Nokia N900

Danbo! · 12-05-2010 3:37pm

Sparks wrote: »

Don't mind it being thicker

While I tend to defend the N900's quirks where reasonable, I really cannot defend the thickness. Its one chunky bastard of a phone, and if battery life affected me enough to need a longer life battery, I'd sell the phone before making it any thicker.

funkyjebus · 12-05-2010 3:48pm

hi guys. anyone else get 'free public wifi' when they go into internet connections. its always there with full signal and unlocked. how do i get rid of it as it clearly not a real connection.

Domscard · 12-05-2010 4:01pm

funkyjebus wrote: »

hi guys. anyone else get 'free public wifi' when they go into internet connections. its always there with full signal and unlocked. how do i get rid of it as it clearly not a real connection.

Have you tried it to establish if you can actually connect/surf etc? Maybe you're just lucky to be in range of this freebie?

Domscard · 12-05-2010 4:06pm

Thor wrote: »

here is the battery you are talking about here!!

Battery

It does have a lens cover on it so nothing to worry about there.

Yeah, that's the video I'd seen before - some serious looking nails on that woman

I think it looks fine and if the price/availability was ok, I'd sprig for it. Definitely thick looking, but the N900 is thick anyway.

god's toy · 12-05-2010 4:08pm

Just to note, it may or may not be related but my battery is being hammerd from the time i downloaded Opera.
even after a few restarts and if its not running. odd.
going to look more into it.

funkyjebus · 12-05-2010 4:09pm

Domscard wrote: »

Have you tried it to establish if you can actually connect/surf etc? Maybe you're just lucky to be in range of this freebie?

actually no. i connected by mistake one day but quicky disconnected. didn't try and surf, as all seemed to dodgy.

Its defo fake, as it followed me to the burren in clare last week from dublin!!!

i aslo noticed today that there is no percent button on the keyboard. WTF?

Danbo! · 12-05-2010 4:12pm

god's toy wrote: »

Just to note, it may or may not be related but my battery is being hammerd from the time i downloaded Opera.
even after a few restarts and if its not running. odd.
going to look more into it.

About 5 days ago my battery started wasting very quickly. I'd unplug it from the charger in the morning and by 12 it would be circa 40%, and that was without much use. This lasted for 3 days and then was back to normal from tuesday onwards.

No new installs or anything, although MicroB was acting the maggot during the 3 days, such as not asking me for internet connections and when I went to select one manually, it would just give me the spinning refreshing logo.

Installed opera last night and have been playing with it a good bit today, battery still circa 70% now, which is about average for me this time of day.

Danbo! · 12-05-2010 4:17pm

funkyjebus wrote: »

i aslo noticed today that there is no percent button on the keyboard. WTF?

Yeah its strange that it is buried in the symbol screen along with | (pipe) which is used in linux a lot.

Alanstrainor · 12-05-2010 4:56pm

funkyjebus wrote: »

actually no. i connected by mistake one day but quicky disconnected. didn't try and surf, as all seemed to dodgy.

Its defo fake, as it followed me to the burren in clare last week from dublin!!!

i aslo noticed today that there is no percent button on the keyboard. WTF?

Go into the n900's settings, connectivity, internet connections, connections, delete the free public wifi.

funkyjebus · 12-05-2010 5:08pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Go into the n900's settings, connectivity, internet connections, connections, delete the free public wifi.

And its.....gone. Thanks

podge018 · 14-05-2010 2:31pm

does your slider go straight up, or can you move the right hand side diagonally up a bit, then level it off on the left as its going up? Say you were pushing it up with your right thumb and you exerted the force on the right side at the bottom, would it go up level?

I dropped mine and dont know if Ive loosened something or if it was always like this.

Thor · 14-05-2010 2:40pm

podge018 wrote: »

does your slider go straight up, or can you move the right hand side diagonally up a bit, then level it off on the left as its going up? Say you were pushing it up with your right thumb and you exerted the force on the right side at the bottom, would it go up level?

I dropped mine and dont know if Ive loosened something or if it was always like this.

Mine has a little leeway in it, But it has always been like that. I think it has something to do with the machanism. Not positive.

Danbo! · 14-05-2010 2:46pm

podge018 wrote: »

does your slider go straight up, or can you move the right hand side diagonally up a bit, then level it off on the left as its going up? Say you were pushing it up with your right thumb and you exerted the force on the right side at the bottom, would it go up level?

I dropped mine and dont know if Ive loosened something or if it was always like this.

Yeah i've got a bit of leeway in it too. Only slightly though, as in I'd only notice it if I was looking for it.

Thor · 14-05-2010 2:47pm

Stee wrote: »

Yeah i've got a bit of leeway in it too. Only slightly though, as in I'd only notice it if I was looking for it.

Yeah that is exactly what i have!!

My guess is that its normal.

Other then that the phone has great build quality.

Domscard · 14-05-2010 3:10pm

podge018 wrote: »

does your slider go straight up, or can you move the right hand side diagonally up a bit, then level it off on the left as its going up? Say you were pushing it up with your right thumb and you exerted the force on the right side at the bottom, would it go up level?

I dropped mine and dont know if Ive loosened something or if it was always like this.

Mine just goes straight up - no leeway that I can see. Hope yours is ok

Tom Dunne · 14-05-2010 3:15pm

Anyone notice a slowdown in the operation of the phone when you have a load of songs/videos on the device? I've about 3,500 songs and about 65 videos and it seems a little sluggish, not just when opening media player, but the whole phone in general.

I am rebooting every so often now to speed things up.

Alanstrainor · 14-05-2010 4:00pm

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Anyone notice a slowdown in the operation of the phone when you have a load of songs/videos on the device? I've about 3,500 songs and about 65 videos and it seems a little sluggish, not just when opening media player, but the whole phone in general.

I am rebooting every so often now to speed things up.

I'm not finding the device slow with a lot of media on it. But the media player is pretty poor though, not terrible, but definitely has room for improvement. The media player seems to take up a lot of cpu time when im randomly playing everything.
EDIT: Btw i have about 3000 songs and no movies.

not_xanthor · 14-05-2010 6:59pm

Mine *appears* to be slowing down a little in Micro B. Even with the cache empty, and the processor clocked to 900.

...anyone else's slowing down on the browser? Or am i just imagning it........

jesus_thats_gre · 14-05-2010 8:31pm

Mine has slowed down recently too. I assumed it is some application that I recently installed or updated.

MackDeToaster · 15-05-2010 8:47pm

I'm still holding out on one of these until a version of Ovi Maps that's as good as the Symbian one is released, and I need Viewranger too. It's killing me it is as in nearly every other way this is my perfect handset.

In the meantime I spotted this great blog post yesterday with a handy list of apps that some might find useful...

http://tinyurl.com/39uwhqr

OneWayBet · 17-05-2010 2:07pm

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Mine has slowed down recently too. I assumed it is some application that I recently installed or updated.

Mine has been fine, though I just recently ramped mine up to 900Mhz so maybe that's why I perceive it to be fast :-)

Thor · 17-05-2010 2:11pm

MackDeToaster wrote: »

I'm still holding out on one of these until a version of Ovi Maps that's as good as the Symbian one is released, and I need Viewranger too. It's killing me it is as in nearly every other way this is my perfect handset.

In the meantime I spotted this great blog post yesterday with a handy list of apps that some might find useful...

http://tinyurl.com/39uwhqr

you could always just buy sygic for it, In my opinion its better then ovi maps(the one that actually works)

its €40 for the uk and ireland maps and €60 for all of europe.

Pretty decent deal considering the program is excellent.

god's toy · 17-05-2010 3:57pm

I tested version 9 from the ovi store and was let down big time. Dont know who they get mapping software from but it didnt have a lot of things i serched for. Most shocking was Dublin Zoo! ended up wifes ovi maps on her x6 and it was sopot on for everything.

I hear Version 10 is better but i'd wait for nokia to sort there maps out for the 900.

Alanstrainor · 18-05-2010 9:30am

Thor wrote: »

you could always just buy sygic for it, In my opinion its better then ovi maps(the one that actually works)

its €40 for the uk and ireland maps and €60 for all of europe.

Pretty decent deal considering the program is excellent.

Got this yesterday, haven't actually used it outside the house yet!, but it's impressive to use and the maps appear accurate, and it has a nicer UI. I suppose it's worth the cash, although if OVI maps is coming i'd be inclined to just wait.

Irish Gunner · 18-05-2010 7:57pm

Well have my N900 back and the earpiece was faulty but got it replaced and now I can hear the callers:D

Anywho just a few questions.
Has anyone loaded any codecs onto the phone or will it play all formats?
Have the radio app installed and it turns on the bluetooth which seems to eat the battery. Is there only the one app Petrovich or are there others?
Is there any earphones etc that are available where I can switch between radio and songs or even change the radio station without taking the phone out of my pocket

EriT · 18-05-2010 8:32pm

thinking of getting one of these ive had an omnia i900 for the last 9months and i hate it

god's toy · 18-05-2010 8:34pm

EriT wrote: »

thinking of getting one of these ive had an omnia i900 for the last 9months and i hate it

Yep I had one for a year and my good lord it drove me nuts. Hated it at the end.

loving the N900 but be warned it's no iphone. (and in my book thats a very good thing!)

EriT · 18-05-2010 8:37pm

god's toy wrote: »

Yep I had one for a year and my good lord it drove me nuts. Hated it at the end.

loving the N900 but be warned it's no iphone. (and in my book thats a very good thing!)

Never had or used an iPhone so wont bother me. I did how ever have an N95 and loved that infact ive had about 8 Nokia phones and never had a problem dont no why i bought this piece of crap

god's toy · 18-05-2010 8:39pm

EriT wrote: »

Never had or used an iPhone so wont bother me. I did how ever have an N95 and loved that infact ive had about 8 Nokia phones and never had a problem dont no why i bought this piece of crap

Funny thing is before my i900, I too had a N95! And still do have it too. really liked that one.

not_xanthor · 18-05-2010 9:25pm

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Has anyone loaded any codecs onto the phone or will it play all formats?

Well there's a FLAC codec if that's any use to you.

god's toy wrote: »

Yep I had one for a year and my good lord it drove me nuts. Hated it at the end.

loving the N900 but be warned it's no iphone. (and in my book thats a very good thing!)

Definitely an adjustment period... TBH a month later, and there's the odd time i wish i had a normal phone which does normal phone things..; like oh, a proper portrait mode... but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Nokia N900

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