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The interfaces exposed via USB are almost identical to that of a s60 device. An s60 device needs drivers before communication over USB can be performed.

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Grrrrrrrr :mad:

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SyncML is a standard, I don't understand why syncing over the air isn't supported in either Maemo or S60.

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For those of you with an N900, does your GTALK stay connected? While watching some videos on youtube, it seems like it shows that you're connected and the person is connected, but until you try and send something, it says you're both connected! I find that a pain in the but :P. I'm posting it here since it's part of the contacts app ^^.

How reliable is the internet connection? in the videos the N900 kept on dropping data connections and disconnected from GTALK. Is this going to be a regular issue :S? Or should they change that "Always connected" to "Always connected (unless you get auto-kicked offline)"

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Out of curiousity, will the N900 support PC Suite, or will there be different software so i could transfer contacts from my N70 to the N900?

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I believe I saw here they said that you can use the pc suite. Plugging it into ur usb port will trigger all the possible modes to run in. Hehe.

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oh cool, that would be nice...i just downloaded the newest PC Suite 7 so all should be fine... i just wish the phone already started selling lol, waiting another month is pain..

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I would really like to know if it's a true "always on" device. I'd only be getting it to get away from blackberry, but I do need blackberries "always connected" mentality. From watching the videos from Nokia World, it wasn't too promessing due to the fact that it would your contact as online, and yourself as online, while REALLY being offline! That's discouraging if you ask me. But the phone looks solid :)

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It's always online, just like previous tablets. I'm pretty sure that NW had a lot of Wifi issues from what we've heard. I'll post here if I find out otherwise.

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Ugh I tend to hate to install software to use a device (besides drivers). Hopefully we'll be able to use other software, though as long as PC Suite is multi-platform (Linux, Windows, and even OSX) and it's not terrible memory wise and all I guess I'm fine with it.

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Well, OK, this will be my first time with a Maemo product, but Google came out with Google Sync for my blackberry, and also had it for my Windows Mobile phones. If not, maybe you can use an app just t osync google ONCE to your device or to do it MANUALLY everytime :).

Arg I still can't decide to pre-order this device or not!!! :'( I usually wait for the first few reviews, but my Bold is dying :'( RIP Bold. lol.

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In most Nokia devices you can use USB mass storage to access the memory (and therefore put applications on it to install 'on-device'), so it doesn't necessarily need drivers.

There is no Linux PC Suite at the moment but I think they intend to make one using Qt, why wouldn't you? I believe that might be the Ovi Suite work they're doing in Beta Labs.

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i'm saying this without any in-depth understanding of how the contacts and calendar work in meamo5, but i wonder whether it would be feasible to expect the contacts and calendar application in maemo to be ported to ubuntu? i can think of at least one pleasant use-case:

OTA syncronization of contacts, (conversation) and calendar with a desktop computer, similar to what's possible with ical on mac os x and the iphone.

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Some screenshots of the initial GUI:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3086350...7622487386764/

To do:

• Manual mapping from contact to Facebook/Twitter friends
• Allowing creation of new contacts (desirable?)
• Automatic resyncing for profile pic changes
• Prettier main screen
• Package and publish beta version