Re: N900 in Japan?
 

ok now I'm curious, you have to tell us what it's about:)

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

Speaking of people actually testing these things on Japanese networks, has anyone else installed the SCIM/Anthy package Kimitake has uploaded to extras-devel?

Apparently it works for him, but I can't get it to install and start up cleanly in the SDK environment. Has anyone loaded it on their phone, and did anything special have to be done to get it going?

http://kimitakeblog.net/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/scim/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/anthy/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/scim-anthy/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/hildo...-plugins-scim/

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

she is a lady that uses her womanly part to cut an inserted banana into pieces the size you would put on your cheerios for breakfast. she also has a snake that goes in there. no, she is not hot. she is kind of old and real dog too. that takes a lot of the magic out of it...
regardless, i think iv filled my freaky sh*t quota for life.

and i solved a personal mystery -if they dont take american singles, they have a coin purse on their g-string or a bowl at the foot of the stage (im not a strip club kind of guy, but i did always wonder about how they handled the smallest paper money being 1000 yen and thus too expensive to serve as a 'single'). though that could be an okinawa thing, as a lot of businesses accept american currency here, and i havent seen anywhere else on the main island that did.

soooooooo...
i guess im boned.
get a prepaid sim before getting to japan, or have a friend get a new phone and pay them for the hassle.

what the hell, japan?

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

ok , sounds ridiculas - cant be bothered with that, cant even be bothered with seeing hot birds stripe its just a tease.

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

i have been using the mscim package for about a week. it works very well, and aside from the old issue about the Sym key and virtual keyboard not working (the devs say its on their to-fix list, woohoo!), its perfect. just apt-get mscim and it will pull everything it needs.

iv been looking up words all day! fantastic and useful saturday-night words like oshiri =]

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

well this was an oddity, and yes an absolutely ridiculous one. i doubt that anyone desires anything from the banana lady except their money back =]

yeah i agree with you on the tease thing. im back at my hotel now (0245) because i was the only person in my group that didnt find the professional teasers at various snack bars utterly enthralling. its difficult for me to even be there and see it, everything they do is so fake and obvious, but no one else seems to get it.

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

agreed . i either want it for my own pleasure or not at all. i dont need it rammed down my throat all night.

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

Never mind, got it going.

It uses a very weird romanization style and input doesn't act like I expected from SCIM (or Anthy.)

For instance, to get 日 I have to type "niti." Also, it inputs showing romaji and tries to auto-convert mid-input instead of doing a swap once input is complete and I hit space.

I suppose I should look into an mscim/n900 port of Anthy, since it behaves more like I expect.

update:
It also won't activate in XChat, despite nothing being bound to ctrl+space :/

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

This is an almost-confirmation that a SoftBank SIM will work in the N900. The following Japanese shop is selling the N900 and recommends the use of a SoftBank SIM:

http://www.stf-phone.com/shopdetail/...00255/019/000/ (in Japanese)

This means, "You can use it (the N900) inside of Japan. If you use it inside of Japan, we recommend the use of SoftBank SIM cards from our shop."

Re: N900 in Japan?
 

Out of interest if anyone has taken 900 to Japan, does the GPS get a fix? And assuming you can find some maps for over there?