Yep, Hoss,
just chewing the cud on my way back to the ranchhouse.
Throw the numbers on the barn door and see what sticks,
leaving the nitty-gritty for those who have the proper knowledge.

As for Maemo, simply adjust downward accordingly
as necessary.

We can hack the n900 surely, (I just started somewhere is all)
but does it come pre-hacked like the latest Android or Tizen ?
Those things come out of the giftwrapped box
stuffed like Thanksgiving turkey with more holes than Swiss cheese.

I am no expert in this,
(hoping a genuine expert steps up to do the dirty work)
but I have brief experience+ exposure to Android and iPhone.
I use an Android as a dummy modem,
but am retasking my Ubuntu to do that as it is such a stupid device.

Using Android is like
carrying around a set of crosshairs on your back,
but the Ubuntu is not vastly better (having few bad habits on GSM).
Maemo is completely under the radar however.
The providers don't hack it because it is so out of spectrum.
I have even gotten some very curious approaches by staff
about using it here.

I have already been tagged by certain people and gotten
a couple of services blocked in one region for using Ubuntu.
They named a server after my email address in a different locale,
which was funny/cute (different story altogether),
but there they did not exhibit the raw hostility I see these days.
The kinds of backflip handstands (like blocking github ?!?!)
we see here every week is enough to generate some concern.

Tizen may be more secure on the local side (guessing again)
whereas Android may be gelded by the local Google servers,
which are in the hands of entities I shall not talk about here.

But what can someone else kick into this anecdote bonfire ?

If anyone else is interested
maybe we should trot this colt over to a new thread?

cheers,
from what seems to be slowly morphing into
"one of the most unpleasant films of the year"