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mikec

2010-09-29 18:57

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMaff (Post 829536)

Somehow I did not understand your joke.
;-)

No Worries, it served to bump the thread.....

but remember , "There can be only one"

cheve

2010-09-29 19:34

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

the downside to this is(ie. N900 winning), the 2nd hand n900 unit will be more expensive

pantera1989

2010-09-29 19:48

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheve (Post 829578)

the downside to this is(ie. N900 winning), the 2nd hand n900 unit will be more expensive

Yes, if the N900 wins, prices will rocket sky high. Nokia's stock will go up by 60 points and the market share by 15%

casper27

2010-09-29 20:17

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by pantera1989 (Post 829587)

Yes, if the N900 wins, prices will rocket sky high. Nokia's stock will go up by 60 points and the market share by 15%

You'd be suprised just googled

http://www.google.com/m/search?clien...msung+galaxy+s

And look what is the thrid result.If someone was undecided about a choice between the two those results and comments could sway it.

dmj726

2010-09-29 20:21

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Worthwhile comment from C. Whiteham in the poll comments:

Quote:

C.Whiteham says:
September 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

To really get a sense of how Not-In-The-Same-League the smartphones (such as Galaxy S and other Android things) are, compared to the Internet tablets (N900, N9, N8, etc.), you really need to compare what happens when there is NO APP for what you want to do. Let’s think of something weird that no one would ever write an app for.

Does the Galaxy S have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? No, it doesn’t. So what to do? Well, you can just type the following two lines in a file:

#/bin/bash
while /bin/true; do sleep 60s; if (( 30 \> $( lshal | grep percentage | grep -o \\d\\d ) )); then dbus-send –type=method_call –dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.MailTo string:”mailto:myemail@myaddress.com\nbattery is low!” ; fi ; done

There you go, *NOW* the N900 will send you an email when battery strength is less than 30.

But wait, Galaxy S owner, I know what you want to say: “But my cousin’s neighbour’s mom knows someone who wrote an Android app that does *exactly* that, which is available for only $0.99! And it even has coloured blinking lights on our HIGH RESOLUTION screen!”

Okay, fine then, does the Galaxy S have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak the cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak out loud the current cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? No, it doesn’t. So guess what the N900 owner does? Why, create a new program with the following two-line text file, of course:

#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/fmtx_client -p 1 && dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=com.nokia.phone.net /com/nokia/phone/net Phone.Net.get_signal_strength | espeak -v zh

Let me guess, Galaxy S owner, you’re about to say, “Wait a minute! Did you just CREATE TWO NEW APPS there by typing in two lines of shell scripting?” Yeah, you can do it while you’re waiting for the train. What’s that, you were NOT about to say that? You were actually about to say, “What on earth is ‘shell scripting’?” Well, it’s like programming, but simpler. What’s that you say? “What is ‘programming’?” “What’s a ‘file’?” “What’s an operating system?”

What’s that? “Why are we talking about computers, anyway? This is a smart phone competition! Besides, who wants to type in those REALLY LONG 2-line programs which are freely customizable? We have an app store where we can wait for Google to get around to making exactly the right app, and you’re stuck with –okay, I guess the N900 has an app store, too, plus your set of three no-cost Maemo repositories… But, umm … we have more gigahertz than you! Yeah, that’s it!”

Seriously, Galaxy S, come back when your user does NOT need to go running off to some app store every time you want permission to do something with the device.

I tried out the scripts, and they work. Yeah, that sort of thing gives one a whole new respect for the n900.

gerbick

2010-09-29 20:23

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Ok... originally the Highlander references were cool. Now? Not so much.

mece	2010-09-29 20:26

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

A really nice comment from C.Whiteham on the fonearena page :)
Spot on. Are you on here mr/ms/mrs Whiteham?

@Gerbick, no, They're still cool :P

sjgadsby

2010-09-29 20:34

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 829614)

Ok... originally the Highlander references were cool. Now? Not so much.

Yeah, should have been left at...just...the...one.

casper27

2010-09-29 20:37

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjgadsby (Post 829625)

Yeah, should have been left at...just...the...one.

I thought there could be only one anyway :)

mece	2010-09-29 20:38

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjgadsby (Post 829625)

Yeah, should have been left at...just...the...one.

I guess. But nice to see this thread... quickening.

gerbick

2010-09-29 20:39

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Ok.... the references... they're back cool again.

mikec

2010-09-29 20:43

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 829614)

Ok... originally the Highlander references were cool. Now? Not so much.

You know you wanted more

http://www.toyotaautosinfo.com/wp-co...-Hybrid-22.jpg

Sorry:D

gerbick

2010-09-29 20:54

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikec (Post 829634)

You know you wanted more

Sorry:D

You owe me a cup of tea... and almost a computer screen!

Dave999

2010-09-29 20:59

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 829627)

I thought there could be only one anyway :)

you are correct. and that is Chuck Norris! forget the higlander.

also just voted again.

NOMOS

2010-09-29 21:11

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmj726 (Post 829610)

Worthwhile comment from C. Whiteham in the poll comments:

I tried out the scripts, and they work. Yeah, that sort of thing gives one a whole new respect for the n900.

This is so cool. I have no knowledge of programming or scripting, and I am running my device at 900 mhz, overclocked myself, have conky to check my set up, running ultra low voltage, and am pretty sure ill get android running on it too with the autoinstaller.

But, you know what always makes other peoples jaws drop?
FM transmitting in a car. Without a cable, they are always confused. So funny.

maxximuscool

2010-09-29 21:54

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Yep I voted 6x times :D

maxximuscool

2010-09-29 21:58

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOMOS (Post 829658)

You know what drop more people jaws?
Unlocked the FM transmitter so that it will work with any type of stereo frequency range :D

I've put together the hack and write a small script for it and combination to make it unlocked completely :D

Here in NZ the car we bought are from Japan and the stereo came with it usually have the japanese frequency range. Which is 76~88.0Mhz. So N900 is the best :D

Last night I just hacked something else :D

SAABoy

2010-09-29 22:38

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 829676)

this sounds very evil

SAABoy

2010-09-29 22:38

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

""""'"Worthwhile comment from C. Whiteham in the poll comments:

C.Whiteham says:
September 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

To really get a sense of how Not-In-The-Same-League the smartphones (such as Galaxy S and other Android things) are, compared to the Internet tablets (N900, N9, N8, etc.), you really need to compare what happens when there is NO APP for what you want to do. Let’s think of something weird that no one would ever write an app for.

Does the Galaxy S have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? No, it doesn’t. So what to do? Well, you can just type the following two lines in a file:

#/bin/bash
while /bin/true; do sleep 60s; if (( 30 \> $( lshal | grep percentage | grep -o \\d\\d ) )); then dbus-send –type=method_call –dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.MailTo string:”mailto:myemail@myaddress.com\nbattery is low!” ; fi ; done

There you go, *NOW* the N900 will send you an email when battery strength is less than 30.

But wait, Galaxy S owner, I know what you want to say: “But my cousin’s neighbour’s mom knows someone who wrote an Android app that does *exactly* that, which is available for only $0.99! And it even has coloured blinking lights on our HIGH RESOLUTION screen!”

Okay, fine then, does the Galaxy S have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak the cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak out loud the current cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? No, it doesn’t. So guess what the N900 owner does? Why, create a new program with the following two-line text file, of course:

#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/fmtx_client -p 1 && dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=com.nokia.phone.net /com/nokia/phone/net Phone.Net.get_signal_strength | espeak -v zh

Let me guess, Galaxy S owner, you’re about to say, “Wait a minute! Did you just CREATE TWO NEW APPS there by typing in two lines of shell scripting?” Yeah, you can do it while you’re waiting for the train. What’s that, you were NOT about to say that? You were actually about to say, “What on earth is ‘shell scripting’?” Well, it’s like programming, but simpler. What’s that you say? “What is ‘programming’?” “What’s a ‘file’?” “What’s an operating system?”

What’s that? “Why are we talking about computers, anyway? This is a smart phone competition! Besides, who wants to type in those REALLY LONG 2-line programs which are freely customizable? We have an app store where we can wait for Google to get around to making exactly the right app, and you’re stuck with –okay, I guess the N900 has an app store, too, plus your set of three no-cost Maemo repositories… But, umm … we have more gigahertz than you! Yeah, that’s it!”

Seriously, Galaxy S, come back when your user does NOT need to go running off to some app store every time you want permission to do something with the device.''"""""

awesome. thats a veriation of nerd rage; nerd pwn.

9000	2010-09-29 23:46

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOMOS (Post 829658)

But, you know what always makes other peoples jaws drop?
FM transmitting in a car. Without a cable, they are always confused. So funny.

To add more fun to the similar situation, secretly played a MP3 of a woman speaking in hideous voice followed by horrible screaming thru the FM radio of your friend's car.

Though later I learnt not to do that again unless I am the one who drive, it was really fun as hell.

gerbick

2010-09-30 00:15

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

So wait... they fixed the ability to charge your phone & use the FM transmitter?

I'll have to check it out in a bit.

mr_bridger

2010-09-30 05:46

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Last day of voting has arrived... cmon peeps, lets have at least double the SGS votes!!! its been catching up!

mece	2010-09-30 06:13

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 829728)

So wait... they fixed the ability to charge your phone & use the FM transmitter?

I'll have to check it out in a bit.

Yep. The install "fm-boost" and "Simple FMTX desktop widget" And it works. You need to re-boost after you set it on charge (eg. click twice on the widget)

9000	2010-09-30 06:57

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 829692)

""""'"Worthwhile comment from C. Whiteham in the poll comments:

C.Whiteham says:
September 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

...

I reposted this awesome post here -> http://www.maemoers.com/forum.php?mo...xtra=#pid52855

euanandrews

2010-09-30 07:08

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Voted.

N900 kicking butt!
Current result:
N900 - 68.54% (5596 votes)
Samsung Galaxy S - 31.46% (2569 votes)

Sweet.

maxximuscool

2010-09-30 07:26

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mece (Post 829846)

Yep. The install "fm-boost" and "Simple FMTX desktop widget" And it works. You need to re-boost after you set it on charge (eg. click twice on the widget)

There is no need to install FM-Boost. Just follow my hack thread you can get the FM strength to 120 every time you enable FM Transmitter. Also at the same time it is fully unlocked from 76.0Mhz to 107.9 Mhz as well.

Simple FTMX desktop Widget is very buggy. After the N900 uptime reached 1day and 5hours the Hildon-home will starting to overloading the CPU and RAM. So I suggest to stay away from it.

Nothing wrong with the hacking method and I tested it by left my device on for 5days and hildon-home runs as normal as the first day. Also charging bug has been fixed in the hacked version :D

My signature got the link to the thread.

PMaff

2010-09-30 09:40

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by 9000 (Post 829718)

While "gerbick" was talking about a cup of tea and a new monitor
you owe me the food that is now all over my monitor!
:D

PMaff

2010-09-30 09:42

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_bridger (Post 829835)

Last day of voting has arrived... cmon peeps, lets have at least double the SGS votes!!! its been catching up!

We have double:
68,57% to 31.43%

Maybe I was wrong when I said we will win with approx. 62% .
:D

joelsk

2010-09-30 09:47

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Anyone know the link for a similar thread in nokia conversations?
If any that is...

PMaff

2010-09-30 10:59

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

@9000 : I guess you activated the Chinese forums for N900?
:D

maxximuscool

2010-09-30 11:04

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

I activated Nokia World Facebook site :D

9000	2010-09-30 11:40

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMaff (Post 829996)

@9000 : I guess you activated the Chinese forums for N900?
:D

Nah, they have maemo communities since N770. :D

cheve

2010-09-30 14:05

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by 9000 (Post 830022)

Nah, they have maemo communities since N770. :D

it appears that you did not give the link to the contest.

gerbick

2010-09-30 14:12

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mece (Post 829846)

Yep. The install "fm-boost" and "Simple FMTX desktop widget" And it works. You need to re-boost after you set it on charge (eg. click twice on the widget)

Awesome. Thanks man.

Andrew_b

2010-09-30 16:59

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

I guess we should wait until the poll closes before pointing it out to The Register in their article titled "Smartphone buyers want Apple, Android" based on some dodgy US-centric research. Those US buyers just don't know what they're missing. Hopefully they will find out over the next few years as Nokias OS / Dev platform strategy unfolds and they re-build links with the networks 'over there'.

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/09/3...vey_sept_2010/

gerbick

2010-09-30 17:04

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Wow. As a person that's traveled the world, this collective here is the most concerned about US media ever. Dude... Americans don't take US Media serious. Neither should you.

Dave999

2010-09-30 17:16

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Don't take americans serious. They have their phones in a belt clip. I've seen it with my own eyes :)

casper27

2010-09-30 17:20

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave999 (Post 830229)

Don't take americans serious. They have their phones in a belt clip. I've seen it with my own eyes :)

Ha so true, when me an the missus were there I swere this one guy had what could only be described as a Batman utility belt.
He had his phone, knive, small torch and a keys holder. Looked really cool :p

ossipena

2010-09-30 17:40

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 830231)

He had his phone, knive, small torch and a keys holder. Looked really cool :p

dude, it is only cool if you have underpants on top of your spandex pants...

;)

Bu11sHi773r

2010-09-30 17:46

Re: GRAND FINAL!!!! VOTE NOW!!. Fone Arena Smartphone Championship - N900 FTW!

Quote:

Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 830231)

Must have been me. :D
Did you see 3 phones or 2? :cool:

I'll pass on the spandex pants if ya'll don't mind. :o

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