Sunday, September 20, 2009

Waiting for Nokia...

I am waiting to buy a good mobile since a long time now. Got my last one, N97, in 2006. A sturdy phone packed with feature and a large screen. Large by standards at that time.. Used it a lot in India and in US for more than 2 years..
Phones here in US tend to be dumber than in India (my observation only.. no claims on this will be entertained :)).We have a huge choice of better phones in India than in US, maybe because of the technology or the marketing here. For example, you have to be on AT&T if you want to use your iphone (unless you plan to jailbreak)
Coming back to my phones... I am a Nokia person.. Other phones are just not usable.. tech gurus say symbian is slow and not user friendly.. but to me its the best phone OS (ok, i havent used android OS yet..). So, I am waiting for over a year for Nokia to catch up with Apple and release a touch screen phone. It did release one (5800 express edition).. but for me that was a half hearted effort, not the usual feature packed..
I had almost made up my mind to get the iphone or a netbook .. when Nokia announced the N900...
With features that rival netbooks and a whole new OS this phone promises a lot. Multitasking is something that is sorely missing in other smartphones.. A huge memory and a processor that is more powerful than the computer that I bought not so long ago.. A 5 Megapixel camera.. a gps..
no itunes gatekeeping your music and applications..
Connectivity and data sharing should be easy with USB, bluetooth, TV out, integrated FM transmitter..
1 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal memory, Web browsing on a mozilla core browser.. and the OS with a linux core places this little monster firmly on the netbook space..
With whatever is in the media.. I give it 5 stars!!
Waiting to get my hands on this one ...