Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Nokia N900 Review

As promised,here's my first review-


Nokia N900 is one of nokia's latest phones in the market today.It has some good and some bad features like all other phones.
The Good-
     The Nokia N900 offers a powerful mobile Web browser, plenty of storage, a 5-megapixel camera, and an ultra sharp display. It's also fast, multitasks well, and has excellent call quality. Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, and GPS are all on board.
The Bad
      The user interface isn't very intuitive. Ovi Store for the N900 isn't live yet, limiting the number of available apps, and it doesn't sync with Exchanger Server 2003. The phone is a bit bulky and not all apps work in portrait mode.

       The nokia N900 is the next evaluation from nokia and its specifically designed for the internet users.It has the nokia's latest OS Maemo which runs on Linux.It's still early days for N900 and needs more capability and much more sharpness in the work as it has a plenty of potential of being a showstopper.


      As for the design,it has a slider design,N900 has a very little resemblance with its predecessors. It has a screen of 4.37 inches wide by 2.35 inches tall by 0.77 inch thick and 6.38 ounces. In hand, the N900 feels like a very solid phone but the extra weight is noticeable when you're on a phone call and it'll make for a bit of a tight fit in a pants pocket. 
      The WVGA display (800x480 pixels) is amazingly sharp and bright and has an ambient light sensor and brightness controls. Also, although it's a resistive touch screen, which requires that you use a little more pressure than capacitive screens, i found it to be very responsive to our touches, whether we were opening an app, scrolling through lists, or switching between home screens.
      It also has a Qwerty keypad for text entry which can be access by pushing the screen upwards.It is very small compared to the other nokia phones(N97,N97 mini etc.) and may found to be difficulty to access for the first few times
      the Nokia N900's UI isn't very easy to use right out of the box, but with time and customization, it can offer a lot. Running on the Linux-based Maemo platform, the smart phone offers four home-screen panes that you can rotate through by swiping from left to right and vice versa.
     You can personalize each pane with various widgets and shortcuts. To do so, just press on a part of the home screen (outside of any widgets or shortcuts), and you'll see a little tab menu with a settings wheel icon drop down from the top of the screen. Pressing that will bring up another Desktop menu in which you can choose to add a shortcut, contact, bookmark, widget and also change your background or theme.
     I was trying to figuring out how all the menus work and what each icon is takes time and in our experience, requires a lot of trial and error. For example, once you get deeper into a task, it's not always clear how to return to the previous page (you just tap outside the window, by the way), and a simple task like this shouldn't be so confusing. However, you learn with more use and with more time;
    I customized the user interface to our liking and found it quite useful, especially the multitasking window.
    Click here to go to the N900 product page.
    Nokia N900 is priced around $399.99-$469.99 and you can buy it online at Amazon.com or Newegg.com.
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