Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

After I bought my n900 I was having some buyer's remorse. Hell I only paid like 50 bucks for it cuz my work gave me gift cards as a signing bonus for its workers not going on strike. Then I saw the nexus & the droid. I'm like I jumped the gun and no app store! Actually anymore I don't care, this n900 is just ungodly, its like Satan's phone. Cause god would probably use an iphone. Using this thing I feel like I sold my soul, its just too awesome. There are sooooo many good REAL games for it. Open arena? Beneath a steel sky? Wormux? Super Tux? Even bad *** Duke Nuke 'em! I find iphone apps very generic quick pick up games sometimes with pretty graphics. This thing plays what I consider "real" games. Really this thing rocks. An amazing moment for me is when I loaded the media player widget and it showed whats playing while another widget showed the lyrics! Now that was cool. I customized my desktop. Not a big fan of the panaramic view, but u can just treat that like four desktops. O ya I HATE DRM!!! Only on certain devices can u run certain things...hate it.
Games with drm are real bad cause if u authorize a computer with itunes and it crashes, there goes 1 of your 5 authorized computers! My only 2 complaints are no d-pad/ and the kickstand is pretty useless...wish it were adjustable. I've used my ipod touch 1st gen for almost 3 years I think? No multi-touch doesn't even bother me. I just can't seem to figure out how to show all files on the n900, u know like in root, like system files and where apps install Want to change opening video .I kinda like having a keyboard and stylus....thought no multi-touch would suck and it doesn't. Its just different. Multi-tasking is crazy fast. Quite a few other phones have this processor and why can't they d it? This thing is awesome, if you got this far, thanks for reading the rant. I also took a couple pics of my desktop on the phone.. Thank you all!

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

Glad to hear it! :)
As for changing the splash video, there is a thread on that, but I'm too tired to look it up. Search around, and you should find out how to do that. You will have to use the terminal to mess around with system files (you'll need the "rootsh" package to get root access - look at the wiki article); the GUI file manager doesn't show those files because the default user ("user") does not have permissions to modify them anyway, and they're irrelevant to Joe User anyway.

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

i did something already like sudo root

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

I must agree, this computer is awesome, the community is awesome aswell!
No day passes without new and original apps :D


P.S. community, be more friendly to noobs :P

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

Here is the thread on changing the video showed during the boot
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32935

Hartti

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

Also.. showing all files like in root... somewhere floating around here is emelfm2... look it up. That should do better than the default File Manager.

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

From what I've seen this looks like a great phone indeed :)
I disagree on the games though, iPhone has a few games I'd love to see on the N900. Like Monkey Ball or similar..:)

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

A port of Neverball would be nice in the future. :)

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

N64/psx are real games I want emulated. cps2 would be great as well.

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

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Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

i can only say the same. I am in the community just for a month and I havde more fun discovering maemo community that almost everything else. Long life maemo!!! Thanks community!!!!

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

I love the phone, it has done everything I've asked of it and more (first getting it and seeing my PC pop up in my media player with no tinkering from me felt great) and the forums have been very useful.

At the moment it seems like the forums are full of people who have just got the phone and realise that it's not what they thought it was going to be which was a fully fledged Iphone/Android rival right out of the box with all the apps to match.

I upgraded to the N900 from the N95 knowing it was an investment for the future. Several months from now when we have an Ovi store and the community has settled and all the impulse buyers have moved on to their next phone and forum I'm sure the community and the phone will be fantastic.

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

I'm really happy with so many linux apps being ported to n900's maemo, accessible through the application manager's catalogues.
oh btw, the recent maemo.org theme there is pretty cool!

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

I'd just like to second the thanks
it's really awsome that n900 users don't have to go anywhere else for all their needs. looking at symbian, android, WM and all the other ****, they have to do a pretty big search around the whole web to find what they want, but not here
I guess it also shows the people (and I mean people, no corp. kiss butts) who are the ones truely behind maemo 5 development
thanks guys

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

Yeah Ive gone through alot of phones before the n900. (iphones,blackberrys,htc) but this is the first phone that impressed me when i first turned it on until now. And the community itself is an asset. Most people on it are helpful and can usually direct you to the solution to your problem. I just think that people should cut others a break. A little less snippiness goes a long way. By the way, anybody know where i can get one of those N900 PUSH shirts?

Re: Love my n900, just wanted to thank the community.
 

The reason i got the phone is not only that it runs on debian based linux.. it's also cause of the community. As i am comming from the Ubuntu crowd (am using Ubuntu on my desktop). I know how important a good community can be. Nokia was smart to go linux with their OS. Think how much money they have saved doing so. I hope the community will survive the RPM/Intel merge.

Just wanted to say you guys are awesome! ;)