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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by geneven
Nah, you misinterpreted what I wrote and drew your own conclusions based on that.
You implied that with the iPhone you had to pinch to zoom, and I believed you. The correction, that you can double-tap to zoom, was important to keep me from being mislead.
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Originally Posted by slha89
Congratulations! You've been duped by the flash card industry into believing SDXC is a compatibility-breaking release requiring additional hardware support.
If I can't get N900 cheaper than 699,-, I'll wait for "N910" to have SDXC card support and Maemo 6.
It's like buying now a notebook without Express Card to upgrade to USB 3.0. I can't replace every year a phone and a notebook to sell it for half the price, because I need more space and/or faster ports.
With USB 3.0 und SDXC at the door, it's imho a bad time to buy something without this items. Look back SD -> SDHC and USB 1.1 -> 2.0
The truth is, every Linux device that currently supports SDHC also support SDXC without issue. That is, of course, assuming you're using a reasonable filesystem like ext3 (as opposed to exFAT). The SDHC spec was artificially limited to 32GB by restricting the address space to only 16 of the 22 bits available.*
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Thankfully, Linux ignores this artificial limit and has long been capable of addressing all 22 bits. What this means, is that the only encumbrance to using proper SDXC cards in current and future tablet devices (or, in fact, any current Linux device with SDHC support) is support for exFAT read/write. Which is on its way and only a software install away once provided.For the new SDHC high capacity card (2.0) implementation, 22 bits of the identification string are used to indicate the memory size in increments of 512 KBytes. Currently 16 of the 22 bits are allowed to be used, giving a maximum size of 32 GB. All SDHC 4-GB and larger cards must be 2.0 implementations. Two bits that were previously reserved and fixed at 0 are now used for identifying the type of card, 0=standard, 1=HC, 2=reserved, 3=reserved. Non-HC devices are not programmed to read this code and therefore cannot correctly read the identification of the card.
So, no, there are no issues whatsoever with buying an SDHC-supporting Linux device now and using SDXC later. No more FUD, please.
*Which, of course, is because FAT becomes cumbersome past 32GB. Hopefully we can be rid of that blight upon the technology industry at some point.
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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
Uhm, thanks for this information, 2080 GB N900, here we come!
So, no, there are no issues whatsoever with buying an SDHC-supporting Linux device now and using SDXC later. No more FUD, please.
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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage
I'm thinking about buying a G1 for my next smart phone. The N900 doesn't impress me much. The G1 will have 3G or 4G but I want a jail break. I will go with a sim from a go phone, if possible. No more contracts for me. AT&T is not good to their customers.
I could be wrong, don't hold me to this, I didn't ask that specific question....but my impression was that the 3G on the G1 will not work after the change. But I haven't confirmed this. You could call 611 and ask. Might get lucky and talk to someone familiar with the situtation that can give a definite answer.
Of course, everything except 3G will still work as before on the G1 - Edge, GPRS voice, etc. And maybe I'm wrong about the 3G...
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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by danahyatt
I might sell my G1 if I get the N900, so if you want mines we can make a deal or something.
I'm thinking about buying a G1 for my next smart phone. The N900 doesn't impress me much. The G1 will have 3G or 4G but I want a jail break. I will go with a sim from a go phone, if possible. No more contracts for me. AT&T is not good to their customers.
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2009-09-14
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I've got mi own n900 reserved. Just waiting for october 
By the way, nokia sapin says "first week of october" and i readed somewhere this forums middle of october
Is that poassible??
By the way, nokia sapin says "first week of october" and i readed somewhere this forums middle of october
Is that poassible??
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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by kkhitzat
First week plus 5 - 10 days of shipping = middle of october
I've got mi own n900 reserved. Just waiting for october
By the way, nokia sapin says "first week of october" and i readed somewhere this forums middle of october
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2009-09-14
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Originally Posted by remister
My G1 will probably also be up for sale when I get my N900.
I might sell my G1 if I get the N900, so if you want mines we can make a deal or something.
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2009-09-14
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Crashdamage, I thought I knew you from somewhere! Your from the Android community. Well anyways, I know maemo is a really good OS by the looks of it, but does anyone know if we could, per se put an Android OS on there, since they both based on Linux?
Of course, everything except 3G will still work as before on the G1 - Edge, GPRS voice, etc. And maybe I'm wrong about the 3G...