Thread: N900: The Great "It's a phone!" vs. "It's not a phone; it's a mobile computer!" Debate
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ChoMar is offline ChoMar
2010-11-25 , 13:08
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My pocket computer is Dell Axim x50 Pocket PC from 6 years ago, was half the price of the N900, is more powerful at computing. Came with a 624 MHz chip and had a word processor that worked. Contacts worked. I turn it on and it works, I load software and they run, I plug it in and it charges, I play games and they don't crash. There are games, I can go online and buy games and software for it. (even today) and it multitasks.

My N900 struggles with all of the above (yes even the turning on)

The N900 is either a bad phone, with other features or a really low powered and poorly performing pocket computer.
The X50 is a powerfull device even compared to todays Smartphones. I have an X50v myself.
But to get a Browser that works, you need to spend howmuch? 15 Euro? Mine didnt come with a Wordprocessor that worked, another 15 Euro. Yes, you can BUY software for it. But to get the Software a modern Smartphone has you need to spend a lot of money.
I dondt know the current situation, but the first 3 Years i had it (bought it 2004 or 2005) every pice of software you needed you had to buy. Im not talking about fancy glancy games here, but Word, Browser etc. There was this default-MS browser on it wich couldnt even handle Frames. WTF?

I plug it in and it charges,
Yeah, you got a point there. N900 has some serious issues with charging.

And there is this wide conection ability of the Axim. It has Standart-SD slot and CF slot. No built-in Modem, though. But i carry a Phone together with my N900 anyway, so that doesnt count.

But the exessive Multitasking i do on my N900 would bring my Axim down. Ok, mine is overclocked. But it is seriously faster than the Axim I would say. And the Software the Axim was delivered originally had its issues to. I remember mine having serious trouble with Bluetooth. But maybe i should just invest the Money and update mine to current OS (still runs with this WinCE thingie, i think there was an Update to another Version of Win Mobil) and see how it performs compared to the N900. Especially with things like fast-multitabbed-internet-browsing, wich is one of the Key-qualifications i search in such a device. The N900 has not quite the Power to satisfy me there, but even on my QX9650 with 8GB Ram I sometimes get annoyed because it gets slow on the 'net (slow is defined by "i have to wait after i click"), so maybe i do expect a little bit to much there and should better search my mobile Device some 50 Years in the Future.

Who is it upto to decide what it is the creators or the people?
The Creators decide what it is. The People decide how it performs it the Area it was designed for and maybe how it performs in areas it was not mainly designed for. The NXXX series are Tablets, so thats their main Area. The N900 has built-in Modem wich can be used as a phone. So thats secondary.
N900 has also a good shape & weight to throw it at people, but i think that doesnt count as a function at all.
And it still hasnt a built-in deathray function (or at least noone has unlocked it so far), so the creators obviously didnt want to built a killing device.
Last edited by ChoMar; 2010-11-25 at 13:16.