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The next major update is coming very soon, but not sure why it hasn't come and the N900 has launched in Malaysia and Singapore! So, does it mean the Malaysian and Singapore users will need to manually update it anytime soon? Plus, I think there're quite some improvements in the next update, it's seems like not a wise move to launch before the major update.
Even the milestone official set comes with Android 2.1.

Congratulations! Did you get the DC-11?

And can you check your firmware version?

That's why I've been saying, they should have wait for the latest "major" update which is coming very soon, before they launch officially in Malaysia. I honestly don't know what's the rush to launch since the major update is just around the corner, besides, there're 2 apps in the repositories which are PR1.2 ready (based on the PR1.2 SDK). To be able to install it, we will need to wait for the latest firmware update.
Plus, there're quite a lot of changes to the User Guide/Manual itself (for the latest update that is).

As for the problems you're facing:
1. Is the unit you tested a new device, just boot for the 1st time? If yes, I do experience some lagging issue during 1st boot up. Give it some time to settle down, everything sets in. Or try restarting the device.
2. If the unit is the display unit, it depends if the unit has been messed with before and how long has it been running. Sometimes, some apps tends to occupy the memory/processing, best to install the System Info widget which allows you to monitor the processor and ram usage. Sometimes, after a restart, the phone will perform smooth again. It's just like a PC, sometimes just do a restart and the performance will be back again.

Honestly, it's no point just to judge based on a short test especially if you're a smartphone users, more if you have used the previous Maemo device before; but yea, I do agree, it's not stable enough compare with other mobile OS, but hey, even N97 has many problems when it first launch, so does few other Symbian smartphones. Plus, the N900 wasn't initially planned for Asia released; I guess they kind of rush it? If they want to launch, should've launch it earlier, if they plan to launch now, should've just wait for the PR1.2 update. Honestly, don't know what is Nokia Malaysia/Singapore thinking, probably they look from marketing point of view? To compete with Milestone and other device which also launch around the same time, so they rather not wait for the updates, and take the risk of having a bad image/reputation? They put great advertisements and boast about the greatness of the phone, but many might not know that this phone lacks of basic phones features, and still has many things to improve... At least the PR1.2 would solve some of the issues.
Too bad then, and they need to expect the Customers to know more of this phone and update the phone pretty soon.


I bought my 16GB for around RM160++ quite some time ago.

Totally agree! They need to place a product specialist, one that's familiar with this device, the technologies and knows what's the selling point of this device, also have experience and knowledge on the other competitor to pin point the specialty and uniqueness of this device, such as the Desktop concept, while others are using the simple Home Screen.

Problem is, even for Symbian device, their sales staff which I encountered before aren't really experience or knows in depth of the phone itself. They have the device all to themselves to play, learn, etc. but seems they never really do, perhaps when hiring, they need to find those that have interest in mobile? This is also same case in other industry, such as cars, usually the buyer knows more than the sales person, and sometimes the sales person cannot answer the questions and always refer to the brochure... They're given opportunity to test the car, explore, play with the car, yet they don't know much about the car, while those people interested buyer would want to test drive as many times as possible.

Anyway, previous I've posted this as well, in YouTube, you can see those people who went for the N900 launching, they really, I mean, REALLY question the sales staff with technical questions, and I'm impress the sales staffs there can really answer many of the technical questions. All these are recorded on videos. I wonder what happen if we ask those questions over here,

One thing good is, many owners here will survey and do their own research on the device before actually purchase, and we have the members/community to support, share and help each other.

One of my favourite, contains good and bad of the phone and also talks about those that might not be suitable for this phone and finally, the power of the device:


Here's another video, see how this guy push N900 to the limit in multi-tasking (this is part 2 actually):

Don't play straight away, flash videos seems take up some resources. Wait a while and try to play, it should get smoother, but hard to get super smooth. Hopefully the next update will fix this issue, and not sure if there will be Flash v10 support

Sometimes when the phone is slow (usually after few days never restart), might cause some lagging problem as well, to make it simple, a restart will improve the phone performance again.

That depends, if it's running smoothly, there's not really need to restart; But if you face auto-restart problem, you should check the bootcount and manually restart to prevent some problems; Install HealthCheck which can help you check the Boot Count.

I think nowadays most people don't off the phone during sleep. Not sure how many still does it.

That's good news