Re: This phone is freaking amazing.. day in the life..
 

care to elaborate on this? i run notes under ubuntu and I'd love a way to sync my calendar. i suspect you may be relying on something windowsy or on a server that lets you in?

I'd love it if I could get this set up...

Re: This phone is freaking amazing.. day in the life..
 

I used the Nokia PC Suite sofware to sync it to a WIndows XP box. Works like a charm.

Keyboard
 

The Keyboard layout for a Linux device is a little irritating.

1) I have what appears to be a non functioning Tilde(~) key. I can't find a Tilde on the normal keyboard. If you go to the Virutal Keyboard and enable it, when you click on the numbers option, the Tilde(~) is far right. I click on it and it stays Blue like the button hangs and the tilde is not inserted. Does anyone else have this happen? I may need to send mine back, that would be a major irritation!

2) Three keys I kinda want handy. Tilda, TAB, and PIPE. None of these are on the main keyboard? I'm sure TAB is someplace but I'm still looking for it.

Main thing is the Tilde key presently, does anyone elses not work?

Thanx!

Re: N900 review... pros and cons
 

Oh sorry... mr nerdy nerdesson got pissed with the ladies comment? :o

Its indeed very irrelevant to discuss this much with this useless thread that already is deviating a lot from the purpose. But since you had a brain diarrhea and decided to vomit ignorance I needed to lower the level to actually try to communicate with you.

I just dont understand your hatred with Nokia and its products, and still hanging around the forum. And if that is being a fan boy, then I am one.

And hey kiddo, I got what you want. You just want someone to agree with you cos you life is kinda pointless and you are probably in the basement of mama... Fanboy is leaving Mr. Big Guy.

ps. wish you the best luck with da ladies

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)
 

I finally got mine today. Been playing around with it for around 9 hours now - I took the day off work.

Mostly good impressions. I've only installed official applications from Maemo Select and Extras but am getting messages saying not enough memory. I'm trying a reboot but have to do some work soon.

Re: This phone is freaking amazing.. day in the life..
 

First off, congratulations. Sounds like you're kickin' a*s and takin' names. Secondly, we're on the same team; remember, I said, "in a pinch." I'm a hardcore Maemo guy; I'm probably the only dude on here using their own Python virtual terminal as their primary tablet console. I might also be the only dude on here using their own Python webkit wrapper as their primary tablet browser. My IDE has been vim for 24 years; that goes for non-cygwin Windows and DOS also. I think I qualify. Thirdly, I'm running iPhone OS 3.1.2, so here:

Settings->General->Network->VPN->Add VPN Configuration->IPSec

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Re: Keyboard
 

It seems that 3rd row down on the symbols soft-keybd consists of characters that can be accent modifiers or regular keys. Hitting space after typing the symbol will insert it, or typing another character will apply the accent to it.

Re: N900 review... pros and cons
 

So it's ignorance if you disagree with any Nokia design decision and it's hatred if you find any fault with Nokia hardware. Must be a new Finnish law I overlooked.

I hope Nokia is listening more to people like the OP and far less (or not at all) to fanboys like HangLoose. He may want the forum to turn into an electronic choir of unceasing praise but there are those of us who want something better and are counting on Nokia to build it.

Re: Keyboard
 

The Tilde key is not an accent key.

See if you can type this: ~user

The symbol before user is a tilde. It is on the Virtual Keyboard, but it doesn't work on mine. I would like to know if others have the problem as well.

Re: This phone is freaking amazing.. day in the life..
 

Meh, I think the "N900 is for geeks" is utter ********.
I have NO idea how to code. Never used Linux. Don't care about it being able to log into weird things I never heard of.
I only want it for the great multimedia features it has. For example:
Full flash support. I can watch live TV streams in the browser in full screen.
Internet Radio. I asked a while ago how the radio streaming is. It's probably the ONLY phone that decodes AAC+ streams correctly (I'm not sure about this though)
Video playback. I can play video content from my network without having to re-encode it!
I know other phones can do this too, but they 1. don't do it properly or 2. only do some of these.
Oh, and did I mention I can browse the web like on my desktop? Currently (N95 8GB) I can't do what I'd like to do quickly. Like downloading a quick MP3 from rapidshare when I hear it somewhere, or quickly watch a YT clip (takes pretty long to load, and choppy)
So...People who want a great multimedia experience will probably love the N900 too :D