Using N900 as life phone and work tool for more than 3 days! It's the first 3 days to use it as an entire phone on hand, i just leave my Nokia E71, BB 8310 curve on one side.
Emails:
N900 is amazing and super in communication! Spending much time to find Google apps hosted email tool without good lucky, using the default pop3, smtp setting is too pain, it takes more than 3 days or even more days to get all my emails down, so i just canceled it.
Finally, i found Nokia Messaging service/client inside N900(it's not easy for everyone to list out Nokia Messaging in the E-mail service provider list, but i guess everyone can do this via trying hard rest the phone or input sim card or pull out sim card then again, or reboot the phone, you may find the Nokia Messaging there, be patience, you can get there, it deserves your trying and waiting), now come back to Nokia Messaging, it's similar as BB's push mail method, very nice.
Pro:
- really steady, really quick, sometimes it's quicker than the Google Apps Gmail webmail in PC to get an email (even though when you come from office to home when you not have connections, it may takes some time to establish connection, and trying to access the server then it takes much time, but when connected it's very steady)
- Strait on homescreen with sound, vibration, lighting, pop up window to hint, even though you close it, this is better than Gmail client on E71.
It's amazing as Blackberry's push mail, you can trust me!
Cons(shall not be cons, but the tips i explored for you
):
- You shall get a Nokia Messaging id first, it's not easy to get all the things done when you saw my this article
, you may make all the smtp fields unchecked and blank to send emails. This is the tip! To be detail: you need set this at the Nokia server not yr phone, then in your phone you need input two password, caution in this! then even you do everything right, you may still can not send email, then you may reboot the phone, so everything comes to be OKAY!
- With Nokia Messaging, you can not keep the sent email in the Gmail system, it means you can not track all yr emails in one place, and the Nokia messaging normally can keep 3 days' information, even though you can set up for long time, but the the start point of accessing the email will be slow.
- You can not read the message as thread mode as very famous in Gmail, all the emails line as time line.
- Can not quote Gmail's contacts automatically, when you want send to a new contact. But you can use N900's contacts app, in this section you can email and related the Nokia Messaging - Yr Gmail, Google Email, Yahoo Email... these accounts as automatically flow.
- Not support wap, it's too bad, the only bad point i think of N900, it means you can not access some Chinese Bank site with phone.
Still, i can use the webmail even chat in the Gmail web page. So in the webmail, i can do anything as in PC though it's not so smooth as in PC(still, it's very smooth
). I use Google Apps hosted Gmail webmail on N900 when i want to send a group email or search my emails.
So use N900, i can do even better than in my E71's email system with original Google gmail client.
Battery, one day 24 hours consuming 70%:
- 20 sms
- 5-7 calls, 20 minutes in all
- receiving more than 300 emails with sound and vibration on
- write 10 emails
- 30 minutes' MP3 with wifi to access online Google Music China [the super function i find on N900, no phones can do this! The same function as watch Youtube, but normally the phones can watch youtube, cuz the client is mobilized or optimized]
How do you value this? i think it's pretty nice and cool!
In all, N900 is still super and rocking! The Review II is the most important part of my decision whether to use a phone. And in a word: N900 is my 30 hours mobility notebook and phone
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