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Re: Travelling with the n900

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Originally Posted by Dollyknot (Post 543406)

BTW you have spelt already wrong

thx, fixed, I often make that mistake
(btw, lets see your italian/dutch/french grammar.. ;P)

Re: Travelling with the n900

Hi Peter

To clarify something: the previous tablets (770, N800, N810) had USB OTG, so they could switch between being a host and being a peripheral.

The n900, unfortunately doesn't, but this is due to hardware. There is a very long thread about it here (as thecursedfly pointed out).

However, neopwn recently made this post regarding the possibility of creating an external usb hub that may work with the n900.

It's not that anyone has a problem with you asking about it, just that it's been (and still being) discussed to death in that other thread.

Re: Travelling with the n900

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Originally Posted by Dollyknot (Post 543327)

Then the n900 is not a true Linux smart phone after all and you know everything, how sad, not a hackers phone then, how the Nokia shareholders must be laughing at all us n900 owners with emptied wallets, nice coup Freemasonary driven capitalism, open source - don't make me laugh.

I think people here are laughing at you!

I did this thing called "research" on this networking-thing called "The Internet".

I knew about the USB limitation before I bought it. I read these things called "web pages" and "threads".

I like these "threads" because people can communicate with each other - I strongly suggest talk.maemo.org.

So I educated myself about the n900 before I bought it - that's why I am happy with it. It's not perfect but it is the closest thing to a portable Linux device and has the ability to make phone calls.

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BTW you have spelt already wrong

Are you one of the grammer nazis that post on slashdot.org?

You know what I mean - somebody will post a genuinely insightful post that actually makes you think or raises an important point. Maybe change your point-of-view.

You read the post, oblivious to the intelligence of the content and instead point out spelling mistakes of the poster.

Re: Travelling with the n900

This is more something with the openness of the hardware/baseband of the N900 than whether it is Linux or not.

Linux is most definitely running on the N900 but it can only see what is presented to it by the baseband, much like it can only see what is presented to it by the BIOS on a regular computer.