I have said this many a times on this forum. I have had alot of phones in my time but this is the greatest. The possibilities are endless as long as you can think of them.
Im not sure i could own a diffrent phone now. For starters imagine not being able to listen to music and surf the net at the same time (while at bus stop or something). or play your favourite megadrive game while waiting for your girlfreind to turn up whicl listening to music and downloading the movie your just bout to watch.
I used to use my pc at home every single day since i have had my phone there is no point sitting at my computer when i can just go anyware and do all the same things (even compile my latest project and do sum quick bug checking).
I am waiting now for new android phones like the htc evo hopefully they will continue driving prices down, then when the moment is right I hopefully will be able to strike and pick one of these n900's up on the cheap (like under $200). I think I know enough now to know I would be happy but would need the mungen big *** battery too. well as this really doesn't pertain to the thread title I'll exit stage left before I get flamed.
Was messin' around with an iPhone a little and it just reminded me how glad I am I've got this N900 I had to chip in to this thread.
Came to this from Android. Ditching Android is the best decision I've made in a long time. The Maemo UI is soooo good I really hope MeeGo's 'default' UI is very similar. Now I get everything done far faster than I ever could on Android no matter how I customized and re-arranged things. And last night with that iPhone was an exercise in frustration.
I hope I don't drop this thing 'cause going back to my backup old Android and a capacitive screen would be painful. N900 is a terrific gadget, really been worth the money.
Question for you. Does the Easy Debian run pretty well? How long is the boot time? How long to open up Open Office after boot?
Don't need to boot EasyDebian and then open OpenOffice in two seperate operations.
To be able to answer your questions somewhat, I just opened my maemo5 menu, found the OpenOffice icon there, and clicked it. It opens OOo directly without opening a new windows manager. To open OpenOffice took somewhere between 70 and 75 seconds, I clocked it. I also opened the "open file" dialog, which I didn't clock, but it took about 25 seconds. So, while not snappy (it is after all desktop software) it is more usable than one might suspect.
Edit: test done on a not recently rebooted N900, with not very much free rootfs space, and not overclocked CPU.
I got my N900 for christmas: a great device, but of course not perfect. With PR1.2 I expect is to really shine (video calling!). The only thing I really miss at the moment is IMAP IDLE support (i.e. push mail for IMAP).
