N900

phil128 · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:04

Some guy is selling an N900 phone for 230 GBP. It's in excellent condition too, has no marks or scratches on it, plus the keyboard is excellent. Comes with the original box too (with unused earphones, and TV cable).

Is 230 worth it?

Thanks

supafly · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:27

There was a time you could buy it for £255 from cpw.

phil128 · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:34

supafly said:
There was a time you could buy it for £255 from cpw.

Contract or Pay-as-you-go? Its on an "well know auction site". I dunno if I might buy it as they're really powerfull, plus it runs Linux :-D

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Robbo · 3 Jul 2011 at 22:33

The N900 is pretty rubbish really.

sarge78 · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:03

phil128 said:
Contract or Pay-as-you-go? Its on an "well know auction site". I dunno if I might buy it as they're really powerfull, plus it runs Linux .

They were powerful in 2009

Grab a new £250 HTC Desire Z and overclock the nuts off it (2GHz if your lucky)

phil128 · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:04

Robbo said:
The N900 is pretty rubbish really.

How come?

Its the best smartphone I've seen that allows you to really program it. Native Linux on a phone is bloody good. Plus, I've heard its has a fully multitask OS (pre-emptive) unlike the IPhone, and other smartphones.

I'll look into it more, as I wanna do some programming for it.

phil128 · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:05

sarge78 said:
They were powerful in 2009

Grab a new £250 HTC Desire Z and overclock the nuts off it (2GHz if your lucky)

Ya can overclock the N900 too.

Caseh · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:10

phil128 said:
Some guy is selling an N900 phone for 230 GBP. It's in excellent condition too, has no marks or scratches on it, plus the keyboard is excellent. Comes with the original box too (with unused earphones, and TV cable).

Is 230 worth it?

Thanks

I absolutely love the phone, and really wish I didn't sell it, but there is no way on this earth I would pay that for it.

I bought mine in perfect condition mid last year for £175. There is no way it's worth that now, never mind more than that!

Robbo · 4 Jul 2011 at 07:25

phil128 said:
How come?

Its the best smartphone I've seen that allows you to really program it. Native Linux on a phone is bloody good. Plus, I've heard its has a fully multitask OS (pre-emptive) unlike the IPhone, and other smartphones.

I'll look into it more, as I wanna do some programming for it.

Programming as in apps? There are only a few hundred apps for the platform and only a handful of those are useful to the majority of people.

[TW]Fox · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:16

Robbo said:
Programming as in apps?

No, programming as in.. programming. Not the installation of existing apps :confused:

Robbo · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:20

I thought he might have meant developing apps for it... it's quite popular you know?

Tunney · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:24

Why would the number of existing apps matter if he wants to develop his own? :confused:

Robbo · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:26

Because the amount of people using Maemo is very small therefore any apps he made wouldn't ever become that profitable.

If he meant programming the phone for Linux-based things then that makes more sense, thus why I was asking him a question

feedtheram · 4 Jul 2011 at 14:02

Its a great phone and sounds like the one for you based on your needs. I would have thought you could have gotten it cheaper than that though.

Check out http://talk.maemo.org/ for additional info (you have probably already been there)

Myshra · 4 Jul 2011 at 14:25

You should be able to get it for cheaper than that although their rarity might become a problem as time goes on and more get consigned to the draw / bin.

chaparral · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:14

phil128 said:
Some guy is selling an N900 phone for 230 GBP. It's in excellent condition too, has no marks or scratches on it, plus the keyboard is excellent. Comes with the original box too (with unused earphones, and TV cable).

Is 230 worth it?

Thanks

The Selling price for an N900 on ebay seems to be around £130

Sho · 5 Jul 2011 at 00:36

Use the money on something else.

DIABLO · 5 Jul 2011 at 00:54

It's an ancient phone (in phone terms) with a dead operating system, why would you waste your money on the phone and time on apps no one is going to use.

Tunney · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:15

Some people (me included) like writing apps for their own use.