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[Nokia N900] The next real iphone killer!

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boonlar

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http://www.softsailor.com/news/3503-rumor-nokia-n900-tablet-with-maemo-5-to-be-released-soon.html

Nokia N900 Tablet With Maemo 5 To Be Released Soon

Well, the name might change, but let’s look at its specs which start with a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen with a 800 x 480 resolution, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, dual-LED flash, sliding cover, and of course Carl Zeizz lens, 1GB of total memory with 256MB physical RAM and 768MB of virtual memory, 32GB of internal storage, but expandable to 48GB using a microSD card (?), HSPA, and the identical processor as the one on a Palm Pre: OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz chip.

The Nokia N900 will feature phone capabilities and it will run on quad-band GSP, and tri-band WCDMA. Among its hardware specs, the Rover will feature GPS with accelerometer, WiFi, a 1320mAh battery, a proximity sensor, and another camera in the front. This upcoming Nokia Tablet will measure 59.7 x 111 x 18.2 mm, and it will weigh 180g.
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Finally a maemo phone! I want to see what apple will offer to compete with this beast.

BTW maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux and draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and libraries from the GNOME project. It uses the Matchbox window manager, and the GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework. So expect to be able to use linux apps on this.
 
Sigh, whatever. Its a Nokia product, so I'm sure it'll cost around $600-up for it, which means a lot of people aren't going to buy it.
 
boonlar said:
http://www.softsailor.com/news/3503-rumor-nokia-n900-tablet-with-maemo-5-to-be-released-soon.html

Nokia N900 Tablet With Maemo 5 To Be Released Soon



Finally a maemo phone! I want to see what apple will offer to compete with this beast.

BTW maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux and draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and libraries from the GNOME project. It uses the Matchbox window manager, and the GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework. So expect to be able to use linux apps on this.
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You must work for Microsoft. CLEARLY plenty of phones with "superior" specs on paper have been released in the past 1.5 years as iPhone killers. None have managed due to their piss-poor software and user experience. This Nokia will be no different. When will companies learn it's not about specs on paper or having the shiniest gadget?
 
Revelation78 said:
You must work for Microsoft. CLEARLY plenty of phones with "superior" specs on paper have been released in the past 1.5 years as iPhone killers. None have managed due to their piss-poor software and user experience. This Nokia will be no different. When will companies learn it's not about specs on paper or having the shiniest gadget?
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Because this device has anything to do with Microsoft right? Also the special thing about this device IS the software. Maemo is probably the most powerful and versatile mobile OS out there.
 
boonlar said:
Because this device has anything to do with Microsoft right? Also the special thing about this device IS the software. Maemo is probably the most powerful and versatile mobile OS out there.
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WOW! The Microsoft comment was a 747 flying low right over your head and you totally missed it, at least the meaning of it!

Maemo the best mobile OS out there, nah, i can think of others. Not to mention since Nokia has touched it, it won't be good.

You know I would love for them to prove me wrong.
 
Revelation78 said:
WOW! The Microsoft comment was a 747 flying low right over your head and you totally missed it, at least the meaning of it!

Maemo the best mobile OS out there, nah, i can think of others. Not to mention since Nokia has touched it, it won't be good.

You know I would love for them to prove me wrong.
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show me something better
 
Its time to grow up

The current iPhone 3G! With its proven OS and with a UI that’s still ahead of the game, the iPhone is a better device. Don’t forget the added bonus of the App Store; “There’s an app for that”. I used a WinMo smartphone for a year. The first few months were fine. Although once I began to save documents, music, videos and game files to the device, it began to function at a slow crawl and crash every other day. Then I tried a Nokia smartphone which worked a little better, however it lacked many of the functions that make a smartphone practical and fun. My iPhone resolves theses issues with style. When you pull that unmistakable chrome lined 3.5” glass screen, slim and sleek device out of your pocket, people know its an iPhone. The many many cheap oversized, bulky plastic, kid’s toy looking smartphones are a thing of the past.
 
boonlar said:
http://www.softsailor.com/news/3503-rumor-nokia-n900-tablet-with-maemo-5-to-be-released-soon.html

Nokia N900 Tablet With Maemo 5 To Be Released Soon



Finally a maemo phone! I want to see what apple will offer to compete with this beast.

BTW maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux and draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and libraries from the GNOME project. It uses the Matchbox window manager, and the GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework. So expect to be able to use linux apps on this.
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Thats a stunner. Great specs to boot and a 5 megapix camera with carl zies. If Nokia do anything well, its a cracking mobile camera
 
boonlar said:
show me something better
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Not sure if you noticed - but Apple released something in 2007 called, um - the iPhone??

I have used and bought lots of what they call "smart phones".

The iPhone IMO is by far the best, and I'm not going to change my mind because it is a way ahead of any other phones.

There was nearly no touchscreens before the iPhone was announced - recently my sister was due for an upgrade? Guess what phones she could only get?? Touchscreens.

Stupid. The iPhones software will beat Nokia's any time, any day.
 

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The current iPhone 3G! With its proven OS and with a UI that’s still ahead of the game, the iPhone is a better device. Don’t forget the added bonus of the App Store; “There’s an app for that”. I used a WinMo smartphone for a year. The first few months were fine. Although once I began to save documents, music, videos and game files to the device, it began to function at a slow crawl and crash every other day. Then I tried a Nokia smartphone which worked a little better, however it lacked many of the functions that make a smartphone practical and fun. My iPhone resolves theses issues with style. When you pull that unmistakable chrome lined 3.5” glass screen, slim and sleek device out of your pocket, people know its an iPhone. The many many cheap oversized, bulky plastic, kid’s toy looking smartphones are a thing of the past.
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Wow are you related to this guy??v:eek:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/707398/
 
The NEXT real iPhone killer? What was the one before? Will there ever be an iPhone killer? No.

There will always be competing models from other manufacturers, which will do everything under the sun apart from stir your cup of tea after it's made it, but the fact of the matter is that the majority of iPhone owners have one because it's by Apple.

You could clone the iPhone's interface and app store with all those 35,000+ apps (but it'd be a hell of a job to be fair), put it on a Nokia and double everything in terms of its capabilities, and yet most current iPhone owners would still stick with their iPhones.
 
The Pre is the only device that can be considered a iPhone killer, but killer is such a misleading word. Nothing is going to "kill" the iPhone. The Pre is going to be the first real competitor.
 
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