N900 first impressions
Owning the Nokia N900 for a couple of days now, I will summarize my first impressions in this blag post. Before I start I will tell you where I am coming from phone wise and will base my review on that.
I have had the Nokia e61i for quite a while, but it has only been little more than half a year that I have had a phone rate with a reasonable data plan which allowed me to use the interwebs on my phone.
What I liked about the e61i:
- Battery life was awsome.
- General sturdyness. The phone has taken quite a beating and stood up to it pretty well.
- The keyboard. The tactile feel of the keyboard and the way this phone fit into my hands made writing emails, SMS or IRC messages a charm.
- Sound quality and reception was ok.
- Multitasking. I frequently surfed the webs while hanging out on IRC through puTTY and irssi in a screen session.
- iSyncing my address book and calendars worked reasonably well.
- The looks. Reminded me of an old HP calculator. Nice.
What I disliked about the e61i:
- Sloooow. It would take up to a minute to start Opera or Google maps.
- Lack of GPS.
- The keyboard. While the tactile aspect was good, the lettering of the keys was sub par.
- The proprietary connector. I can not emphasize this enough. If I had a stick and the responsible product manager in front of me…
- Each internet app would ask whether it was allowed to use the net and you’d have to click through a couple of dialogues every time.
- Media player sucks
Generally I liked the e61i so much, that I seriously considered buying its recent e-Series sibling, the e72. That phone seems to have addressed most, if not all, of the issues I had with the e61i. But then I thought that if I am shelling out 300 Euros, I might as well spend 500 and go for the new hottness.
Enter the Nokia N900. mehr »
