Nokia N900 is Amazon’s Most Popular Gift Phone of 2010

December 30th, 2010 • Mark Guim • 27 comments

Amazon.com today released its “Best of 2010″ lists, which include the bestselling, most-wished-for and favorite gift products as determined by Amazon.com customers in 2010. The Nokia N900 was the most frequently purchased as gifts in the wireless category! Yay for Nokia and Maemo!

Nokia N900

The Nokia N900 started shipping in the US last November. The data from these lists came from January 1st, 2010 to December 15th, 2010. When I reviewed the N900, I liked its web browser and camera. The lack of polished apps and the introduction of newer, slimmer devices made me stop using it though. Do you still have your Nokia N900? How many of you got it as gifts from Amazon?

Anonymous

I used Nokia N900
I think N900 is the best
- Ivan4879
  
  Yes I do. This phone came handy for the past couple of days i’ve had the nephews and nieces play super mario with the ps3 controller, while copying movies to the ps3.
rad

My N900 is awesome. It’s a pity nokia just released it and moved on to “greater things”. Maemo 5 has what it takes to be an excellent platform, ahead of everyone else and Nokia could have used it for more devices, instead of going back to Symbian as it did with the N8.

Just yesterday I saw “video chat in skype for iphone” and went yawn…
rad

My N900 is awesome. It’s a pity nokia just released it and moved on to “greater things”. Maemo 5 has what it takes to be an excellent platform, ahead of everyone else and Nokia could have used it for more devices, instead of going back to Symbian as it did with the N8.

Just yesterday I saw “video chat in skype for iphone” and went yawn…
- bluejacker
  
  I agree, Maemo5 had a LOT of potential (imho the best multitasking in a mobile OS). With the right support from Nokia (more Updates, more devices) it could have been a lot more successful. I hope MeeGo is worth the time and effort (and that Nokia/Intel don’t destroy the Maemo UI completely)
Jimsm55

hell yeah use it everyday as a phone, gps, web browsing and much more simple the best phone eveeeeeer
http://bashvi.tumblr.com Bash Vi

I got my N900 this summer even though it was already outdated by other phones at that time and I’m still using it, because I love the absolute power over the device I get by being root and getting a terminal.
And of course because I love the openness of Maemo.
AuRoN

Too bad nokia totally forgot it
Graybip

I have 3 phones: E71, N8 and N900. I change what I carry with me, depending on what I want for text entry and web browsing. Love the N900!
http://twitter.com/Smartfonefan laurencedoherty

Yep had the N900 since it first came out. Still use it everyday for pretty much everything from email twitter browsing music films camera video reading books fm transmitter skype….you know pretty much the lot oh and the odd phonecall.

What a great OS maemo is….
http://twitter.com/Smartfonefan laurencedoherty

Yep had the N900 since it first came out. Still use it everyday for pretty much everything from email twitter browsing music films camera video reading books fm transmitter skype….you know pretty much the lot oh and the odd phonecall.

What a great OS maemo is….
http://www.youtube.com/jeromeo1980 Jeromeo

I was so EXCITED when I ordered my N900 in November 2010; I was so DISAPPOINTED when Nokia and the Maemo community completely dropped support of the N900 in June 2010…
A perfect example of Nokia–build a product and stop caring about it a few months later.
iApple and Android will put you out of business…
- Anonymous
  
  but you can install Meego already in the phone
- Gamgigo
  
  Apple is terrible at support too; signal problems on the iPhone 4, Steve jobs is very helpfull saying “Just avoid holding it in that position”. Apple suck at customer support. The iPhone 3g can’t have a custom background in iOS 4, Apple say its because of the hardware. It isn’t, they just want you to buy a new one. Although they give you updates, Id prefer it if they didn’t, they just make the phone use yet more battery, make it yet slower, and crash yet more often. If people want iPhone’s, go and waste your money in a phone locked into apples dismal closed OS, with only one programming language and no freedom. Aswell as no true multitasking, even on the iPhone 4 there isnt real multitasking. On the contrary the n900 has support for vast number of programming languages out of the box (including Adobe Flash), and yet more availible. It has complete freedom and X term for complete control. While Android is closer to this than iOS it doesn’t have X term and only very recently got flash. Although that is just my opinion. The n900 and Maemo wont appeal to everyone. Some people will (for reasons unknown to me) prefer iOS.
  
  My point is why update something that has no need to be updated? Maemo 5 is a completely capable OS. Unlike iOS that is littered with annoyances and faults. Android is alright but lacks the freedom of Maemo. Nokia will prevail.
  - sygys
    
    n900′s phone function suck balls big time! the n900 was never built to support phone functions at all. i love my n900 but nokia should really start fixing stuff that is not working!
    
    You need to wait atleast 10 seconds to pick up a phonecall before the n900 becomes responsive…and hang up same thing.
    
    Also the alarm is a pain. sometimes im unable to shut it down. most of the time after i hit stop alarm it plays for atleast 5 more seconds.
    
    These things need to be fixed, but yet are ignored by nokia
    - Junk
      
      I have none of the problems you are talking about, my N900 is very responsive. Maybe you should consider investigating which software (probably from extras-devel?) is causing the problems or set up the phone completeley new…
- http://twitter.com/TinaHolmboe Tina Holmboe
  
  Nokia dropped support in June 2010? And THEN, somehow, they released PR1.3 in -October- 2010? The Maemo community dropped support in June 2010? I installed a new, promising-looking, task manager today. That’s January 2011.
  
  The N900 has flaws like everything else. Please don’t make up new ones.
kulicuu

n900 is the cheeitah. i would like to consult with the design team for a successor device. by successor device i don’t mean groundbreaking but rather incremental improvements. it would be pretty easy, as the thing is already very near perfect: essentially they could get away with:
a) put a newer processor and more RAM in (maybe the snapdragon i’ve heard about)
b) improve the usb connector hardware design
c) make battery access through a door and spring loaded (much like on the canon powershot g11) (i carry a spare battery in my wallet but don’t especially enjoy the surgically delicate process of removing the back plate and so on a couple times a day.
http://twitter.com/TinaHolmboe Tina Holmboe

Yep, still got it. So far there’s nothing else on the market that comes close to the functionality I want from a mobile computer / smartphone.

Bit sad, really, but hey-ho. A market more tuned to “lookin’ good” than “working” is what we’ve got to live with.
Droidberg

I still use it, overclocked to 1 ghz it still beats most of the smarties on the market.
OsirisRa

Still have my N900 and going to purchase a new one just in case something horrific happens to my original N900.
Sven

I have N900 with me all the time and I love it
http://twitter.com/hahkijo Jouko Hahkio

Gosh! Didn’t believe, even I have one…
Morten

Still have my N900 … and I see no reason for replacing it any time soon …
sygys

i do use it very often and i bought it myself from a store.
http://worldtouristdestination.com/author/electronicsky/ electronic sky

Time can change most of things.
http://twitter.com/_4dri4n_ Adrian

i still have the N900…still use it….might change it for an android system…waiting for meego….hoping for more decent support from ovi…. and yeah a decent application for facebook would really help!!!

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