Originally Posted by reinob

Welcome back!

It all depends on what you do with it. I have never touched an N9 so I can't say, but I'd never say the N900 is or feels slow. YMMV, obviously.

While you were away, freemangordon started the cssu-thumb project, where many programs are being recompiled using gcc 4.7.x and the thumb2 instruction set (which now runs stable thanks to the linker in >= 4.6.x plus kernel-power >= 51r1).

I have not personally installed cssu-thumb because of the cssu part (which still doesn't quite convince me), but hearing the reports of people who have tried it makes me think that I should try it at least on one of my 3 N900s

The idea with thumb2 is that the programs take less space, which in itself is a blessing for the N900's limited rootfs. But less space also means that the code segments take less space in memory, meaning a bit less RAM is used, and *that* is a blessing for the N900 (obviously most RAM is taken up by dynamically allocated blocks, which will take the same space regardless of the instruction set).

Since AFAIR you were already using CSSU on your N900 (hope you still have it), you should be OK with it.

Anyway, even if you opt for the N9, enjoy it

Originally Posted by tonyhuynh

In response to the thread's owner, I would like to share some of my experiences as a NORMAL user who has spent a year with N9 ( kindly take note that I am a normal user, not a dev!).

Critical apps:
- N9 QTweak ( I use this to increase font size in message SMS, increase Volume, create filecaseroot which can use to browse system files, Enlarge Caller ID Avatar,etc...)
- Billboard (make N9's standby screen much nice and useful, see picture below this post)
- Call Recorder (auto record all in-out call, perfect!)
- Easy Answer (answer the call just by move near to your ear)
- FileCase (browse file and photo and what more? browse your cloud service (like dropbox, skydrive, google drive) right in this app)
- Home screen settings (chane operation provider' name and much more...)
- myExplorer ( transfer file to/from PC easily via wifi )
- FasterN9 (currently use 1.1.3 and witness how N9 faster!)
- Extensions for Status Menu (for the one who donot dare to use much Tweat like me, to get status menu more function and notifications, see picture below this post)
- Meecast ( worth to replace stock one )
- Vibrateme ( phone vibrates as soon as your outing call is answered )

Web browsering:
- Firefox ( for flash video streaming, must have FlashPlayer installed )
- Opera Mobile Labs ( other taste of web browsering )
- Default Web ( daily use )
- Feeds ( cool default app to catch up with daily news)
- TMO forum app ( app to daily follow topics relating to N9, IT and so on...)
- Nokia Tennis ( update info relating to tennis around to world )
- Livescore N9 ( update info relating to football arount to world )

Chat-Blog:
- Facebook default
- Twitter ( not yet used )
- Skype, QuickYM
- Extraplugins Accounts UI (plent of acc for chatting...)

Media:
- Cutetube ( my cool client for youtube, can play in background )
- Zing Music client ( local music client for MP3, online streaming w/o lag while doing multitask )
- FM Radio(by Andrey Kozhanov) ( Listen to local radio w/o internet connection, able to record )
- IP Radio ( internet radio )
- Open Video Player (play video in background)

Photos:
- Panorama
- Instago (client of instagram)
- MOLOME (like instagram, but I prefer this)
- Flickrup (udpated with daily cool photos around the globe)

Games:
- AirAttack
- Bejeweled 2
- Galaxy on Fire 2
- iStunt2
- Angry Birds
- Goldpick
( and a lots I think )

Office: (sorry I put much in this group!)
- CalQtlator (calculator and can record history )
- Translate Mee!
- TranslateAll
- MeeNote (client for cloud Symplenote)
- KeepPage Plugin ( return to page stopped last reading, office doc)
- Converter
- CuteMeter
- Luxmeter
- Velocimeter
- Decibel

Other apps:
- BigKeyboard ( you will see how big a keyboard of a smartphone is! )
- Ringingrestorer (very good app, can set to time the phone restore to normal status from silent for meeting, ect...)
- Call Timer ( alert how lond your ongoing call is )
- Drop Cache (like a ccleaner)
- Firewall+Pro (stop spam sms, reject phonecall)
- GPSMeeFo (boost up the catching of GPS signal, very good in case GPS signal is low)
- Compass
- Hydra widget platform ( play HTML5 widget )
- Liveclock (make the clock icon live)
- MyMoves
- Lockscreen
- Location2sms
- MeeWiMan ( check which wifi signal )
- MyTopSites ( set up action with 2-finger move, 3-finger move,etc...)
- Organizer Feed (push the calendar to-do to feed screen )
- Pockeego ( a kind of bookmark on what you browsed and put on cloud )
- Remove sim shortcut
- ScreenshotMee
- Simple Mirror
- Sleeper (set time to stop a music player for example)
- SwipeManager (extend swipe actions )
- The Flashlight
- Wifi pass recovery (remember wifi pass)

( the list would be longer daily!)

And last but not least, I like to share some of screen shots of my device in which I have put new "clothes" on it, hope you have some joys about this...
Cheers!!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/as85r05kax...7_18-04-14.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5v8le1mbhv...7_18-03-08.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r10lmtjg4h...7_18-02-34.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sg39p6cgpo...%20%282%29.png

Originally Posted by slarti

I can't believe we're 22 posts in and no one has even mentioned ProfileMatic!?

There are maybe five things keeping me tied to my N9:

ProfileMatic (Automate the s***t out of everything)
Billboard (I guess this has been introduced enough)
Speaker Auto Switcher (can't understand why every phone doesn't have this functionality)
myExplorer (the only good SMB client that I know of)
EasyList (just paste a comma delimited list for a quick graphical list)

There are loads of other useful things available but the ones mentioned above combined with the Swipe UI makes the N9 still the best device for me.

Originally Posted by rcolistete

My-MeeGo shows more than 2,000 softwares, more than My-Maemo (with 1,645). But the figures are higher for both : with more than 5 thousand MeeGo softwares in Nokia Store (many are simple interfaces to sites), with more Maemo softwares from the repositories.

If you need office editors (Open/LibreOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc), then install Easy Debian Harmattan. It works with Inception (simple hack to "open" Nokia N9 almost as a N900) or Open Mode Kernel.

Originally Posted by HolgerN

There is an easy way to set most ad servers to localhost inside the hosts config file and block almost all ads.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82180