Comments on: Nokia N900 now available for pre-order, who is buying one?

By: Joseph A

Joseph A — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:19:25 +0000

N900 why is it that we in Canada always get the short end of the stick, I’m a Bell subscriber which I will end soon, the phones that Bell offers tend to be Bland and never leading edge, at least they wised up and started carrying the iphone of which I would not buy, the Nokia N97 I must say is great disappointment, and it is funny how we in Canada are stuck with the lower quality products when right under our noses Nokia flaunts the N900 in the USA of which we can’t get over here, Come On NOKIA REMEMBER CANADA, we may have restrictions on our communications carriers but that will be ending soon, and hope that you will wise up and offer all your phones to us also…

By: Steve B.

Steve B. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:16:05 +0000

@may: I used companies like that and I have actually never used Shipito but it seems that they have better prices on their site than the other ones. I will give it a try.

By: may

may — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:39 +0000

@sidd: Yes it will work there, but the warranty is only good in the U.S. My friend went through Shipito and had it shipped to him all the way in indonesia where it isn’t sold either and it is fine.

By: Sidd

Sidd — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:31:53 +0000

Hey guys, wanted to knw if the Nokia N900 unlocked version will work in Canada on a prepaid Rogers sim card? Beacuse the Nokia n900 is never going to get launched in Canada, no way it will come here….

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:34:24 +0000

Not me. Countless problems with early 5800, which was supposed to be my “first contact” with the smartphone world.

Not that I don’t like the concept, of course. I can’t live without a smartphone anymore, but as for Nokia… I’m doing like others… I will wait until december watching the blogs. If they don’t fix the problems (if any), I may even go Android or something, even if the form factor of its phones are not th best IMO.

By: sjhong

sjhong — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:55:13 +0000

I've been thinking about the N900 and there are a few things about it that, individually, bother me a little. In ensemble, they make me 95% sure I won't be buying this device.

1) No AT&T 3G I'm used to the N97 which is extremely fast on 3G, so now I can't see myself going back to EDGE speeds. And switching to T-Mobile just for this phone would be ridiculous.

2) Anssi Remember what the guy said in his speech at Nokia World, right? Maemo 5 is just he 4th step out of 5. Maemo 6 will be the sh!t.

3) It's a tablet first, then a smartphone This one, I believe, is related to 2). The N900 is essentially a tablet. If you pay attention to the preview videos, you will notice that the interface doesn't switch to portrait mode, even when the slider is closed. The only shots I've seen with the screen showing something usable on portrait mode was on the phone dialer interface. It means that for any function other than calling somebody you will need two hands on this thing (that's what she said). Well, one may argue that the phone mode is actually the only instance when you wanna use the phone in portrait mode. I beg to disagree, turning the phone around to landscape mode and using two hands all the time will be annoying.

The N900 looks awesome if you look at the hardware specs. In the daily use though, I will reserve my judgement until after I see some lengthy reviews. I definitely won't be pre-ordering it. From Nokia USA much less! PLEASE remember their extremely Nazi exchange policy!!

By: KevinK

KevinK — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:15:42 +0000

I pre-ordered mine today though there’s no (public) estimated ship date. I hear that T-Mobile’s 3G network is pretty limited …

By: steef

steef — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:16:24 +0000

question how to order the n900 in the states for shipping to holland?

By: mistermix

mistermix — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:31:16 +0000

I’m still hoping that T-Mob will get it, as I’m planning on switching to T-Mob and am willing to sign up for a contract to get the subsidy.

By: Brett Q.

Brett Q. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:12:01 +0000

I pre-ordered as soon as someone said it was available on Twitter. The N900 is really the device that I have been waiting for all these years. Will it live up to my expectations? No clue, but I am more than willing to give it a shot.