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Just an update, one thing I DO wish this phone had..
An easy hang-up button, either using the power button as a hang up button when talking or whatever.. I was just on a conference call with the phone and it worked brilliantly. At the same time I received two SMS messages from my wife which I was able to reply to real time because I had the phone on speaker. When it was time to hang up, I had to fumble around to get back to the phone app so I could hang up. :D Probably sounded funny to the others on the call. "Alright guys, just call me if you need anything else.." "Thanks Sean.." *sound of fumbling and struggling* *click* haha |
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I believe you can exit out of applications in the multi-task view (the expose/scale like view that shows all windows). But it's hard to hit a tiny X in that view.
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Nokia N900 is a mobile computer. Those expecting it to have consumer-smartphone features will be disappoined because Nokia said from the get-go it would not have all of that - Maemo 6 will be the earliest targeted at the smartphone market. This one is a mobile computer with phone functionality, not the other way around.
I can see this fact irritates some people, but it is still a fact. Sure, Nokia is late with a Maemo smartphone, but what N900 is and was always supposed to be is a mobile computer. Next round was announced to be ready for smartphone use. Of course, hopefully N900 will get more and more features as times goes by and Maemo matures, but N900 was launched as it was announced - no question about it. Some ignorant people (and Nokia salespeople too for sure) just mud the issue. Anyone in doubt should check the N900 spec sheet from Nokia: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ They don't even mention the phone other than in the small print... And before anyone goes "but they list it under phones" on their website, well they do and that's stupid (while not techically incorrect since the N900 does have phone capabilities), because they also list the N810 there which has no GSM/3G module. |
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It has a good camera, good media player, interface, etc. If a user don't want to go further, then that's it. If a user wants to dig deeper as the OP did... then more power to them. |
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Cue Nokia logo and fade to black. (So basically everytime the N900 does something amazing you just explain with the "It's Maemo" line). |
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It's all a bit more difficult now, as our vpn, and wifi network at work are locked down for approved Windows devices only. Still my N810 will do the same trick into my home network to admin my mythtv box, and that's really mission critical!! Gaz |
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Our environment is also "locked" down to "approved" devices only, but no one argues with me. I even showed our firewall guy who laughed and said, "Ah man, that's one of our IP's you're looking at, don't show me that.." and just grinned.
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Have you recently put your intelligence to test? Instead of writing utter nonsense & irrelevance on this forum? lolit! You seem to be up N900's *** for no rhyme or reason? Being a fact that the N900 is suffering childhood syndromes & has more faults than your face, I think it's very good that people post about their experience. I guess you're just a bit gutted at the fact that Nokia sorta played you...but hey, you can just queue up with all the rest of naive N900 adopters. ;}!!!!!!! It's a shame that not even God likes you. |
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Thank you for the nice replies everyone!, i must admit i have done a lot of research and really looked into the device, as i have previously said, i don't understand a lot of what it can do, and don't understand the proffesional side of it, but i'm looking forward to learning, i know it has bugs, and issues, and trust me after having my blackberry, i can handle bugs and issues. i've been patiently waiting and visiting the forums, joined the community, watched the videos, and i can't wait to get my gruby little mits on it. I'm not stupid enough to compare it to my iphone, but i'm sick of everyone having one, sick of everyone pointing out how great and wonderfull it is, but never pointing out the faults (proffesional reviewers, magazines) are also guilty of this. Don't get me wrong, i love my iphone, and i may even keep it, but i will embrace nokia, and the N900 and i will get as involved with the community as much as i can and give my 2 cents worth. all in all, i can't wait
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To be fair, my wife has an iPhone 3GS. She had a normal iPhone before that. She loves it. It's perfect for her and what she does. I never bought one though because it was selling itself short for me. It didn't have a shell, it didnt have ssh server/client. It didn't have Perl. It didn't (doesn't I should say for all of these) have a cisco vpn client. It doesnt have multi-tasking.
All these things the N900 DOES have, and for an IT professional, they are INVALUABLE. |
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"Didn't you get the Maemo?" |
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Also, where's Perl? Where's their shell? A *nix shell is extremely powerful, even from a basic navigation + workload point of view. The scripting I can do on the Nokia will remain unsurpassed until someone builds a true shell on another phone. |
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Laughingstok: welcome to Maemo. Us geeks have been doing this kind of crap for a few years on the tablets, but the N900 has gone and made geeky sexy.
If you want more Standard Desktop Linux stuff, I suggest installing Easy Debian from the extras-devel repository. This puts an image file with a standard Debian Lenny rootfs in MyDocs and you can easily chroot in and run all of the usual stuff you can get from the Debian repos, including full perl and all the server software. Complex GUI-based apps tend to get pretty mangled by the phone's finger-friendly UI at the moment, but command-line stuff (and simple GUI stuff) works great. It also seems like a good thread to repost my True Geek's XTerm configuration screenshot: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2493/...c2d5e637_o.png |
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I didn't pre-order n900 but my local cellphone shop will have few N900s arriving today and I'm probably gonna be picking up one tomorrow. I'm just hoping I won't get a faulty unit =/. Other than that I am sure I will enjoy my new phone. And Oh I have N82 as of now. |
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Everything else it's on the community. The Cisco VPN client + RDP/MicroB (yeah it's compatible with Cisco appliances!)/ssh/Easy Debian for productivity apps has saved my hide many, many times... I remember one time I was partying with some tech colleagues, and we got a call due to a server problem, they were thinking "Nooo back to the office), and I said "Wait a second", pulled out my N800, tethered it to my E71, VPN + RDP and solved the issue in 5 minutes. That's when I debuted my "It's Maemo" line :cool: |
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However, I've done a poll here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35033, and if the results would be representative of the actual previous platforms of the buyers "defecting" to the maemo based N900, then BlackBerry and WinMo customers are a tiny group. |
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Hey guys, Im a newbie!! Ordered my N900, and should be receiving it tomorrow! Hopefully UPS will stop playing with my emotions. HAHA
But really, I have done my research on this phone, read forums and watched videos about the phone. Just like barts, I know nothing about Linux or the full capabilities of the phone, but I am willing to learn. I like the phone because it does everything I want to do, most importantly I have email and internet on the go, without having to carry other devices. I know my expectations of the phone. As long as there are no dead pixels and everything works perfectly, I doubt I will be having issues with this phone.... |
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I'd love it if I could get this set up... |
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I used the Nokia PC Suite sofware to sync it to a WIndows XP box. Works like a charm.
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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~<space>user Edit... By this I mean entering the "~" character on the symbol OSK. |
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As les_garten says, if you want a tilde without it being an accept, type tilde then space. The space will be discarded, but it will make the tilde work.
For tab, many applications (including Xterminal) recognize control-I. Regards, Roger |
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(EDIT: 'cause I'd like to be another dude running some of your Python apps) |
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n i ~ n o Congratulations! You've just written "boy child" in Spanish! Or you might be referring to the weather system... |
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writing this from my brand new N900. Wuhu! :)
One problem: My operator id is shown two times, next to each other on the desktop ? Like this: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/wp-con...nboxing_31.jpg Also, id doesn't show any cell id? Is this a bug ? |
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See this thread for XTerm customisation tips. See this thread for re-mapping the keyboard. |
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updated post, noticed that the arrow keys don't work in the app manager and other applications to scroll.
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