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[Dov Grobgeld]

Regarding fonts, see:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38541

Generally about the n900, I can only say me too. I love the phone and its
posix/X11 environment, but I also realize that it is getting rusty. The two
major things that are bothering me is that it is sometimes too busy swapping
or whatever so that it cannot prioritize an incoming phone conversation, and
I therefore miss the call. The second problem is the battery life that makes
the battery go dead during a day if you do anything more advanced with it
than you can do with a 150 NIS Nokia phone.

I too, have no idea where to go next. My wife just got a Galaxy S2 which is
beautiful as far as hardware is concerned (though it lacks a keyboard). I
played with the android SDK, which I didn't like very much. I wish I could
get a shell and an X-server on it! I thought about getting the N9 but of
course it is a dead horse already before it left its tracks. Still, it might
be the strongest hardware for free development in the foreseeable future.

Dov

2011/8/28 Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>

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> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Udi Finkelstein <Linux-IL at udif.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michael Vasiliev <mycroft at yandex.ru>wrote:
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>>> On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote:
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>>> > 5. meego (N9) - though about it, but once bitten from nokia - twice
>>> > shy. nokia does not even say they expect to continue with meego
>>> Not on the market yet.^W^W^W^W^WJust announced, ergo buggy. NO KEYBOARD.
>>> Say you've bricked your phone or locked it down. How are you going to
>>> bring it back without a keyboard? Personally, I don't like either wiping
>>>
>> I don't see how having or not having a keyboard has anything to do with
>> being able to revive a bricked unit.
>> The SheevaPlug has no keyboard, yet it's mini-USB connection that can
>> drive a JTAG chain to reprogram the internal flash regardless of the unit
>> state.
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>> off fingerprints or when a on-screen keyboard obscures the most of,
>>> already scarce, available surface. So, it's an option, as long as the
>>> company would like to open its chest of secrets. However, I would
>>> strongly consider the silently announced "brother phone" N950 instead if
>>> I were you.
>>
>> The N950 is not available for sale.
>> There were 250 units available on a long-term loan to qualified
>> developers, and then 100 more were made available on the same requirements
>> via maemo.org or meego.org or something like that.
>> You just can't buy it.
>> And even if you could, it's software would probably be in a worse state
>> than the N900's.
>>
>> Personally, I have an N900 and I don't see anything that can replace it at
>> the moment.
>> I just hope that eventually we would see Meego on someone's phone.
>> If it would break down I would look for a 2nd hand one.
>>
>> I love my N900, i am not replacing it yet, as i see no candidate yet.
> however, The screen is too small for me. I guess i can find a way to make
> the font bigger, but currently the numbers in the addressbook  are in a too
> small of a font so i can't see them. I am in the denial stage so i do not
> carry reading glasses with me yet.
>
> Other issues with the N900 - i am missing new simple applications like a
> good roadmap gps app, PTT app, and other, which i installed in my wife's
> android. i saw xmltvm and alian-dalvik which i thought would give me the
> option of running android apps on the N900 (or any other linux), i even gave
> a try of trying to help in development. but i guess it is too far from being
> workable so i would need to practically do most of it myself.
>
> and the N900 is getting older technology wise - no multitouch, small
> display, old processor, no hdmi etc...
> sooner or later i will probably use my n900 as a server for somtehing (DMZ
> server, webcam, etc...). and need to get something new
>
> so if not now, the same question will pop up later ...
>
> Udi
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