Nokia N900

[Stephen]

That's because American cell companies won't sell a phone that has
been locked into crappyness for some reason

If ever anyone does the unlocked phone freindly network they are going
to have a boggleinh influx of tech users


On 9/25/09, huertanix at gmail.com <huertanix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually it was last month. :P I said I wanted one to make iPhone users
> jealous of my flash playback. Alas, there's no sign of when if at all it
> will be available stateside. :(
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: storkus at storkus.com
>
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:46:03
> To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Nokia N900
>
>
> I'm very surprised no one has brought this device up for discussion yet!
>  It would appear to blow away the current Android and OpenMoko devices
> by packing a 600 MHz ARM proc, 256MB DRAM, a huge wad of flash, 802.11bg
> AND bluetooth, and--biggest of all--quad-band GSM AND a 3G radio
> compatible with T-Mobile USA.  It also has USB2 and, curiously (I don't
> know exactly what it is) "TV-Out".  On the software side, it runs their
> distro called Maemo which, GUI-wise, has Qt at the core, though you can
> still run GTK apps like its predecessor the N810.  It's almost entirely
> free software and hackable, one of the biggest ones that aren't is
> macromedia flash being included (presumably so you can play Youtube
> video--I couldn't see playing flash games on an ARM...).
>
> The way I (and a lot of others) see it, this is like the early OLPC's or
> eeepc's in terms of horsepower and (somewhat) memory.  More than one
> person out there has suggested it could be used as a sort of hand-held
> file server.  The geek in me is going even more nuts over buying this
> than the Sheevaplug since I could obviously do so much more with it.
> The few reviewers that have gotten their hands on it so far were mostly
> morons that obviously couldn't fathom the potential that could be
> unlocked from it.  For instance, the keyboard gets griped at a lot.  So?
>  Get one of those roll-up USB keyboards from Thinkgeek: since it's a
> lightweight distro (Busybox was explicitly mentioned) and (hopefully
> full) kernel in there, I would presume that USBHID hasn't been neutered.
>
> So what do you all think?  My current phone (a Motorola V3xx) is still
> working ok, and the N900 is nowhere near cheap...but, damn, it's making
> me drool!  Should I get it or not?  Are one of you planning on it?
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. Another thing not discussed here: Slackware-13's out. :)
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