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On 22/04/10 22:39, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Rob Beard wrote:On 22/04/10 19:02, Gordon Henderson wrote:Nah - Get a Nokia N900 - you get root access out of the box and it runs Debian... (And you can run MeeGo on it as well as Maemo, and multitask - iPhones only just catching up :)I'd agree with Gordon on that respect, considering an iPhone 2G is well, not 3G (a friend of mine has a 2G and says it's slow), I'd certainly rather have something like an N900. Of course if someone gave me an old iPhone 2G then I wouldn't say no, just to hack Android on to it (can't think of much other use, I know lots of people rave about the iPhone but well I just don't see it myself).I'd been lusting after an N900 for some time, but finally decided to take the plunge a few weeks ago... then Nokia screwed up my order so I whinged and started to look elsewhere. I did have a good look at the iPhone and Android platforms (Motorola Droid or "Milestone" as it's known in the UK). I almost got a Droid, then I rememberd that I used to work for Motorola ;-) Ended up getting my N900 from Handtec.co.uk - even with next day before 10am delivery it was still cheaper than direct from Nokia. It's an intersting concept - definately an Internet tablet first and a phone second. You can't file TXT messages either, but it keeps them in "conversations" sort of like a twitter feed. (And there is an app. that converges TXTs, twitters and some other IM's all together with your contacts list) No need to file them I guess - with 32GB of storage avalable - although it was closer to 27GB once the fixed OS partitions were allocated. I've started to rip my own DVDs just to put something on it! And there's a few obvious blunders like no individual contact ring-tones, and the free Ovi Maps doesn't have turn by turn directions - yet (it's promised, and there's another big software relase due "real soon now") However in some ways, it's a bit more limiting than my old E90 - the screen isn't as wide, so it's more like a 60 column display than an 80 column - however that might just be the default font in it's own xterm - there are some applications that put up text that I can't read even with my reading glases on... )-: But it's growing on me :) Gordon
That's good to hear, I presume you'll be doing a mini talk for us all at the LUG meeting in May? ;-)
Rob (who looks forward to what exciting bits of kit Gordon brings to the LUG meetings)
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