
Après Mobile review la semaine dernière, c’est au tour de My-Symbian de faire une très longue preview du N900 & de Maemo 5.
Cette preview très complète permet de voir chaque composant et logiciel intégré dans le N900.
Pour ceux qui sont pressés d’avoir les conclusions (en anglais) :
What’s hot:
- VERY high performance: powerful OMAP3430 processor, hardware gfx and video acceleration, lots of operating memory
- rock stable
- great, high quality WVGA screen (I wouldn’t mind it being capacitive, but it’s responsive enough for it not to be an issue)
- fully functional as a mobile phone, well integrated with the rest of the system
- all connectivity options one could think of
- fast and stable 3G/HSDPA connectivity
- great, fully integrated support for VoIP, e.g. Skype
- BEAUTIFUL user interface, powerful, intuitive, easy to use
- advanced home screen: four separate desktops, support for widgets, fully customizable
- both stylus and finger friendly control
- Calendar, Contacts, Office suite finally present on Maemo (compared to previous Tablets) and more advanced than on S60 phones
- GPS receiver is very fast and sensitive, much faster than on S60 phones (except for the Omnia HD)
- high quality camera and video recording
- hardware keyboard
- good and fast web browser, compatible with virtually all websites I tested it with, fully supporting Flash (and all kinds of Flash videos), Ajax, Javascript, etc.
- fantastic video playback, crisp and smooth.
What’s not: (maybe just on the tested prototype?)
- no handwriting recognition
- storage memory for installable applications limited to ridiculous 256 MB, all the remaining gigabytes available for documents and data files only
- lack of d-pad (it’s an Nseries device, so some people would like to play games on it!)
- the keyboard is nice, but could be even better (to attract Communicator users)
- the display seems to be easily scratchable; screen protector or carrying case are recommended to protect it
- lens cover does not scratch the lens (like on the N97) but it does scratch the part of the casing it slides over
- since the memory card is hot swappable, why there’s no access to it from the outside?
- some sort of hardware « Home » button quickly switching to the Desktop would be really useful
- no audio equalizer
- Nokia, PLEASE, add voice dialing!
- no Java support, even just Java MIDP
- very limited support for Profiles, only « General » and « Silent », no possibility to create own profiles, no timed Profiles, etc.
- the touch display « de-calibrating » from time to time on the tested unit, probably due to early, pre-release firmware.
- no MMS support.
What hasn’t been tested on the current proto and will be updated when I get hold of a newer firmware:
- synchronization
- voice navigation
- Bluetooth
- FM transmitter
- power consumption / battery life
- FM radio (if it’s there, which is unclear).
Pour les autres, je vous invite à lire cette preview directement sur My-Symbian en suivant ce lien.



Auteur: Bassim Filali (3 Articles)
Bassim FILALI est sur SymbianFrance dès l’été 2008 (sous son pseudo dans un premier temps : Tareeq7 puis sous son vrai nom) et a tout naturellement rejoint MaemoFrance dès sa création fin Aout 2009. Présent dans la communauté des sites dédiés à la mobilité, notamment en administrant le Forum du 5800 XpressMusic de Baptiste et le forum MaemoFrance, il rédige les news, aide et corrige certains tests, assiste les utilisateurs, lance des initiatives & participe aux grands salons consacré à la mobilité. Un vrai passionné de mobilité! Le suivre sur twitter : http://twitter.com/BassimFILALI