Hi peeps, nice forum you seem to have over here.
This is my first post here so i'll bore you with a tiny bit of background.
I'm a bit of a phone geek and I never seem to be able to hold on to the same phone for very long before I just have to have the next big thing. I hope i'm not doomed to this behaviour forever as it gets expensive, I always intend that my new phone will be with me a long time, it just never really happens.
I started this craze when the T-Mob G1 hit the stores, I couldn't resist the pull of this funky new Android OS, so I treated myself. Loved the OS of that phone, hated the battery, hated the handset in general - just never felt safe with that whole slidy out mechanism thing.
Next came a nokia N79. I told myself that I didn't need an all singing and dancing device like a G1 just wanted a solid phone with 3G and Wifi. Anyway, ended up breaking the screen with a dodgy car charger, so had to go out and buy a nokia 5800 as an immediate replacement.
I loved that little 5800, but I just started to feel that it was no iphone when I was seeing so many of those damn things around, guess what happened next? yep, sold the 5800 and bought an iphone 3GS.
What that thing does blew me away, never seen (touched) a touch screen like it, but, I grew tired of the restricions and limitations, oh and the nokia N900 was on the horizon, so I fell out of love with my iphone
Enter my current device, Nokia N900. I've been thoroughly impressed with this one, or at least it's amazing web browser, if i'm honest, the rest of the phone is too rough around the edges, there are no apps, wifi is very dodgy, and i've never really been a fan of those hardware QWERTY keyboards.
My facination is now lying with this nexus one, I ordered one from Google late last night, I guess the wheels wont start rolling until Monday morning in California....
Anyway, my few questions are:
1: how long does it take to get here (UK) from USA?
2: Google talk: - on my N900 I can stay signed on 100% of the time, and if someone sends me a message I get a notification much like a text, how does this work on the N1?
3: Google maps: does the map rotate depending on what direction you are travelling in like on the iphone 3GS? like with the digital compass? that would be awesome
4: Supposedly you can write a text message / IM via voice controls, is that right? how does that work out in the real world? useful? easy?
5: Are there any problems with WIFI? this is a big factor in me wanting to sell my N900, it seriously drains the power, far more than does 3G - even when you are no longer connected to the wifi, unless you reboot, power consuption is crazy. Also, my N900 wont load google mail when on WIFI - WTF is that? does it fine on gprs / 3G but not on wifi. Hopefully there is no strange issues like this on the N1 - oh, and does it just join the wifi automatically like my G1 and iphone did?
Thanks, and sorry for the long one
This is my first post here so i'll bore you with a tiny bit of background.
I'm a bit of a phone geek and I never seem to be able to hold on to the same phone for very long before I just have to have the next big thing. I hope i'm not doomed to this behaviour forever as it gets expensive, I always intend that my new phone will be with me a long time, it just never really happens.
I started this craze when the T-Mob G1 hit the stores, I couldn't resist the pull of this funky new Android OS, so I treated myself. Loved the OS of that phone, hated the battery, hated the handset in general - just never felt safe with that whole slidy out mechanism thing.
Next came a nokia N79. I told myself that I didn't need an all singing and dancing device like a G1 just wanted a solid phone with 3G and Wifi. Anyway, ended up breaking the screen with a dodgy car charger, so had to go out and buy a nokia 5800 as an immediate replacement.
I loved that little 5800, but I just started to feel that it was no iphone when I was seeing so many of those damn things around, guess what happened next? yep, sold the 5800 and bought an iphone 3GS.
What that thing does blew me away, never seen (touched) a touch screen like it, but, I grew tired of the restricions and limitations, oh and the nokia N900 was on the horizon, so I fell out of love with my iphone
Enter my current device, Nokia N900. I've been thoroughly impressed with this one, or at least it's amazing web browser, if i'm honest, the rest of the phone is too rough around the edges, there are no apps, wifi is very dodgy, and i've never really been a fan of those hardware QWERTY keyboards.
My facination is now lying with this nexus one, I ordered one from Google late last night, I guess the wheels wont start rolling until Monday morning in California....
Anyway, my few questions are:
1: how long does it take to get here (UK) from USA?
2: Google talk: - on my N900 I can stay signed on 100% of the time, and if someone sends me a message I get a notification much like a text, how does this work on the N1?
3: Google maps: does the map rotate depending on what direction you are travelling in like on the iphone 3GS? like with the digital compass? that would be awesome
4: Supposedly you can write a text message / IM via voice controls, is that right? how does that work out in the real world? useful? easy?
5: Are there any problems with WIFI? this is a big factor in me wanting to sell my N900, it seriously drains the power, far more than does 3G - even when you are no longer connected to the wifi, unless you reboot, power consuption is crazy. Also, my N900 wont load google mail when on WIFI - WTF is that? does it fine on gprs / 3G but not on wifi. Hopefully there is no strange issues like this on the N1 - oh, and does it just join the wifi automatically like my G1 and iphone did?
Thanks, and sorry for the long one
but what I mean is (hard to explain) but on the iphone (if any of you have used one?) it uses the devices digital compass to work out which way you are facing.
