I tried putting it to flight mode but unfortunately my alarm doesn't ring if I do so. I am not sure if it is still the same because I used N9 some time back before PR1.2 update.

Just tried it out. Yes, the alarm rings in flight mode.

Cool, thanks for the info.

I off and pull the plug every nite and every time not at home, last time pc and modem got zap by thunder before, so now scared liao.
If no internet connection and you dont hv apps that will auto run in background, then on or off phone is abt the same.

If you have used one, you may understand the feeling. EVen now, I still prefer the N900. Some of the N900 users after switching to other still looked back. You know there're few exceptional device from Nokia? Like 6600, N95, etc. N900 is one of them with very complete hardware (there's Infrared, stereo speaker, lens cover, stylus, qwerty) and a great OS. With the default browser, you can activate the "mouse cursor" so you can do the drag and drop thing, you can do "hover", useful on dynamic websites, you can visit desktop version of Facebook and pretty much do everything like the desktop version, chat, organize pictures in album (drag-and-drop). You can easily select portion of the text too since you can activate the mouse cursor, and use keyboard short-cuts.

Then the multi-tasking is a breeze and convenient to use, just tap the top left you'll go into mutl-tasking window and you can easily switch between apps. So, let's say I'm half way SMS, I can switch to the browser copy some text, switch back to SMS and paste there easily and fast. I tried doing the same on Android, oh the horror.

What I can say is, it's like having a mini pocket-size laptop in your hand, and it can do many basic/usual things that a laptop can do. This in my opinion, brings smartphone experience a closer step to mobile computer experience, what initially POCKET PC meant to achieve.
It doesn't need the person to be advance to use it, if a person can use the computer, it's pretty much the same, there's a desktop like usualy computer where you can put your icons anywhere you like, even overlap one another, no restrictions like where you can put and so on; so the customization of the Desktop is most unique, you can find many creatively design desktop from many users. In LYN N900 thread, there're many types of users, so it's no necesarily one must be advance user. The main issue is the lack of apps/games, official MMS support, 3G calls. The Ovi store is practically useless. Nokia never seem to bother about MMS and 3G calls even up to PR1.3. MMS was supported by 3rd party application and it uses data/internet instead.

There's mplayer (uses processing power) which can decode most of the video file format/types, also have subtitles support. With TV Out, it can also serve as a media player, just dump videos into it and most of the time it just plays without any issue unless it's higher quality, then it may not be able to render properly or at all. There's also Knots2, which allows streaming of video via wifi from the PC's VLC Player, so I can use my PC to stream HD videos to N900 and output through TV.

Anyway, it's a great device, if only there's a better spec version to catch up with today's standard.

Thanks, will look into that Drop Cache.
Last time when I run Firefox and close later, I notice the device is laggy as well, have to restart.

Yup, you can say most (if not all) those great apps for N900 is free. I don't visit OVI Store. In N900, by default there's App Manager, which you can add other repository (something like Cydia on jailbroken iOS), here you can find tons of apps, there're some ported from Desktop version (there's Chromium aka Google Chrome), there're also WarCraft2 & StarCraft (whcih runs on different engine), there's DOSBox, so much more. There's also some Java package you can install, then you can run NetBeans IDE! That's plain crazy though.
With Ir, there's Ir Remote app (as usual) and also Remote Trigger for DSLR.
Anyway, there're many nice apps, but most people wants those famous and popular apps like those on iOS and Adroids.
There's WebOS game ported by some dev though, and some member runs on Nitdroid to have some Android games; but still, the experience will not be the same as having an iOS or Android.

Basically, the main attraction for most people is simple, they want apps and games, those that are popular and nice. Nokia didn't push enough effort on this for Maemo and MeeGo, even Samsung did better for their Bada OS?
As for Microsoft, I believe they've been pushing hard on this since sometime a go.

N9 video playback is not as good as N8; I tested some 720p video, N9 cannot play it properly but N8 has no problem at all.
As for DLNA, I suppose Symbian is more widely use and they have larger teams and more attention, so there should be less issue and if any, it could be rectified and sorted much faster.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Mar 22 2012, 05:11 PM

i was also thinking about N900 before this, but the only thing that sets be away is the resistive touch. While most N900 users says it's not needed,but for me, i am spoiled by capacitive already

but yeah, had a handson on Nicholas' device last time, the UI and the way it works is just simple yet amazing, had this became Nokia's mainstream touch device, they would have NO PROBLEM catching the market, even when you go heads on with iOS, if the many shortfalls are supported officially

Yea, the resistive touch, but there's good things about it especially for smaller screen where precision is important, you can use stylus or fingernails or other objects. I don't have to zoom in when I need to click a link (and I don't or rarely zoom in when browsing during N900 time). However, multi-touch is still a desirable feature. The responsiveness of N900's resistive screen is actually very good compared with many other resistive screen.
Now there's Samsung Galaxy Note which show off the drawing ability, but I find drawing on N900 is somewhat easier despite the smaller screen; not sure if the Note stylus can be calibrated cause sometimes or most of the time, I find when I touch the screen with the stylus, it register somewhere else.

Anyway, N900 have a port of MyPaint app, a powerful paint application, and someone have done nice drawings with it. Even LYN have some users done some art with it.

Here one interesting one, considering the small screen, it's amazing.


As for competition, I think N900 may fall in different categeory as iPhone. Hence, it'll be nice for Nokia to support multi-platform; For iPhone, in my opinion, the Windows Phone OS does have the potential to compete against it, but the problem is branding and popularity.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Mar 22 2012, 05:52 PM

Can the N900 run Android well?

yes, nitDroid, i recall it's running so well(perfectly fine with all features stable and all) , Google actually officially recognize N900 as one of the 'android devices'

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Mar 22 2012, 06:06 PM

hi,i want to ask you all,i want to go NCC coz my phone accelerometer not functioning well,which ncc give the best service?

this happens to my old 5800XM too, except the vanish part

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This post has been edited by pikacu: Mar 22 2012, 08:17 PM

fastest try amcorp mall

meego or android?

anyone tried it? give us some review
btw, i heard installing dual boot kernel will make ur phone 'lupa'
cannot remember password anymore like pr1.1

Of course meego la...android is just to boot in occasionally to run an Android app. If you want full time Android better get a real Android phone.

Nokia Link is useless compared to Nokia Suite. So do you people back up Contacts and Calender?

Try Nokia PC Suite, ver 7.1.62.1

i sync everything to google contacts LOL

I have Nokia Suite (for the N8) installed and was concern whether there will be crashes if I also install Nokia PC Suite on same computer.

I've got Nokia Link, Nokia Suite, PC Suite, Nokia Software Updater, all on my PC, lol. No crashes
You can also do Upsilon's suggestion