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voda_jon
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
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Ok thought I would start this as no official thread on this handset and owners is on this forum...
Got mine yesterday and up to now i'm liking it! Its not that big and the 32Gb memory is great of course!
Software wise I think Maemo is a future hit once some kinks are worked out. I have installed Maku, Pidgen Instant Messenger, Bounce, and a couple of other enhancement packages...
Tonight i'm going to try getting Debian to install on some of the 48Gb memory currently available (i stuck my 16Gb micro SD in it!) and see what fun i can have!
Anyone else on here have one and any tips to further enhance it?
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Bonovox
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
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Congrats on your purchase. So its good then? I just read a What Mobile review of it giving it 3 stars 
Phone?? What phone?? |
voda_jon
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from what i've used over the last 2 days it does the job... not had any probs with it though.
i read a load of different reviews and decided to go with it anyway lol. |
AbuBasim
Joined: Nov 04, 2005
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I sold my iPhone 3GS 32GB and bought the N900 with plenty of cash left. So far very happy with the change. The only thing I miss is an Office suite for editing my Word and Excel files: waiting for the release of the free KOffice.
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lemmy31
Joined: Jul 06, 2004
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From: Swadlincote
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Ive got one too John , again very happy with it at present, hence the reason for trying to trade my Milestone (dont need two phones with qwerty keyboard ). I agree with you that some things need to be ironed out, the phone part of the handset does feel as if it is an afterthought at first and takes some getting used to. Apart from that Maemo is very good to use. I would imagine with some Linux knowledge it would be even better 
Regards Craig
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voda_jon
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@lemmy. yeh am lookin at developing some stuff for it. looking at doing a facebook app or widget that lets me update status without goin the main fb site... and possibly a better news reader for the homescreen.
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lemmy31
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From: Swadlincote
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On 2010-01-22 17:37:08, voda_jon wrote:
@lemmy. yeh am lookin at developing some stuff for it. looking at doing a facebook app or widget that lets me update status without goin the main fb site... and possibly a better news reader for the homescreen.
J.
Go for it Jon, developing programs would be far too advanced for my limited knowledge
Regards Craig
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jj03
Joined: Oct 29, 2002
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i saw on gizmodo today that some fella has managed to dual boot the n900, both maemo and android. thats fantastic... |
Bonovox
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I read in What Mobile thread that Nokia are going to work on the phone part and iron out other things. They are aware of it.
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-01-27 16:04 ] Phone?? What phone?? |
voda_jon
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@jj03.... yeh saw that too and its lookin great... full android AND maemo will make this a killer device!!! |
voda_jon
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and this is my desktop... well one page of it... the other 3 pages have web links, contact links and some CPU/MEMORY monitoring apps on it...
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Peio
Joined: Sep 12, 2007
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From: Euskadi
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for those who need an office suite, I recommend installing Easy debian chroot from the extra repository (this is a stable package now), which gives you access to a FULL DEBIAN DISTRIBUTION in 800x600px
The complete open office suite work (slowly, like on my eeepc 900 for example), but if you install "abiword" and "gnumerics" via the synaptic package manager (which is familiar to ubuntu users), you have a complete office suite and desktop experience (since they are exactly the same programs as on a desktop computer)
It's been 3 months now, and I LOVE my N900 |
Bonovox
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
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Ok i just played with a live one of these in a Vodafone store. Its nicer and smaller than i thought. Very very nice product 
Phone?? What phone?? |
voda_jon
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
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i av now had this for a whole week so here is an update on how i am finding the phone!
Well... its fantastic still! i've been trying out different apps and finding some great things to do with the phone!
Since last update i have uninstalled Maku (twitter client) and installed Witter which is much much better. I have installed angry birds game which is brilliant too.
Can i just say as well that using the internet on this device is great! on par if not better than using my iPhone 3G.
I can see myself using this phone for a long time!!!!
And finally i have installed the Maemo.org theme which imho is the nicest looking theme!
J. |
voda_jon
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
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oooh i have found the geekiest memory/processor monitoring program ever created for a mobile phone!!! here is a screenshot from my N900 running Conky.
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Posted: 2010-01-22 16:42
