Nokia N900 coming to Vodafone UK in January 2010
By Vlad Savov 
posted December 15th 2009 6:39AM
posted December 15th 2009 6:39AM
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Wait for the X10 and Milestone. I won't use an iPhone wannabe, with resistive touch screen, small buttons and without good applications and games. Yes, you can see, i don't care in this "phone".
@praetor87
Well, if you're not buying it... gosh, that changes my mind completely.
@praetor87 This phone is not for casual users who want more quantity and less quality apps and games. This is for techy people. The peovious n810 had a USB host mode where you could connect you keyboard, mouse and flash drives etc. This not an iPhone wannabe, it's way more powerful than that and in a different catagory.
@lifenexus: You said it all bro. I still can get my head around the idear of iPhone comparing their "toy car" i.e iphone, with a monster truck, the N900!
@lifenexus If they can sell enough of this, they will not convince the developers. They want reach with N900 the "Joe Six-Pack" users (CEO of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo used this word for average RIM and iPhone users). Why i think it? Find the similarity.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2601/4040098115_ef14c5b986.jpg
http://www.econectados.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone-call.png
This is the GUI, and they choose (almost) same Cortex system.
@praetor87
I can't stop asking myseld " God why are you creating dumb people? Do we really need them?" How can you compare a calculator and a computer. Of course calculator can do the calculation easy and fast with two clicks.
@Trickster0000 Enough poor analogy. God have mistaken with just you. It looks like the truth hurts some people. Next time, we continue.
@praetor87 Oh great not choosing the same processor is a crime. Let me tell you something. Nokia, samsung, lg, basically all phones has arm 11, 6, 9 processors powering their devices for years and in 2007, iphone stole it. That should be like a ban for the iphone then. WIth the 3gs, hang on, palm pre has the cortex, so apple sold the cortex idea too. WIth pc, intel was always there but then apple stole that too rt? You are really dumb. Nokia doesnt have to sell a lot of n900's coz its not for dumb asses like you who do not know what technology is. Learn to appreciate technology. America didnt make the greatest cell phones and wont till a company like apple exits!
So they will have this phone instead of the HTC HD2 cause it won't threaten sales of the iPhone 3GS???
@Wesley
Maybe they'll pull the same HD2 dirty tricks, get a load of pre-orders, sell 100 N900's then pull the plug on them...'except for business'? Vodafone obviously have a cash phobia.
@Rod
lol they wont pull N900. Nokia is no threat to anybody right now
@Yaoooo84
No, that's a fair point! :)
@Yaoooo84
Based on the number of simple Apple-defending and Nokia-hating comments you've posted, you seem to actually be very worried that the Nokia N900 is indeed a big threat to the iPhone.
In my opinion, competition is always only good. Let them come, Android, Maemo, iPhone, BlackBerry, all of them, and may only the best win the consumers' hearts and minds.
Good news for uk!
Wow! Great new. But with Vodafone dropping HD2 just because of threat to the sale of iphone 3GS is a BIG managerial mistake. I rather spend my money on N900 and or the HD2 to and iPhone 3GS.
@Nino yep i agree! been trying to get a hold of the HD2 for a MONTH, sold out with tmobile, apparently its only available in certain o2 stores in the uk and not online and vodafone??? not even going to bother with them, bad experiences in the past. too bad htc hasnt managed to meet the demand for the phone :( hopefully ill get it before Christmas...
@Nino
for every one of you there are hundred of people thats never heard of a HD2 and will buy an Iphone. This is good business move by Vodaphone. If Apple told them to pull HD2 or they cant sell Iphones, I dont think any retailer in the world would hesitate.
@Yaoooo84
Apple can't do that because they will face anti competition charges.
@Gooner14: You are quite right. I think Vodafone should have given we the consumers the right to make a choice, not pulling HD2 of the shelves.
@Proud Japanese
Yeah "Apple can't do that". But another giant named Intel did that and paid a 1.25 billion to AMD.
In business, ethics is only on paper. The fact that HD2 was pulled was very strange. Usually when something is in high demand like the HD2 was from Vodafone and they have stock they can find another way to compensate their customers. Not pulled it off.
I am expecting something similar to happen with N900, it's (imo) way better device than the iPhone and people will show big interest.
I'm sitting here looking at my vodafone n900 I got a week ago.. it released two weeks ago.
Thats good. but how about Australia?????????
As of this point, either the N900 with MAEMO or a nice Android set such as the Milestone is going to be my next phone on Vodafone Aus.
Which one I get depends on what they release and the feature set of the phones (in particular if Vodafone release a phone with GPS navigation that is 100% free for life ala the Droid and google Navigator in the US, I am SOLD on that phone unless its a piece of junk otherwise)
With an outdated and no longer supported OS, I'm not too keen anymore. As we've seen, Nokia isn't developing anymore for Maemo 5 and only has ONE Maemo device for release in 2010... Yea, probably not a wise choice now the hypes blown over... :(
@Almo
Almo, that's just dumb, and you should know it. There is nothing about the Maemo OS that suggests it's "outdated" and/or "no longer supported". With that same analogy, you can say that the iPhone OS is outdated and no longer supported, since there's only ever been three devices that use the OS, they all look the same, and there's only one new iPhone OS device coming next year.
@JoeKay LOL except this ONE device includes about 1/2 of all smartphones in the world...
@Yaoooo84
Wrong, Yaoooo84. Currently, the iPhone has about a 10-15% (depending on who's stats you follow) market share of all smartphones in the world, while Nokia maintains a 35% - 38% market share and RIM has about 20%.
However, my original comment wasn't meant to be taken seriously - it was just in reply to Almo's comment that since there is only one new Maemo device coming out next year, the OS is somehow outdated or "no longer supported". If you go and read Almo's comment, you should be able to understand what I meant quite easily.
@Yaoooo84 Dude you really need a calculator. 1/2 is 50% and if you go out side america, you wont find an iphone in large radius of kilometers. People have not heard of one. SO you 50% seems like an apple fanboy fantasy!
Does this mean that Nokia are going to bring out a new firmware very soon? It's a good phone at the moment but def. needs a bit of work before it gets released en masse to joe public. Lot's of standard phone features missing as standard and many items on the phone are literally just dead ends and unfinished.
Still, shits on an iwhatsy.
I'd prefer this read "Nokia N900 coming to all US carriers , December 25th. Merry Christmas, everyone!"
Already have mine and I'm loving it. Got it SIM free from the flagship store. Insanely powerful and super sweet UI. My iPod touch looks horribly dated in comparison... btw anyone looking to buy an iPod touch? :D
When I went into O2 today and asked about it they told me: "they wont have it as N-Series Nokia phones break too easily...."
yet they are selling an N86....
is it just me......??
@robifis
Haha, break easily. They must use very different nokias than what I am used to.
This is either funny or sad for Vodafone, I mean where's the logic in stocking it for Vodafone Romania but not for the UK?
Are they scared of selling things in a bigger market?
I won't comment on whether the N900 is good or not, because that isn't the point of the story and because whatever I say someone won't like it. :P
Since here in NA this phone is on the T-Mobile's 1700 MHz frequency, does this mean it will have another flavor that runs on 2100 MHz for Europe?
@TheTinRam
Yes, and the European version with 2100 MHz radio for 3G is already out as an unlocked device.
where's APAC release?
Interesting, while looking at my own N900 I realize that of all things the *phone* application is currently the greatest weakness of this smart*phone*. Not whining about missing MMS but an organizable caller list and a displayed phone number from callers stored in the address book is the least I would expect. Let's hope Nokia gets this done soon.
Been using the N900 on Vodafone since fri last week... love it. Ok the 'phone' capabilities are not great - but its OS is actually pretty good, its highly configurable, very powerful, its IM/comms functions are (I think) really well integrated. Its definitely not a mainstream joe public phone but I have to say its damn impressive......