Val, (et al) For years, I had a Motorola Razr V3xx. It has been a wonderful legacy cellphone, and my wife still uses one. I've watched smartphones come and go over the time. I didn't buy a blackberry. I didn't buy an iPhone. I didn't by the iPhone 3GS when it came out, but I came close. Same sort of thing was the androids started showing up. However, last December, I bought a Nokia N900. I love it. I use it as a phone, including making Skype calls. I use it to text and to chat. I use it as my camera and I stream video on it. The 5 Megapixel camera is great. As a hacker, I love getting under the covers and writing code for it as well as exploring the OS, hacking and installing strange apps. For me, it has definately been worth the money. I can't say if it will be worth it to you. It depends on what you want to get out of the device that you're not getting right now from your current devices. But, as I said, for me, it has been well worth $530 (or that range). Aldon http://www.orient-lodge.com/N900 -----Original Message----- From: maemo-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:maemo-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Valentin Chopov Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:15 PM Cc: maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: n900 - buy or wait? Hi, Let ask my question in a different way ;) If I can somehow afford to pay $530 (Amazon) for n900 now, is it really worth the money ? Thanks, Val On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Valentin Chopov <valcho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks! > I personally think that n900 is too small to be used as a tablet. > I hope until the end of this year we see other linux based tablets/phones. > Val > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Tim Ashman <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 08:09:09 am Marius Gedminas wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:05:31PM -0800, Valentin Chopov wrote: >>> > I'm a current n810 owner and like it very much. I was thinking to >>> > upgrade to n900 (maybe around Christmas) but now after the news about >>> > MeeGo I think it will be better to wait ... >>> >>> It's up to you, really, but as a former n810 owner myself I have to say >>> the n900 is a very substantial upgrade. I wouldn't want to go back. >>> >> >> I have to agree here. It is alot of money and with all of the swirling that >> goes on around Maemo5, 6 Meego etc I might be buying another unit next year >> that will depend on the features of the new units. The only thing I wish >> worked that doesn't on the n900 is the x forwarding oh, and I wish I had the >> older keyboard layout. I think the 3 rows isn't enough, some things are very >> difficult to enter like an IP address since the numbers are blue and the >> decimal point isn't... >> >> Anyway over all it is a great unit and I would not go back. >> >> tim >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
