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by BossingAround 1388 days ago
N900 was awesome, but it wasn't what the masses wanted. It had a lot of quirks, like UI freezing when someone calls you so you couldn't answer the call and suffering from slowing down over a relatively short period of time while being price competitive with the other high end phones.

N900 was a great beta. We never got a 1.0 though.
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toyg 1388 days ago
The 1.0 was the N9. It had excellent reviews. Sadly it was commercially stillborn - Nokia had already publicly switched to Microsoft's bullshit, so it got no commercial push, and nobody wants to buy a dead phone.
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stuaxo 1388 days ago
Such a shame, I really wanted one but couldn't justify it.

Eventually got a Sailfish Jolla.

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panick21_ 1387 days ago
I really wanted the N900 and was ready to buy the next version. But it never came. By the time the N9 arrived it was already clear that it was dead.

Some of the bugs you describe could have been fixed with simple software updates.

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