Comments on: The Comprehensive Beginners Guide To The N900

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:46:12 +0000

Great phone I had one of those about a year ago. Nokia is my favorite brand.

By: Ahmed Yehia

Ahmed Yehia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:12:32 +0000

Hi every one,
I have a couple of Questions, If there any one would help me,
1: How can I Assign a ring tone to a contact?
2: How can I creat a playlist of my own?
3: How can I start a video call with a contact?
It was so much easier on symbian
Thank You

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:56:37 +0000

Iḿ amazed about all the cheers regarding the N900. Ovi doesn work anymore, itś impossible to insert a symple birthday. Delete multimple data. the spreadsheet app doesńt work etc etc.
symply put its a phone with a browser. for me that sucks. back to the E90
since Nokia doesn offer any help

By: Maximus

Maximus — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:52:55 +0000

This was very helpful!!!

3 Questions though:

How do you personalize ringtones for your contacts?

How do I make contact groups?

And, I understant that skype is already intergrated on the phone. How do i get a skype account with out downloading the software? most of my family overseas just got it, so I am very please at the idea of not paying extra charges for long distance phone calls if i could just use this feature.

By: mally

mally — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:29:38 +0000

To set up Hotmail, make sure you select Nokia Messaging first, then it will only ask for your eMail address and password. Entering the Pop3 details didn’t work for me either. Hope this helps.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:49:41 +0000

I have been trying to set up my hotmail account, which all the posts say is easy! I’m using the correct pop3 and smtp servers. Using 25 as the smtp port. Still can’t get it to work. Anyone else tried and succeeded please?

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:43:13 +0000

Hey, unfortunately I haven’t come across such an app/method yet. But will keep an eye out for it!

By: SanjMak

SanjMak — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:47:04 +0000

Great Information Vaibav, Many thanks for sharing.

Is there any way I can create a password that will ‘lock’ the conversations so only I can access by inputting a password.

The reason for this is that as its a new phone everyone wants to have a look and touch & feel it but I dont want everyone who holds the phone to read the IM’s and SMS’s.

Please advise how this can be achieved if you know.

Regards,

SanjMak.

By: Andi

Andi — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:04:47 +0000

hewow! how do you personalized ur contacts ringtone? I don’t see it! Please advice!

By: N900 - New Users Hints & Tips

N900 - New Users Hints & Tips — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:17:13 +0000

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By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:48:08 +0000

Its not a webcam icon but an icon for enable screencasts. However screencasts don’t actually work.

By: Kaleel

Kaleel — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:42:27 +0000

Could you tell me in the above second image showing webcam, how it is showing,

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:55:34 +0000

Thanks – had worked most of these out after a week or so but still picked up a couple of new tips.

The main one that confused me that you didn’t mention is to swipe from the left in the web browser, if you want to do something like scroll Google maps or select text on the screen. If you don’t, you are just scrolling round the browser window locally, so to speak.

Rgrds

Peter

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:49:00 +0000

Thank you for the kind words Jon!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:35:49 +0000

Thank you very much for this .
We just got our Nokia N900 about 2 days ago.
It is very different than Symbian 3rd or 5th.
Maemo5/6 is definitely the future, so thank you so much for showing us “the way” with your article.

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:50:59 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, fixed the typo!

By: kwotski

kwotski — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Just had to mention: “When in the portrait mode with the keyboard closed you can simply turn the phone vertical”

if you’re in portrait mode it is already vertical, no? ITYM “landscape mode”.

Thanks for the collection of info – makes a good start!