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2009-08-23 , 18:26
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
5) Roaming costs (yours truelly burned 400 EUR for 30 MB in Serbia, Europe )
Ah yes. But don't worry, it's not just you/tourists, we shoot ourselves in the foot, too. It costs roughly the same when we leave our little walled garden, with a lot of telco cross-blaming and finger pointing why this is so. Thats why I have a dozen SIMs or so, for different countries, not very 21st century
 

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2009-08-23 , 19:36
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Originally Posted by Espoo888 View Post
T-Mobile UK are offering unlimited data for a £7.50 monthly add on fee - that's not that much.

But you are right, mobile data prices are still generally high and 3G/HSPA network coverage generally poor. This situation is improving all the time though so I stand by my comment that integrated cellular radio is an absolute must have for any personal computing device.

Living in Finland has to have some advantages
Vodafone UK gives it for 5£, even cheaper.. unlimited (Fair Usage policy applies).
 
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2009-08-23 , 23:50
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Originally Posted by anidel View Post
Vodafone UK gives it for 5£, even cheaper.. unlimited (Fair Usage policy applies).
I'm sorry but Vodafone and "unlimited internet" cannot appear together in the same sentence.
if "Fair usage" means "strictly limited to 1G, no voip, no instant messaging, no whatever we don't like today", isn't really unlimited, is it?
 
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2009-08-24 , 01:02
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Loving my Tmobile webnwalk plus, 3gb and everything except voip allowed.

All for £7.50 on top.
 
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2009-08-24 , 05:15
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Not sure if Apple still "owns" the patent to multi-touch. Last I heard some company in Asia was suing Apple for patent infringement over multi-touch.
From what i remember, Apple never owned the patent to MT and tried to buy the company that developed it but the owners realised there was a lot money to be made licensing it instead.

So i think Apple invested in the company in exchange for a period exclusivity of around 2 years and the patent only applied to a narrow usage case.

I could be wrong on this but i remember hearing it being discussed on TWIT a while back.
 
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2009-08-24 , 06:02
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Looks like the unlimited data question touches a raw nerve - never mind.

Back on topic, the N900 has a GSM/3G/HSPA chipset and will be awesome.

Is it true that Eldar will post an N900 FAQ today?

Any idea of the questions list?

I would like a comprehensive list of S60 functions/apps that have been ported across to the Maemo 5 / N900 combo. This is important for me and anybody else who accepts that the N900 is a smartphone not an internet tablet

Maemo 5 + Nokia hardware + developer community + S60 functionality ports (Nokia) > Apple iPhone / Android / WM
 
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2009-08-24 , 06:08
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The wierd thing about the N900 is that its running a pc like OS on a phone like hardware, hopefully it wont confuse consumers and end up emulating the recent failure of Linux on low end laptops.
 
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2009-08-24 , 06:17
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Originally Posted by dansus View Post
The wierd thing about the N900 is that its running a pc like OS on a phone like hardware, hopefully it wont confuse consumers and end up emulating the recent failure of Linux on low end laptops.
What do you mean by PC Like OS? Just because there is a Linux kernel in it doesn't mean the UI, the drivers and the rest of OS stack couldn't be optimized for mobile use.

I also don't think there is a chance in confusing end users just because there is a Debian based Linux variant running on a piece of HW. The end user doesn't care if the OS is Linux, BSD or Windows - (s)he only wants a device that works well and fulfills her or his needs. Just as the success of the iPhone has nothing to do with the fact that there is a BSD core in it.
 

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2009-08-24 , 06:21
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Originally Posted by dansus View Post
The wierd thing about the N900 is that its running a pc like OS on a phone like hardware, hopefully it wont confuse consumers and end up emulating the recent failure of Linux on low end laptops.
Well, it's not running Windows. It's running a variant or an optimized version of the linux which IMHO is very much fine. Also, the OMAP3 processors are proven (Beagle, Pandora) to be doing good.

Apart from that, whatever eye-candy was missing/needed, Nokia team had already done a fantastic job on that. So, all in all, I don't see any issue at all.

The masses would love it!

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Slightly offtopic: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews...60574.html/1/1
Nokia chief meets Indian Prime Minister to discuss about affordable connectivity in India.

With a 400+ (currently) million mobile market, I am just too excited how things turn out to be. Hip Hip Hurray
 

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2009-08-24 , 06:23
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Originally Posted by dansus View Post
The wierd thing about the N900 is that its running a pc like OS on a phone like hardware, hopefully it wont confuse consumers and end up emulating the recent failure of Linux on low end laptops.
I don't think consumers "see" the OS. What they see is a user interface. Maemo 5 (other than previous versions) does its best to hide its desktop origins. In fact, some of the visual concepts come right from S60.

While this caused a lot of disappointment among those who expected another iteration of the traditional MID/netbook OS, it will certainly help newcomers understand that this is "only" a phone.
 

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