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I remember reading this somewhere although they're not active noise cancelling (no expensive D.S.P. and mics) just physically shaped to fit real snug.

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Thanks to everyone for a great evening.
The venue was awesome, very minimalist, you had to be a good aim to use the urinal, I half expected there to be three seashells in the toilets.
The presentations were very good, Liqbase looks exiting though the head of marketing (I forget her name) didn't seem to0 clued up technically, answering most questions with an unsure 'yes'.

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To be fair to Tanjia (sp)/Tanya she told me she was only asked to do the presentation yesterday so barely had any notice - I guess one of her colleagues must have dropped out.

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I actually took the day off tomorrow so I can party all night :D

@ Anidel: I didn't mean to gloat or anything... no hard feelings I hope! I'll buy you and/or your gf a drink next time we meet :)

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Glad you all had a great time. I'm thinking about a post delivery meet-up... anyone fancy a pub in Brum? (I'm a country bumpkin, remember? Birmingham scares me less than London. :p )

I really don't scare that easily. Courtesy of the NHS, I am well trained to deal with trouble. ;) Yes, do let me know when you're down this way. I am only 2 hours from Exeter!!

What a devastatingly good-looking bunch of people!

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*sigh* You didn't say that about the people in the video Speculatrix posted.
That looks like the pre-meeting at Chandos,
How many people were there at Chandos? I think we got up to 20 at Starbucks

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Lol i work for the NHS too :) (But as an IT Advisor, so my training is more in geek handling!) I'm up for an N900 meet! :) :) - lots of mates in Brum Brum!

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The headphones are passively noise cancelling (they fit in the ear canal better) and come with three differently sized rubber ends. (Not sure what you call the part that actually fits inside the ear canal.)

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Picture attached of someone looking suitably smug! :)

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Well I'm game for a meetup too. Maybe I can buy you that drink then Kathy.

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Haha I should have worn my Sunday-best. If only I knew... :)

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Congrats to convulted!!!
Man that was awesome!

Really glad to meet everyone, definitely have a NUG meet when we all have that smug look of satisfaction once the N900 is in our hands. The presentations were ok, had seen most of the stuff before online. But it was nice to be surrounded by a gluttony of N900s. Yea I think the Nokia staff were caught off guard by the veracity and intricacy of some of the questions. As mentioned earlier Nokia were very surprised by the mass appeal of the N900. Especially since they don't deem it a flagship phone (lol).

On what comes next I got a widely varying view. Some state that the next revision should be ready in about a years time, others say more like two. Some say the new maemo (6) will run on the N900 others said it wont. Others say it will be multitouch (cp) without a keyboard, others say that the touch technology to be used is undecided and it will come in 2 or more versions with keyboard etc. What I take away from that is they really are not 100% sure or they are keeping everything very close. Either way our focus should be on the N900 and watching the app development continue with that, since that will most likely be one of the factors to determine Nokias strategy towards the Maemo platform.

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Hate to start rumours but did anyone else spot the first meeting in Tanya's calendar for the 18th November when she had it plugged in to the screens?

It showed "New Rover meeting" or "New rover something"

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My view on this is that Maemo development was previously undermined by lack of truly powerful devices. See, N8x0 wasn't exactly fastest thing around, which wasn't helping the OS that had great potential. With N900 processing power and generally hardware doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, hence I expect to see rapid plaftorm development with fairly frequent updates rolled over-the-air to production devices, which would presumably bring features that are currently not there (MMS, video calling etc etc.). For time being, N900 and Maemo is very geeky device, however I think that within about a year or so Maemo will get mature enough to attract mass-market users too. All in all, I am seeing Maemo's future in bright colours and looking forward to see it's growing. :)

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If anyone caught Tanya's surname and full job title I'd be grateful... I'd like to update my blog post properly rather than just calling her 'a presenter' and 'from Maemo marketing'.

100 internet points to the first (believable reply) and 1 million bonus points if you have a link for her.

*not to self.... ask... for... business cards... put the wine down...*

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Now it might just be the wine but I seem to remember her being introduced as Head of Marketing but there might have been a regional designation there. Suspect a quick google with nokia and marketing would reveal the answer.

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Tanja Sauvola, that is what I think it was according to my memory and Google augmentation.

<Stalker mode on>
http://www.facebook.com/tanja.sauvola
<Stalker mode off>

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I hate you Mr. Winner.

The poor fins must have seen your brickphone and fixed the whole shabang!

Hahahaha! So true!

Plus, the exit door confused me for a minute!

Yeah - I spot that! Was wondering if anyone else would say anything.

Check some of the vids on qik I believe you could see it on her facebook, can't remember the name exactly.

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Best update then http://noknok.tv/2009/11/18/nokia-n9...-42-11-update/

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Haha that is so true. I think I was the only one there with a monchromatic screen on their phone. I'm gonna miss my 1110 :D

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I hate you!

Especially that not MPD has put back their release date :(

Hate! Hate! Hate! :mad:

:p

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Assuming that announcement from NFS that they are going to have stock tomorrow (Thu) is true, I reckon MPD will push devices to pre-order customers about the same time. Note that MPD advertised they are going to send N900s directly from "Nokia stores" (assuming that's not warehouse), hence they actually could post them from NFS itself.

Time will tell. :)

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Unfortunately it seems NFS london has retracted it's comment on selling them tomorrow....

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When they've said directly from 'Nokia Stores', they in fact mean from their-run ones outside of London. Which definitely not getting them this week, because Nokia delayed them again. (according to them)

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FFS, this is getting extremely annoying!!!

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Especially now I've seen it...

:mad:

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Do you have a link for that?
because maemo.nokia.com is saying the N900 is out now

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No link as such, but the NFS twitter comment has been deleted by them.... leading me to beleive that either they shouldn't have posted it, they changed plans, or that (hopefully) they got too many people phoning them to reconfirm and so took it off

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It's said that for a while now.

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Actually, at the time, they were.

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Mine does some of this.

If the screen is locked, opening the keyboard unlocks it; closing the keyboard *without using anything* locks it again.

If the screen is unlocked, opening the keyboard and closing the keyboard does not lock it.

My feeling is that I use the keyboard sporadically and locking using it would be a pain.

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Glad to see everyone everyone enjoyed last night :-)
http://mobileinfo.nomadsnirvana.com/...vent-in-london

I know I did.
I have a huge headache thanks the Jaffa and Gary :eek:

Convulted I'd be lying if I didn't say I was freaking jealous ;-) well done

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FWIW, I took that on my N900 in the hotel bar afterwards.

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Who is the "they"? Those of us in the community who were there were speculating based on our experience and guesswork (and wishes, TBH); definitely not with any fore knowledge of Nokia stuff.

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Looks like we all staring at Nina, I have a feeling she is talking about her boss and a night out at Karaoke, helped them come up with the Nokia offline as it happens ;-)

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Hi everyone)
it was really nice meetup
thanks all))
today i saw that status in twitter and facebook.about sellin n900 from tomorrow.however they deleted then this status.i send them email.
they replied

"Hi,

We understand that its been shipped but next week is looking more likely.

Best regards,

Susie"


well next week,probably then another next week.what a...

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Based on the number of downloads in Extras, I'd say while it might be 'out' from Nokia, it has yet to hit the actual shelves/users (anywhere, not just UK).

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Thanks for clarification. I was making an overall comment on my impression of the community and what I got from the people present. It was more an extrapolation than an identifiable quote. I by no means was stating that this was a representation of Nokias strategy.

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Bingo - that's her. Many thanks...

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Please don't infect every single thread with "has your N900 shipped yet?"

Why is it that so many of the coolest Maemo people are in the UK?

Congrats convulted. I'm pleased to see the N900 went to a t.m.o. member that's been around since 2006.

I feel so lonely wayyy out here...