Anyone have a Nokia N900?

[James Knott]

Giles Orr wrote:
> On 5 December 2010 22:46, teddy mills<teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>    
>> I am leaning towards the Nokia N900.
>>
>> It is not available in Canada, but it can be shipped from US.
>> There are a few cell phone companies in Toronto that import the N900.
>>
>> Anyone on TLUG have an N900?
>> Simcard and it works with (Bell/Telus/Wind/Moblicity/Fido/ I believe)
>>
>> I figure if I am spending 500, I may as well get the phone I want.
>> My second choice is Google Nexus One.
>>
>> It would still have some resale value after 2 years. (not much though)
>>      
> I agree with the idea, but my I think my previous post (edited version
> below correcting the error in provider name ...) still applies:
>
>       -----
>
> And as a head's up to the person who was going to buy a phone separate
> from the phone plan: most of the time this is fine but a good friend
> of mine had an Android phone he'd ordered from the States that was
> evidently eating SIM cards.  Wind was decent about it and supplied him
> with three or four(!) new SIM cards, but both the phone supplier and
> Wind claimed the other was at fault.  After a couple weeks of hell he
> returned the phone for a refund and went with a Wind-provided phone
> (admittedly not quite as good a phone).  If the phone is provided by
> the same people who sell the plan, the provider _will_ fix the problem
> because the problem is clearly theirs.  But if you have separate
> providers, it's far too easy to shift the blame.
>
>    
I have a Nexus One and it works fine.  I don't think it's even nibbled 
on the SIM.  I'm on Rogers.

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