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My n900 can handle google wave (albeit very slowly, barely function). I wonder how many other mobiles can do that…

Why are sites like http://bit.ly/9cVMEY allowed to exist these days? I wonder if they get customers (totally SFW, but you may cry inside).

It’s all very well the n900 shipping with a link to download a trial of viewers for Excel, Word and Powerpoint files. It’s nice to see Nokia making the effort. The problems are that, while they do a very good job of rendering the files, they only do it for free for a month, and you can’t actually change the files.

What they don’t tell you is that since the days of the n900 and perhaps before, it’s been possible to work with some Office documents, including quite sophisticated editing of said documents.

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Nice to see #Symbian becoming the first truly open mobile platform. Hopefully developers will be able to get it some good press now…

The n900 is a geek’s dream phone, there’s no doubt about that. I had a n800 before, so it’s not surprising that within the first week of having my new gadget I’ve started to try to recreate some of the tricks I used to play with. Previously I was just experimenting, whereas this time I’m trying to bring more convenience into my life…

So, my first trick (after playing with installing a load of software from the application catalogues and a few things from Ovi Store) was to get set up so that I could do things with my phone from my PC without letting go of my keyboard and mouse. On my previous Nokia phones, I had some success with RemoteS60 once upon a time (though it always seemed a bit unreliable) to view and interact with my phone’s screen, but that wasn’t free to use. Nokia’s PC Suite (and Ovi Suite) software offered a range of features for working with contacts, calendars, text messages and generally moving content to and fro, but none of that is readily available for the N900…

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Well, it’s something of the of an era for me, or at least a hiatus of said era. I’ve had a Symbian phone since I got my Nokia 9210 Communicator around 2001, and I was using the OS before that back in the days of my Psion Series 5. As of yesterday, my main handset stopped being one that runs Symbian, as my N97 found itself replaced by a Nokia N900 running Nokia’s Linux-based system, Maemo 5.

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Just saw a first picture of the #iPad. I don’t like it. Borders around screen are too big. iPhone novelty is gone. Doesn’t seem that shiny.

It’s Upgrade Time for me, and while I find myself quite happy with my Nokia N97, that doesn’t mean I want to pass up the opportunity to get my hands on a shiny piece of new hardware. After all, the sooner I upgrade, the sooner I can do it again next time around – and Symbian^4, Maemo 6, the next Android and iPhone and who knows what else should be out by then.

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The phone geek in me is at a loss. Upgrade time, and no phone I want is available on O2, but I don’t want to lose the perks I have with O2

I won’t pretend to know how each of these devices perform in reality – development teams count for a lot with a modern mobile device. Factors like the maturity of the operating system, the user interface, the availability of third party software, and so on can make or break any device regardless of how good its hardware is.

Regardless, I was keen to put the stats of these four devices side by side for my reference at least. In cases where items could be compared to some extent, I’ve highlighted the perceptual ’best’ and ‘worst’ entries in a light green and pinky red respectively (I’ve not declared a winner for the display row as I can’t find details of the Nexus One’s colour count and I’d argue that the N900’s higher pixel density counts in its favour over the Nexus One’s bigger display. The processors can probably fall under some debate due to extra GPU power that I’ve not considered, or the different multi-chip ARM hardware is used in different devices).

*Wifi positioning available via 3rd party product

I should note that while the table suggests that the N900 and Nexus One have a similar number of plus points compared to the other devices, it’s worth comparing the text in green to the text in grey – some devices only just have the edge over others, and others are still highly spec’ed enough for most people (after all, who is really going to see benefit from a device supporting 802.11n wireless when others can manage 802.11g).

The amount of red in certain columns certainly is interesting though. Some may accuse me of bias – when I created the table I was certainly not looking for bias, and I’m happy to add other rows if I’m provided accurate data for all four devices.