Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

my n900 made me nuggets and washed my clothes .. last night it had my back when i fought with this dude in the bar , besides the fact that it pays my bills so i don't have to work :cool:

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

Is it in the repos? Can I make it War Machine because he has more guns

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

It can give you more headache

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

These are some things I have written in the past on this subject:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...-just-an-itoy/

http://www.themaemo.com/and-now-for-...iller-feature/

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...p-on-the-n900/

Another good example of things you can find on the N900 but likely not on any other similar device is lfocus. Neat little script that has blossomed into a full blown application.

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

In my opinion..
Nokia N900 with MyPaint beats any other current phone/tablet mobile sketching, drawing and painting solutions.

Because of N900 Pressure sensitivity resistive screen,
physical keyboard for shortcuts,
good display resolution,
and of course MyPaint which offer amazing brush engine,
which is just perfect for this type of touchscreen device.

Some self-centered stuff here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAUcr...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4z1s...eature=related
http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativetone/

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

Let the troll feeding commence....
Some do. I don't -- I'm already convinced that the N900 is the best phone available for me, but I don't try to sell it to people who it's probably not best for.
This is because

• I don't get a commission
• I'm not big into the "let's recruit a million helpless lusers to whine incessantly about our free software until we dumb it down to be useless for us" philosophy
• Selling a phone to someone it's not right for is ultimately bad for the platform -- more butthurtery means more negative press from the blog crowd means less sales to people whose throats it's not crammed down by proselyters.

Perhaps the only benefit to pushing N900s on unsuspecting lusers is flooding the used-N900 market to lower prices. (Although, that does make me think...)

And the possibilities are not infinite. Given 32GB of eMMC, and a 32GB microSD, there's only about 2^64,000,000,000 possibilities. There's more state than that, of course (RAM, flash, etc.) but consider it an order-of-magnitude estimate of the order-of-magnitude of the possibilities...

Anyone who says rubbish like "infinite possibilities" shouldn't be listened to; if you did, then you deserved to waste your money on whatever they were pushing, be it an N900 or anything else.

An SI boatload of phones have FM tuners these days, they all suck, and while they might be better than nothing, internet radio is better by far. So put internet radio (while doing other things -- multitasking works) down.

Very few other phones have FM transmitters, though. If you don't drive a car much (like me), maybe it doesn't help you, but it's a quite distinctive feature.


Indeed, Linux is neither distinctive nor particularly helpful. I'd be just as happy were it BSD-based. And there's tons of phones out there running Linux, just like the iPhone runs a modified BSD.

The distinctive feature here is that the N900 runs a recognizable UNIX system, unlike any other smartphone on the market. If that's useless to you, tough. It's the #1 reason I and many others got an N900 (and for that matter, it's non-phone predecessors) in the first place.

Non-distinctive anyway -- practically any smartphone can do the former, and (while I'm unaware of specifics) the latter probably involves sufficient modification to the car that it could be made to work with any phone implementing HID.

But these are "useless" to you -- did it not occur to you when listening to someone talk about infinite possibilities, that there are an inifinity of things a phone could do which would be of absolutely no use to you, and only a few things you care about?! That's exactly what they were talking about, and you're a fool if you thought "infinite possibilities" could possibly translate as "infinitely useful" -- it could mean "infinitely interesting", but probably only to a hacker.

ROFL. You ain't seen nothing till you get the Mugen Power extended battery. Now that's a brick. (Remember, the stock N900 is smaller in width and height than the iPhone... just a bit thicker and heavier because it has more hardware in it.) Either way, won't catch me throwing it, and an 80s cellphone beats it that way anyhow.


Let's see, we've got:

• internet radio
• FM transmitter (with RDS, btw)

I'd then add:

• Decent back camera (worse than some, but better than most)
• Front camera (at least in the US, very few phones have this.)
• Complete VoIP capabilities over cellular data (EDGE/UMTS/HSPA, results naturally vary by bandwidth), not just WiFi.
• Skype video calling (again, even over 3G -- although we do lack plain GSM video calling.)
• No-compromises browser that renders pages like a desktop browser, and handles as well as the best mobile browsers.
• Flash (the real thing, not flash lite)

Many of these are not unique among smartphones, but they're each fairly distinguishing, and I'm quite certain that the whole combination is unique.

O RLY?

(Hint, 2x 600 MHz is 1.2GHz -- so I guess you can point to other phones with A8s clocked at 1.2 GHz from the factory, with equivalent DSP and graphics processors....)

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

Err...I think it's because...iPhone is a better phone? Maybe that has something to do with it.

It trounces the N900 in almost every aspect.

And I despise Apple.


Nokia's last undoubtable great output was the N95 8GB, though I quite like the look of the E72/3, that is a great little phone and a really awesome sleeper that definitely hasn't got the base it deserves. This is the problem with Nokia, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, my contract is running out in October, though upgrade is available 50 days prior to that, and I'm moving sharpish. I'm sick to death of being used like a doormat by these bastards.

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

Are you sure about that?
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3...&idPhone2=2826

Didn't think so.

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

^Another case of the Aspergers right here folks. And he can't even do the numbers game right. :rajni

Re: What can the N900 do more than any other smartphone?
 

i can hide my pr0n in a hidden directory. :D