please correct me if I am mistaken.

1/17/2010 1:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bad english, sorry:

We all think N900 is grat, no doubt about it (we buy it! and it's not cheap!).
Bugs must be fixed, the work just started...

...but:

I can't listen to Nokia saying "it's not a phone, is a pocket computer"

Sorry, but it's a phone, and can be (and MUST be) the best mobile phone, not only the best "pocket computer"

Vodafone-Orange-etc "selling" to consumers a phone, sorry again,without MMS support? (do you think real people will thrust fMMS playing with 0.9€ per MMS? A "homebrew" app billing my operator? really?)

Maemo community is doing a great job, but, Nokia, YOU must do the same, GIVE US THE BEST PHONE, and kick Apple's ass! we want, you want, and can be done... so WHY NOT?

Only a real user beg.

1/17/2010 2:10 AM  
Blogger Kaz said...

>By the way, Kaz.........:

>I was just wondering..do you >actually own an N900?

>I am really hoping you own one and >know what you are typing about..
>If not, I am REALLY impressed by >your commitment to slandering.....

Sorry but first of all I do not hide behind "anonymous" - I stand by my critique. You hide on the other way? Do you own one?

I had mine for about 8 weeks now - and the PR1.1 "update" was kind of the tick-over point. Only bug fixed - no real needed functions added.

I guess the N900 is going to suffer the same issues as N97 did (which I did own as well) - Not before PR2.01 will it become the device it IS advertised to be.

So far it is a Linux geek phone - and the Linux geeks are happy with it as is. But then Nokia should not fill every airport in Europe with gigantic banners. That is not how you capture Linux Geeks but how you capture consumers. Since it is NOT yet a consumer device - they should just stop the advertising - and just advertise it on Linux forums etc - until the day where it gets its consumer features complete.

But Nokia is clearly following the N97 strategy. Release a "beta" product and let first movers loose out for the first 12 months. Then upgrade the software to version 2 with the features and stability that should have been in V1 - only to see that your phone is now on the backburner of technical ability .

Lets see if we do not get a N900 Mini an the same time.

But Nokia is burning bridges... and eventually people will not buy their latest and greatest just to take part in a big beta test.

1/17/2010 3:36 AM  
Anonymous Jeff Moe said...

Thanks for the pronouncement.

But you do realize your servers have been down all weekend, right?

*mind boggles*

1/17/2010 7:29 AM  
Blogger Ari Jaaksi said...

Yes, there is an issue. Sorry. See: http://maemo.org/news/announcements/repositories_down/

1/17/2010 11:21 AM  
Blogger gemi said...

Ari, I have an N900 for several days now. I quite like and it's full of potential, but as yet barely realized.

First if all, forget about the "it's a portable computer first, and a mobile phone in the second place only." It is first and formost a phone, and, what's more, a smartphone. So it should have all or most of the features that one expects from such a phone:

1. Integrated MMS (not a disconnected 3rd part effort).
2. All needed phone features, at least those of comparable phones, such as improvements to the PIM applications.
3. Video calls.
4. Some Java (ME) integration.

Furthermore, there are currently some issues, that must be fixed:

1. Unsufficient video recording quality, and a few more recording features, for example image size.
2. Bad font rendering in browser, especially kerning problems when zoomed.

I have high hopes for this devices. Please consider that people don't want to carry around a N900 and another smartphone, they want everything provided in their one and only mobile computer!

1/17/2010 1:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maemo is just the thing i have always wanted. There's still much polishing to do and i'm expecting Maemo 6/Harmattan to give that, but already happy camper.

If this gets as popular as Symbian i can see with the open source community(and sensible C++ libaries ;)) this to blow out of hands. Someday hopefully...

1/17/2010 1:39 PM  
Anonymous Ffejery said...

To those of you complaining about lack of MMS, built-in MSN, and similar, I understand your frustration (although I don't personally use MMS), but I think you're kind of missing the point. Should Nokia ideally have done then themselves and bundled them? Yes. But the beauty of the OS is that the fact that they didn't doesn't stop those things from being done. MSN support works beautifully, and is integrated seamlessly into the OS (no third-party application UI). I can't speak for the current reliability of the MMS app, but it can be improved (and audited, for that matter) by the whole community. Even if it stinks (*if*), it won't for long, given how many people want MMS. Heck - Nokia could (potentially) even build on that code if they wanted to bundle it in later updates. *That* is cool, and that's one of the reasons I like Nokia and Maemo. Nobody makes a perfect phone, but Nokia has given people the tools to *make* it their perfect phone.

1/17/2010 3:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In 1987 all my peers were using OS/2 and making fun of me for wasting time with MS Windows... called me "Windows Boy". I remember the same complaints, that MS didn't include important apps. I, for one, see the future, just like I did in 87. I've got a viable computer with a viable operating system that I can develop on. Oh, and it works for what I want and yet I can develop my own s/w. Heck, I freaked when I discovered a perl engine! Y'all can go play with yer little phone toys. As for me, I've got work to do and I can do it with a workhorse (not a show-pony... a work horse.)

1/17/2010 6:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've had the N900 for 5 weeks now, ironically my first crash came after the update. N900 has been just the phone I hoped for, Ovi maps is working for the first time since I got my first Nokia, battery life is 2 days even with wlan and 3g on and polling 3 email accounts.

The complaints I have
- no MMS
- no portrait
- bad flash performance

1/18/2010 2:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love my N900, I am certainly keeping it, using it every day and beginning to program for it, but...

There is no way I would say it has the best conversations view or the best social networking integration. Those parts are quite immature at this time, but they are usable.

For example, can I set my IM online status differently for work contacts than friends? No. Can I quickly look at the last few months conversation logs? Not really, scrolling is a slow way to do it. Can I search IM logs? No. Can I use IM network's native smileys or custom smileys? No.

It's a great device, with some great ideas, but let's not get carried away about how good it is at the moment.

Saying "it's mainly a computer not a phone" is silly. The issues are with calendar, contacts organisation and maps, but those are thing you do on a regular computer too!

Ironically, for making actual phone calls, it it excellent at that in every conceivable way! So don't get blinded by the "not so much a phone" thing; that's a thinking trap.

It's great but there's a lot still to do to fulfill that vision...

1/18/2010 4:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi to everybody !

Just a short comment. I agree to many of the posts here.
N900 and Maemo are very cool and have big potential BUT...we need to resolve some small bugs and fill the gaps and improve the funcitionality of some parts of the default applications on the device.

- We need better PIM funcionality (Calendar and Modest email client still lack many usefull functions used in home and business use),
- Java support (so you can use many already developed JAVA apps)
- Portrait mode improvements in UI
- SMS with T9 (Nokia has invented it! implement in N900 portait mode: it is sometime the best way to write an SMS!)
- some great RELIABLE commercial apps that extend the standard feature (like Pocket informant with GTD functionality etc etc)

Please release also the most important fix with small patch and not only bit firmware upgrade (I woul have seen MFE 2003 fix one month ago!)

Hope we'll see all of this soon on N900...Keep working on it (and keep also the possibility to upgrade to Maemo 6)
Greet from Italy,
SkyEagle

1/18/2010 11:13 AM  
Blogger Senh said...

The only thing missing?? A killer Map Navigation program like Google Map Nav.

1/18/2010 1:04 PM  
Blogger Dre said...

just touching on some of the posts here. mnd u i am not a dev or even very techy i the company as some authors of these poss. but i love phones i love to learn and i google almost everything for quick education on stuff so bare with me on some terminology or false assumptions.

push email using nokia email works great. i have it set for my yahoo google and aol accounts(hotmail not working right but that could be operator error on my part, (i think msn only offers pop access so i am not too sure about that.)

You can turn that phone orientation crap off to make it less hassle to answe calls.

This command worked on my phone even before the update to produce ime number *#xxx#.

Bug tracker is awesome and those great developers out there are getting things done done quickly. they deserve mad kudos for what they do. the simple fact that they are even able to do stuff like add mms with out waiting for nokia to deem it significant (what other os comes with this?) is a testiment to the plateform and the entire maemo community.

You show me one device out there without bugs (if not more than the n900) and i will show u a post built on lies.

The calender works great for me (however i don't need it synced to google or outlook or anything) and i havent had any issues. the same goes for the email and this was even before the latest update. i don't even know what a lotus note is but i can view word doc pdf doc ect with no prob and gmail works just as awesome as the other im and email protocols. only thing is no support for sending files via instantmessage protocol but i am sure its on the way.

For the most part i agree with Viipottaja there are somethings u expect from a nokia phone like creating groups n the contacts app (and this is the only time i would take the "mini computer beforea phone" stance) but i would rather have a pc like device with teleophony any day over a conventional smart phone so long as it had a community like maemo.org that i know from personal experience is working tirelessly out of what appears to be mostly love for the technology to bring those lil extra telephony features to the table. besides y buy a normal smartphone that is still trying to do the things this mini computer does when u could have the real thing?

ovi maps does suck donky size ones. and mms is already in the works i have seen the progress on this with my own eyes a test version is available right now for the device. its not perfect yet but works none the less.

vpn is available by 3rd party ... but who cares if its a free 3rd party app or a integrated app made via NOKIA? isnt 3rd part better so u can remove it if u dont need it or want it taking up memory? (although with 32 gb internal who cares)

look at the cliq for example. moto blur is nice but those same wigits and functions are available for every other android device via 3rd party so who cares that its integrated? all that means is u have to wait for the android folks to deem it neccesary to fix bugs or improve on it wnhere as a 3rd party facebook wigit (which the n900 has already) can simply be updated by that app creator. u can wait around for moto all u want to do it but the makers of let's say slick for for instance for sybian will be faster at getting certain things done for nokia devices than nokia themselves. they have a smaller scope and demand and list of concerns then the major manufactures.

1/18/2010 9:28 PM  
Blogger Dre said...

bluetooth has all worked fine for me accross all protocols except dun. but ftp a2dp and what ever else u can think of has been problem free.

the ovi store isnt packed with stuff yet but is coming along rather quickly. besides who needs ovi or a apple app store or sprint store when u have a truck load of devs n the maemo community doing it right now as we speak and offering the same quality of apps?

the interface is one of the most intuitive i have seen/used. better to me than the palm pre and iphone in my experience. but like any new or unfamiliure os u gotta take time to learn it and get used to it. a smart phone will have a learning curve and if it doesnt then how smart is it really?

the batt life is great after the update but was still good before hand. but def better now. u gotta know how to use a phone though. if ur constantly getting pinged from face book and have ur backlight on full and vibrating everything and u are suprised the bells and whistles going off constantly kill ur phone then YES! u do have a smart phone with a bad bat. but just cause the phone is smart it doesnt mean the user is too.

this phone is the closest of any phone out there to a stand alone camcorder. look @ the specs the fram rate for playback along with supported codecs and everything else that makes watching and capturing video awesome. on the flip side u cant be made @ nokia for outdated tech n the usa. video calling will be available w/o 3rd party aps via service provider as soon as they greedy minds figure out the best way to screw u out of the most money they can for it! the surge in unlocked devices doesnt help either. the service provider is and always has tried to make u pay for stuff the phone already does for free inherently.

also it sucks about the servers being down but i been using espejo mirror to gain access to all the apps that i lost with the new fw update and it works fine kudos to who ever made that!!!

@ the end of the day this phone is awesome and i apologize whole heartedly if i offend anyone. thx for reading my feelings on the matter. ". Nobody makes a perfect phone, but Nokia has given people the tools to *make* it their perfect phone." Ffejery said that. took the words out my mouth

1/18/2010 9:30 PM  
Blogger Muhammad said...

When I heard the N900 is coming out I was one of the first ones to stand in that line and get my hands on it. I have been a loyal Nokia customer for over 10 years and my latest phone/companion was the N95. I loved it with every feature that made sense. Simple and down to the point. When I got my hands on the N900 I felt that it was not ready for the market. It was rebooting all the time and ICONS too small small to tap correctly or even see sometimes. I really love the idea of open source and I wanted to be a part of it at any level. I think this phone has the ultimate potential for a revolution and I think it will be. One thing I would ask of you and your team Ari is to keep the KISS method. People have to love the device and wear it just like they wear their clothes or their gloves. It has to fit or it wont look good. Everything in the N95 just made sense, from the key strokes to the menus, to the applications, to the power and versatility and we should not expect any less from the N900. People use the device about 30% of their time on the phone, 20% on the web, 30% chatting and texting and about 10% for office and other boring stuff and about 10% for music and movies so please keep that in mind. Here are my thoughts and top 10 features that I think would make this device an even better one for me and many of us out there; (Continued on the next blog/msg for size limitation)

1/19/2010 6:11 AM  
Blogger Muhammad said...

Continued from last log/msg for size limitation;

1. first and foremost this device GOTTA! work in Portrait, it should not take two hands to operate this device unless you are sitting at a desk or in a chair. The fact that it is a mobile device it needs to be just that. People use it in their cars and one hand usage is a necessity not a luxury.



2. Voice recognition for blue-tooth dialing and managing calls. The device must also announce the persons name. I cannot tell you how that feature changed the way we manage communications as users.



3. Bigger Grouped ICONS just like you did with the application manager. I find my self going in and pressing the same thing two or three times to get to the app I want. The applications should be filed in the right place not just tagged at the bottom. Remember this also goes back to the portrait thing.



4. As soon as the device Opens (with the slider in portait mode not only in landscapte) there should be an overlay that comes up from the of the phone and slides upward which has three simple tabs. One that says phone the other says apps, and one that says multimedia. Very simple and powerful and oh! did I mention it needs to be in portrait mode :-).



5. When I press phone it needs to bring up the dialing pad not the recent calls, however if I press the green button without any numbers typed it would then bring up a tabbed version of the recent calls not bunched in together like it is now and too small you always hit the wrong one. When one pressed just bring up the screen like the one you see when talking to the person and from there you choose if it is a call or a text or whatever other stuff, that would illimiate the middle useless screen, THAT! would be a killer option. The tabbed version would have the outgoing first, Missed Second and received third just like the N95 is now. Makes sense.



6. The Web browser should have two options, open in mobile mode or full mode. While on the go you just want the slim version of the site to get the latest news or just waste time. The full site is when you have both hands to work with and manipulate as you wish.



7. When I'am in file manager I should be able from the menu to do everything that a file manager should do, move, delete, rename, mark and mark all option and oh! yah SEND!. whatever happened to that option. We need to be able to send files through blue-tooth, infrared and whatever else is available in N95 which made all the sense.



8. The messages/conversations should not be so small or close to each other that you almost always hit the wrong one if you use your finger. It needs to be in Portrait mode and in a tabbed format (Sent, Received, etc...) and what would be even a bigger killer is to group them by person. That would make sense



9. The soft keyboard should have navigation arrows (up,down,left,right) just like the hard one. and most importantly should work in Portrait just as if it would in landscape. It really would be a wonderful feature.



10. And last but not least by any mean is when I carry my phone/"mobile device" with me I want to be able to rely on it to stay up and not shutdown where people cannot reach me. It happened several times on this device which put me in a strange situation where I am waiting on a call and the person just could not get to me because it turned off for no reason.



All in all, the device is awesome and worth the money. I know with feedbacks and community participation it will mature fast and furious above all the rest. In the mean time keep up the good work and spirit and again I am glad to be a part of the revolution. ROCK ON!!

1/19/2010 6:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SMS and Recent Calls disappears?????????? why i can't find my received and sent messages and recent calls ???

1/19/2010 7:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

N900 is actually really good as a phone when it comes to voice quality and reliability. Nokia knows how to do it. N900 may not be perfect but I'm still loving it :) It has so many excellent features in both hw and sw. My device has always been perfectly stable with battery life being around 2-3 days.

1/19/2010 3:29 PM  
Blogger Diko said...

OK I read and read and read.....
I just posted on his "future" blog entry my thoughts... now about this one.


PEOPLE WAKE UP, please!

I am not sure about the ESMTP (the full Exchange support protocol) is being already taken care of, but here area a few revolutionary effects that I pleasanty experienced with my 3 days old "Mobile Device" (pretty don't care how NOKIA or YOU will call it. It is actually a matter of perception).

* - User <-> Dev connection

Never ever in my life have I experienced such easy way to communicate with developers.
Even though my work (as a tech support) has somehow something to do with same type of people.

3-4 days I have already 3-4 different feedback/feature requests made.

Can you imagine: "I want this app to have this or that"... Had you ever had such CUSTOMIZABILITY for any of your other DEVICES on this price? ;-)

* - Totaly New GUI and INTERACTIVITY concept.

With the help of some old ideas brigning a new experience in our pocket.

No more e-mail/IM/VoIP/GSM communitcation. Thanks to Communicaitons & Contacts of NOKIA N900's MAEMO, now I DON'T CARE. I am the KING USER and don't want to think all the time about these stupid details in my communication with others. It's all about CONNECTING PEOPLE, after all, isn't it? ;-)

* - The FREEDOM from day one.

I get what I want and what I need.

-> Projecting on big wall/ Screen

-> Conference call (in SKYPE only for the moment)

-> Immediate share with others trhough device's peripherals and Internet services

-> one touch(click) away availability of most features/options.

-> higly customizable and interactive software enviroment.

-> future possibilities that even I can not forseen. (e.g. IRCanon project for remote control over CANON EOS cameras from N900).

And BTW I suggest all those people who have small issues on MSN or others to make sure to deal with it... since this is the TRUE future not only for NOKIA but for all companies on the market. MOBILITY in every SENSE of the WORD.

I only truly hope that NOKIA will preserve this LIMITAION-FREE policy in future.

1/21/2010 5:26 AM  
Blogger Abubakar said...

btw, i dont know what problems people have related to msn, I have Pidgin installed on my n900 and it works perfectly.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Diko, I think YOU MUST WAKE UP.
Are you talking about S60V5?? Because my 5800 have all these amazing features you're talking about. The browser is worst, but 3RD PARTY BROWSERS ROCKS. For that is supposed to be 3rd party apps.

Now, my N900 have... four desktops.
Yeah, how great is the future.

And no, I don't have all I need, not at all!

We're speaking of N900, not future N9xx releases. We aren't sleeping, perhaps you are.

1/23/2010 8:24 AM  
Blogger Diko said...

Hi again,

Call me prejudiced, but really never got it what it takes to get along with Symbian... NOKIA will never admit it, but it is a dead end. Perhaps Iphone-like future... maybe... but not in this segment.

I can not admit that MAEMO is currently getting most already invented things, but it does that with speed of light. As I already said ANONYMOUS, there are plenty of other things that are better from other telephones/smartphones/mobile devices... you were skipping the lines ;-)

And as a whole my previous comment was not about features... "WAKE UP" was about that all these features can be asked in talk.maemo.org... This simply is IMHO not the place.

Give the man a shout about the great work... Don't ask about pieces of stuff to be fixed, here.

SCEPTICSM is not the right approach on OPEN SOURCE. ;-)

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