Yup, previously I have mentioned that Nokia has long abondon the ship, everything is up to the community.

Problem is, many people don't know where to find the software and app, and have little knowledge about smartphone and they claim the N900 is not powerful. Maybe those people are looking for great camera, so if camera not good = not powerful. Or some people looking for multi-touch, so no multi-touch = not powerful, or apps, etc. They totally get the wrong meaning of powerful.

Usually if u are not sure its best to get iphone or android. Because everyday ppl will brain wash u here and there.

Its like u have a sniper rfile. If u do not know how to use or handle the sniper rifle is useless cant even kill anything.
If u pass it to a professional they can even kill someone from a mile away or even at close range.

Good luck mate.

This just my opinion no offense. I got n900 and have no regrets even i have an iphone now

Actually i have zero experience in maemo or even linux too. Because i get n900 not because my friend say whether its good or not because i know whats N900 is capacble of.

First decide what you want by deciding what the purpose you are buying for.  If stop gadget for a long time better get iphone because Maemo is for more advance user. if u expect for super graphics, alot of games and etc etc u wont find it here. If u looking for exploring, testing new application, customizing, hacking,cracking, have something different Nokia n900 is for u

for me N900 isn't that perfect....reason: N900 is great at internet but poor on normal phone call section....nokia didn't make it balance....for me i said N900 isn't good enough cos i'm more on phone call than internet.....different story if opposite

Can type chinese must need 3rd party

You can always check YouTube for walkthrough guide on the phone OS and features, how it look like, etc. When I want to buy the N900, it was not even available in Malaysia yet, not even AP set. Some people bring it in and selling for > RM3K... I check out everything from YouTube, how the OS look like, how the messaging look like, etc. I got hooked because it's totally different from any smartphone out there, it's outstanding, nothing can come close.
When some companies start it bring it in, it's still around RM2.4K ~ RM 2.6K, and not long after, lowyat.net AP seller start selling around RM2.2K.

I guess you can check out this review, which will tell you the pros and cons, and finally the end about the powerful features of the phone. It also mentioned about the type of users that is not suitable to use this phone:


As per previous mentioned, Nokia has abandon the ship, there may be updates, but might take long time and mostly probably bug fixing? They're concentrating on MeeGo now, Maemo is their sort of testing ground.
Might as well check out the community which they really have done A LOT and provide many missing features, customization to the OS. There're so many things that you will NOT find in any smartphones today, this is a tablet (in short, think about a NOTEBOOK with TOUCHSCREEN, shrink down to the size of a handphone).

No news about Flash 10; Nokia is being very cunning and confidential, they don't allow Adobe to give out any information and they themselves also don't want to say anything. But from the supported list, they mention Symbian and MeeGo, no mentioned of Maemo...

By default N900 can support Chinese test, you can read Chinese. For Chinese input, there is 3rd party apps for it. It was launch in HK by the way, so it has to have Chinese support.
If you check out the launching in HK and other country (go google or YouTube), you will see their country's Nokia is FAR FAR better than ours, see how they promote and how much they understand the product.

If i start showing u everything its better i charge u a fee i do a manual with photos for you, summary, bar charts of device comparison, List of tasks n900 capable to do vs other devices, start up a chat room to answer every question. hehe right or not. Please understand we are users not sellers even shop cant give u info as detail as us.

The screenshot is to show u the n900 homescreen only. After u get the n900 u might have other complains like where to get this where to get that. Thats the time to ask. I think if u do this to a shop even the shop wont entertain you.

Hope you understand its like you go to shop ask 500 questions then later buy something else do u think the shop be happy?

Buy it then they will be willing to answer all your details question before buy are summary details. Same like us buy it then only ask detailed question or else u keep coming back tell us your friends telling u something else is better

I am not trying to be rude but i just want to be honest    like all of us said no matter what we said u wont understand until u use the device.
Just my opinion

Hehe u also must understand our own shoes we are users not sellers.

Users - learn to improve device experience after purchase
Seller- must know how to sell the product and answer before purchase & after service

after u have the device in your hand when we reply/share the information it also become valuable to others as well. I wanted an n900 it was first announce.

Nokia n900 is not a smartphone its a tablet with phone capability. Ppl keep getting confuse and compare n900 with a smartphone.

No worries i am also sharing as well i dont hope u make the wrong decision. Actually we can do assist you to make decision all you need to do is list down what do u want to use the phone for. We can immediately tell you whether n900 is suitable for u.

When u are decided of n900 then stop googling and asking ppl around GET IT.

No offense ya my intention is to share only

So far, no good GPS app for Malaysia. There's Sygic but the mao is very dated. Since this is your 2nd phone, I think the GPS may not be one of the important thing for you since you can have alternatives on your 1st phone?

Fir standalone MSN app, there's aMSN which is Desktop version, but it takes up a lot of resources. There's other 3rd party app which allows you to connect to other IM accounts.
I can tell you straight that you might be better off forget about 3rd party app. Just use the Conversations, it's so much easier, no need to purposely open the program, then click sign in. Then need to switch around, etc.
With the built-in conversations, when you're online, all your accounts can be online and you can see your friend's status in your contact book, it's a lot better really.
Besides, you can place Contacts on your desktop, then you can see their IM status as well. No need to purposely start an app, sign in, and check through one by one.
You can also read the review from ShaolinTiger, very well written, as below he posted:

finally you're here! faster go try out all the software that sparks your interest.

congrats!!~~~ at last ...u bought the phone yea.....hehehe...happy playing with ur new toy

May i know overclock at 125-800 better or 250 -800? izit 125-800 less voltage more power saving?

ehmm will post here the battery benchmark..stay tune...will squeeze kao kao..on this 2(original and FoneMax) battery..will update u guys with the screen capture....
FONEMAX BL-5J VS zitron BL-5J

everybody can say whatever wattage battery they got...anybody care to send me sunglobal battery so i can benchmark all of them....
this just my boring time job..
FYI i only got fonemax and nokia battery unit...i don't buy sunglobal battery yet..i only test this 2 unit...  
still waiting for fonemax battery to fully charge..