OK, what advantage is there in switching to Android for a N900 user?
I am due an upgrade and could get a dual core but apart from faster processing, which the 18 month old N900 can't do a lot about, I still feel the advantages of the N900 out weigh any Android device in my view.
It still has a superb browser, decent sat nav, a fm radio and transmitter, a good media player, plus a load of decent apps and also the WebOS games.
OK, what advantage is there in switching to Android for a N900 user?
I am due an upgrade and could get a dual core but apart from faster processing, which the 18 month old N900 can't do a lot about, I still feel the advantages of the N900 out weigh any Android device in my view.
It still has a superb browser, decent sat nav, a fm radio and transmitter, a good media player, plus a load of decent apps and also the WebOS games.
Android has better Apps and has Flash and also OS is updated more frequently and usually Android device has more RAM. 256 MB is a bit low and also Ovi-Store is a shame. I don't know about the other app-stores but Ovi-Store rulez are gay.
Android has better Apps and has Flash and also OS is updated more frequently and usually Android device has more RAM. 256 MB is a bit low and also Ovi-Store is a shame. I don't know about the other app-stores but Ovi-Store rulez are gay.
You can have Android on your N900. In fact you can get a more recent version than most Android users. Also full Market. So basically we are talking about iOS and WP7. I think we can agree on the fact that Symbian is not even in the same street with Maemo, and WebOS is pretty much the same as Maemo if we talk about avaible apps. WP7 may look nice, but it is yet to be a true smartphone platform, it is currently in its iPhone2G-like-years. What remains is iOS.
256MB is indeed low - for Android OS.
I've never ran out of memory on my phone, even on extreme multitasking conditions - it was indeed choppy with a lot of apps opened - but it never ran out of memory. Of course, having 512MB of RAM would be always better.
"Android has better Apps" - Yes and No, some are better, others are just a shame. It has more apps, indeed.
"Ovi Store is a shame" - I completely agree, but Android Store is not that good... You see a lot of spam applications, I mean: 5 applications doing the same, appearing on the list, but just with different languages? Come on.
Android is a good OS, and Maemo too.... So is iOS, webOS, etc....
*gets in Jeep and goes off-roading*
*plays music from n900 over radio*
*receives call from Enterprise Operations from my job telling me one of our Apache servers has gone down and I need to fix, also comes over speakers*
*stops offroading, turns down volume, connects to work vpn and opens a shell on n900*
*SSH's to apache box, ps -ef | grep httpd, daemons are running.. odd..*
*pops open browser and connect to a onesight monitoring tool to check website statuses, notice they're all down..*
*pop open remote desktop app and connect to IIS servers to check if theyre running.. they are, sites accessible from localhost..*
*open up another shell and telnet to apache box port 80 and 443 to verify ports are truly listening.. connet, do a GET, pull back site. Good.*
*nslookup website, pull back correct external IP*
*scratch head.. *
*call firewall guy, listen to call over radio, rain starts to fall on Jeep*
*check forecast and radar, storm comin and still got a ways to go..*
*firewall guy discovers issue, goes to work on it*
*disconnect from vpn and verify i can access sites externally again*
*hang up with firewall guy, call back EO and tell them all fixed, get informed a couple weblogic jvms are hung.. sigh.. say ok and hang up*
*connect back to vpn and execute a perl script I wrote that restarts the JVMs without any interaction*
*sit n900 in cup holder while script runs and continue on trail.*
*check n900 a few minutes later and see the JVMs are back up.. close shell, disconnect from vpn, call EO and tell them alls well again. they say thanks, i hang up, turn music back on over radio*
