So, as you all probably know by now, I’ve been very impatiently awaiting the arrival of my Nokia N900 that I ordered from Newegg on 11/4/09. Well, yesterday, Tuesday, December 9th at 1019 hours, it finally arrived! Yes, that’s right, it finally got here. So first, here are some pictures from the unboxing:
1) Here’s the Newegg box as it came:
2) Here’s the Nokia box from the inside! YAY!
3) Here’s what was in the inside of the Nokia box:
4) And a close-up of the phone in the box:
5) And the accessories in the box under the phone:
6) Here’s everything that was in the box:
7) Here’s just the phone out of the box, on the desk after I’ve customized a bit:
Here’s a better shot of the phone on the desk (coincidentally in my lego dock I made):
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9) And one more pic of it in my dock:
There you have it, the full unboxing of my phone. Nothing too interesting. No video, all the unboxing videos would be the same, so if you want to see one, just search youtube.
First Impression:
This is much more than just a phone. It really is an internet tablet/mobile computer with a phone put on top. You can tell just by the way it all handles. It runs it’s own flavor of Linux, Maemo, which is really nice. To the normal user, you won’t notice the fact that it’s a linux OS. The UI is very easy to adapt to, and everything is very easy on the eyes. The screen is very crisp and clear, it’s nice and precise. It’s not a strain to look at, and leaves the user with a good bit of control over it as well. The phone has plenty of horsepower to run anything and everything. I’ve not stressed it much yet, as I haven’t found a lot that I want to push on it, but every feature I’ve tried, Ovi Maps, the phone, Conversations, Browser, Camera, sharing, etc, has all been very well done. I don’t have any complaint at all with it yet.
One thing that most people wouldn’t even really think of with their phones, unless they are a true geek, is the fact that this phone can multitask better than any other phone out there. I can have a phone call going, Conversations text convo and IM convo, Facebook open in a browser, Email open with my gmail account, and switch between then flawlessly without issues. Plenty of room, plenty of power, and well thought out is a good way to sum up the phone. I can’t say much for battery life yet, but from what I can tell, I should be able to easily get a solid 12 hours out of this phone without issue. I unplugged it this morning at 8AM and I’ve used it pretty solidly throughout the day and its still got a fair amount of battery left.
So far, this phone is amazing. I’m very pleased. Nokia seems to have put in a lot of effort into making this a very easy to use, yet very powerful device, and I believe they’ve completely succeeded without fail. Now it’s still early in the life of the N900, and I would like to see MMS support, but from the reports I’ve read, this should be available soon. Once that is available and a few of the minor bugs are worked out, this phone will be perfect.
Well, that’s my post for now.
TTFN
-Michael