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[Dov Grobgeld]

My n900 died on me! Or rather, the infamous surface mounted USB connection
broke loose so I can't charge the phone! And since I bought it in Israel
more than one year ago, there is no waranty left. :-( Meanwhile I'll order
an external charger for the battery but that is not convenient in the long
term.

:-(

Dov


On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 15:33, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Udi Finkelstein <Linux-IL at udif.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michael Vasiliev <mycroft at yandex.ru>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> 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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