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Hi guys,

just got my N900 last week, pretty awesome and getting more awesome with advices from this forum.

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Another N900 user here. Hello to you all. :-)

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Hi all :)
Just got my N900 and having fun with it.

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Hello everyone.
Very excited to be joining this forum. I just bought a Nokia N800 on Ebay and it s for me (even with the new N900) is a marvel. But even buy it mainly because Linux study. Well this is my presentation Thanks everyone. Pidgin already installed, I have connected a Bluetooth receiver and all prefect. What I want is to install Debian Turbo with the image that is, to install full versions of Open Office type. Please show me a link of this very detailed. And I read the forum posts but not able to specify where the meeting as I install applications will be stored? in the internal or external card 2GB I have (are 2 cards)? this can be done?. Thank you.

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Hi,

I am also sort of new but I was blinded by other threads when I started and just right now seen this "Hello" thread so I've popped in to say hello!
I had several pdas and smartphones before getting a N900 and this little thing rocks!
I like it even more so after I’ve discovered it can run garnet applications I’ve used in the past on my Treo. I like emulators and VMs. Will be even happier when Wine is running natively on it as well.
So much to investigate! So little time! Husband will have to iron his own clothes in no time! LOL!
Thanks for this very helpful forum.
Cheers!:)
Wovenstringz

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Hey, pretty new here, too! ... And I need more posts to be able to send personal messages! :D

I ordered my N900 the same day I knew it existed. This happened quite late. :/ It's incredible I finally own the device I've been waiting for so long. It's my super-micro-mobile-pc. It's everything I need except a resistive multi-touch display, more RAM and USB host mode support. But I can live without these...

Cheers,
Daniel

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Hi from me too!

I've had my N900 for a few weeks now. Before this magnificent black box of linux magic I had N97 and I have to admit that I didn't have to use N900 for many minutes to just fall in love with it :-)

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Hi!

I got my n900 yesterday and still trying to wrap my head around it. The filesystem is a maze, sheesh!

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My N900 is hopefully in the mail. I've been waiting for 6 months, browsing the forums, bookmarking apps I'm planning to download, and trying to learn the ups and downs of this phone, sorry: mobile compuutah. And now I could finally afford it.

Sometimes I get worried. There's a lot of complaints and bug reporting. But then there seems to be a lot of commitment as well. (Though maybe not from Nokia.) I think it will be OK... I'm not totally unfamiliar with terminal stuff and some basic editing - I did play around with my older brother's C64 when I was a kid (20 years ago) and that taught me to think "computer" - but I have not been keeping up to date with programming since people started using PC's. The moral of this story? I guess I am just thinking out loud.

I think the open source community is clever and interesting and I am sometimes tempted to investigate all of these languages/platforms/systems people are talking about, like debian, Qt and what-have-you. But I don't think I have the time to become a real contributor... not before all the h4xxors have already moved on to the next generation. (Any female coders out there at all?)

I am looking forward to a stable psx4all to play FFIX, gonna try and find a 64emu for nostalgia. Other than that, I mostly need a calendar. An expensive, colorful calendar.

So that's a little about me, device-wise. (Oh, yes, I'm currently using a borrowed X1 and I can't stand Windows Mobile.)

Hopefully I'll get the phone sorry, mobile compu-blah, after the weekend. And then I can start the painful head-against-the-wall-banging customization process.

Cheers from Sweden,
Monster

Edit: Got it. Feel more plastic than I imagined. The X1 certainly has a more expensive feel and sturdy keyboard. But I love the crisp screen and that it plays standard video formats.

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New N900 user here. Coming from E62, E51, E71 Nokias to Maemo-powered feels great. I'm used to my home/work PC running Ubuntu, so I'm at home with Maemo. And community support is the greatest. With you guys this device will not get outdated any time soon.

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Hello everyone just got my n900 on monday thanks to the price drop at dell. I have been doing little things so far just installed a deb program and using it on the web. So far everything works great. Just my videos are a little choppy on vimeo but i am assuming that is cos of the size and quality

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hello all :)......
been following this community since sept 2009, didn't bother to register as I am pretty much a linux noob...didn't wanna bother you guys here hehe.......but have had my share of reading....and I must conclude that this is an awsome community...
and I am totally in love with maemo like most guys/dolls here....
I bought the N900 (nov 2009)for what it was advertised, and totally love it...
I do not miss portrait mode or the other short comings as some keep ranting about......feels more like a computer as it is....
have seen the meego 1.0 UI its more phone oriented.....think maemo UI is better and different than everything else ...really want a mobile computer not a smartphone

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hi I bought n900 before 15 days i like to play with it i use it for internet live internet radio and most of learning purpose because i am a programmer, i love MAEMO i played lots with symbian and android.

I am from india

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Greetings from Colombia! I got my N900 back in december and I love it! Missed a couple of things coming from an N95 but they are getting done everyday!! Despite the fact that I'm a total noob regarding LINUX, PYTHON. DEBIAN and so on ( not a noob but almost stupid) I've been learning a lot through the community...
I am just an eye surgeon so I am going to be asking (already have been) a lot of amateur questions -forgive me in advance- ... If anyone have issues with his/her eyes PM me ..in that I can help!
Cheers!!:D:D:cool:

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New N900 user here.

I've known for a while that Nokia makes great phones. But I have been with Sprint for 12 years. Never had any problems, but finally just wanted an upgrade after having some serious issues with the Palm Pre, and finding the Samsung Moment just a little too buggy for me. Sprint has always had good service, but since my Blackberry (which was great), I've had bad luck in the past year or so, and I just wanted to give something different a try.

So I figure that if I was going to do it, I was going to do it right. No iPhone for me, because I want a keyboard. So straight to the N900 it is.

I'm a 3rd-year medical student, and I use my PDA a lot. Looking stuff up, etc., and I love the potential of the N900.

I also am in buildings (hospitals) that don't get great cell signals, so I like the voip capabilities of the phone. My mother is friends with an executive for VoxCorp, so I got their service too. Works beautifully over WiFi and 3G, but is a little shaky on anything less.

So I'm switching it all over to T-Mobile, and keeping the VoxCorp for when I don't have reception.

Anyway, I think this thing has a lot of potential, and I am eagerly awaiting developers to support it in the way that they should.

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New to N900

Past uses:
1. Nokia 5230
2. Windows Mobile on Asus P527

Looking forward to participate in this community

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Hi everyone!

New Nokia user since today here. I chose it mostly for the OS, being a gnu/linux (gentoo and debian) user for years.

OK I've only had it for a couple of hours, but I find it awesome.. Can't wait to play with it some more, so I'll just stop here and put my hands on it :-D

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Lots of - we just don't usually append ">>>>FEMALE!!!<<<<" to our usernames. :D

Welcome to the mad world of Maemo! You should really start investigating - if not to help with writing application (which everybody would love you for :D), at least just because there's a lot of fun to be had when hacking your own little phone computer.

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Hello everybody!

I'm a Kubuntu user since a couple years, and Linux user even before, I don't really remember how I found this site and N900, but I liked it very much and now I've been able to buy one. I'm not programmer, but I like to learn and try new things, and I am in favor of open source movement and freedom, and that's mainly the reason I bought this device (Altough its power helped too)...

Hope to be useful,
greetings!

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Greetings from Greece.
I started with a N810 only some months ago and I was very satisfied with what I coud do. So I took the next logical step and I am now the proud owner of a N900.
Regards.

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hello......got my n900 in jan 2010....been reading the forums for sometime since november 2009.....decided to join so that i can give my opinions and asks my doubts.....from London....cheers


Orion 88

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Hello guys! I'm a college student in the U.S. and I recently bought a n900 (kinda late to the game) and i love it! I've been floating around this site for a few days and from my observations I must say this community is pretty cool (i guess by cool i mean geeky) with some surprisingly intelligent individuals. I guess the personalities here must be pretty unique if we're willing to buy an expensive, non-mainstream linux device that relies on it's members to come up with apps for it...

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helllooo world!!!
i'm a french guy who love is N900, i'm sure this community will be so helpfull!
C U everyone!

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Greetings from Northern California! Recently bought the N900 largely on Kyle Rankin's recommendation in a Linux Journal article. Spent a few weeks researching it online and finally placed the order. Amazing device. I've been using Ubuntu on several desktops and even netbooks for some time, so the N900's approach isn't entirely unfamiliar, though the interface and a few specifics are taking a bit to get used to. Will be posting on occasion when unable to find answers in the forums.

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Welcome!!!!!!!

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:o I get it. I wanted to choose a "feminine" avatar, just for visibility - so that people just don't assume that internet is all male - but I think I have to get more Karma before being allowed avatar and/or signature with my posts.


Thank you! My first "hack" was to import my old WIndows Mobile contacts by copying a script from the forum and putting it on my n900, and even though I was following instructions it feels nice to be in the terminal.

But where to start with coding? Does everybody need C++? Or is it OK to dive into this Qt thing? I guess there's a lot of guides on the netz... It'll have to be next month, when my brain has cooled down a bit.

Anyways, I'm enjoying being able to surf anytime, and my RSS feed which encouraged me to find interesting chinese blogs. I'm a China buff.

XO

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Old member returning...

I joined back in 2007 just before purchasing my n800, which I carried with me everywhere until about six months ago. Then the screen went bad and I could find no solution. The poor little guy sat on my dresser for weeks as I learned to live without him and soon stopped coming to maemo.org on a daily basis.

Wracked with withdrawal symptoms, I became a daily reader of engadget.com and pocketables.net, looking for the logical successor to my lovely little Nate. Sad thing is that while there are a lot of tablets out there, most are not available (or available yet) in the US, and none (IMHO) are a match for the Nokia product.

So I finally shopped victoriously on eBay and am now the very happy owner of an n810.

THIS FORUM is one of the reasons I bought my first Nokia tablet and a major reason I opted to buy a second. The support from the people in this forum is amazing, so if you're new to Maemo, welcome... if you own an IT, you will be glad you came in here.

DF

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The same thing happened to my N800 a year ago, but I immediately bought another new N800 on eBay. Welcome back!

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Hehe, being of the "gender doesn't matter" faction, I usually don't care whether people think we're not out there. But I found that most of them realise it once I get one of my *****y fits... :D :D :D

Don't you get the links in your control panel under "Settings & Options"? If not, I'm sure it's not related to the number of thanks, but maybe you just need 10 posts or something like that?

I'm rather sure I uploaded my avatar pretty soon after joining, so whatever the restriction is it should be easy to go past it.

I hear you! Apart from the obvious advantage of being able to change almost everything to your liking, it's this feeling of "being in control" of that little thing in your pocket that makes it such a great experience.

Well, it depends. You can either go with Qt (which sadly requires C++, but at least takes away some of it's annoyances) or with PyQt, which would offer they same functionality using Python. Or of course the GTK bindings of either language.

If you want to be "future prove", rather grasp the nettle and go with Qt and C++. It's quite amazing how easy it is do develop any N900 application from within the Qt SDK that will then work on Symbian3 phones (or your desktop) as well. And of course on MeeGo, once it's out.

Hehe, if I wasn't seriously lacking the language skills I guess I'd do the same with Korea and Japan. :D

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:D Haha! I understand your position but feel that many women would be more inclined to approach the community if there wasn't this image of a testosteron wall surrounding all things geeky.


Actually, today those links suddenly appeared. That made me feel welcomed.

Thanks for the advice on developing. Maybe I'll throw out something fun in a few months.


:o Sadly, I can only understand the ones written in english... so far.

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hi and greetings from germany :)

im playing with my n900 for some days now and im more than happy with it.

i have some experiences with linux phones because im a proud user of the openmoko freerunner for about 2 years, and im very happy that i can actually make phone calls with my n900 now. (the freerunner was sometimes more than unstable)

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Hello from a new owner

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hi! new n900 owner here!
loving it! of course I was a little intimidated by the massive device but knew that it would deliver.
first time to handle anything linux based and so far so good.... even after my daughter dunked my unit in a glass of water.

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Hi! I'm almost n900 owner (havent bought just yet, probably in a week I'll buy) and I have been reading lots of useful stuff about it on these forums... And im so glad that I found maemo.org for this kind of stuff because it has given me so much information. And I'm from the ultimate Nokia country, Finland ;)

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hello to everyone from here to send a greeting to this community. bye

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I've lurked here for quite a while and finally decided to register. Got a lot of good tips from people, so thanks!

I have both an N800 and N900. I liked the N800 a lot but kept thinking it would be cool if it had a phone in it so I could reduce the number of gadgets I carry. So the N900 was just what I was looking for. In fact, it also completely replaces my laptop for personal travel.

Been using Linux since '94, am currently a Debian user. I am a programmer, although the only programming I've done specifically for the platform was to help Tatu a little with the N800 port of Free42. On the other hand, a lot of generic C code I've written for my job seems to compile and run fine on Easy Debian.

So, anyway, hello all!

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Another new owner here. Longtime Nokia user. Love the N900. For all the bashing it takes , it serves my purpose beautifully and Im glad im not locked into any of these service providers here in the US.

This community and the forums are awesome. Most of my summer is being consumed by surfing the forums and trying to take in the amount of information in here.

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Hi everyone,
My name is Tom and I'm new here :)

a Big fan of N900 !!!

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Hi im Vic
So far i love maemo :D

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Hi kulas here! hihi.. just got mine last April 2010. =)