My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

This is a call to all N900 users... when your in any public place, take your phone out (check its all clear though especially in london) and play some games, especialy angry chicken or view some crazy websites. i have been doing this for a month now and the amount of heads that turn to see or ask what phone i am using is remarkable..

example.. on saturday i was on the bus 12, saw a guy with his iPhone , i delibratly sat next to him. Wiped out the N900 logged on to BBC football site and started playing the League Cap highlights on the website in full screen. He stopped playing with his iPhone to ask me about the N900..

its the best way to advertise the phone and increase mindshare.

Post your N900 showoff experience here.

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Do you have self-esteem problems? :p

....Just kidding ofcourse :D I don't feel the need to show off my phone. :) People will find something to moan about if they really want to anyway :D

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Techtertainment,

this happens often with me.
mostly on trains and planes and airports.

i often have 2 devices and am forever switching them over and doing completely different stuff on both at the same time.
its even better now i'm playing with collaborative sketching :D

i considered getting everyone at Euston station to smile and say cheese whilst i took a photo with the phone, but i was too nervous and actually wanted a big 10 foot fake one behind me to show them what i was using ;)

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

I find in a business setting... last week I had My Mo wired up to a projector: people were most interested in how you could run video, presentations etc from something that small and nifty.

Among my friends, they expect me to have some fancy gadget so it doesnt work. :(

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Where I live, if I stop to pull out my n900 I am run over by about 10,000 iPhone touting folks busy stroking their beloved devices.

I wonder how may of them get run down in the street every year?

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Natural selection at work. ;)

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

When it comes to the iPhone, I think we need a lot more natural selection to occur. ;)

As to the OP, showing off your device a lot does help to advertise it, but that only goes just so far, because if it only runs on one cell provider here in the states, and their coverage blows (not that AT&T's is any better right now), it doesn't encourage uptake of the phone very fast. Nokia needs to make a universal 3G n900 that can run on all the major 3g networks (sprint, verizon, at&t, etc), and soon. If they do that, I'm certain you'd see the number of iPhone users die out fast.

Then again, with the new Motorola Droid and the Nexus One, the n900 is gonna have some pretty heavy competition. It's nothing I think it can't beat, as it's a better phone than the iPhone by miles, but I know most of the Android phones out there are going to give the n900 a run for its money. Now wouldn't that be wild if the two top phones in the world were both powered by Open Source operating systems running Open Source software? :D

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

I like to keep it for myself as I'm not surrounded by techy people anyway. I know one iPhone dude (nope, quite unpopular over here) but for him it's all about the bling - N900 ain't glossy :p

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

I love the whole idea of device religion:

User 1: your device is totally unusable because of Flaw A.
User 2: no it isn't, and besides, your device has had Flaw B from the beginning!
User 1: that's not a flaw, it's a feature by design. And your Flaw C is a real showstopper.
User 2: that's a feature for US! Also by design. And I can't see how any company let Flaw D into the wild.
User 1: Feature D protects users from themselves... whereas your Flaw E leads them to fatality.
User 2: well your device still sucks.
User 1: so's your mama.

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

You're missing one thing:

- user 2: you're only jealous because you cant afford it!
- user 1: you're only jealous because my device is more popular!

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Eh, yeah, there are infinite variants. ;)

Re: My fellow Maemo Lovers its Time to bite back
 

Sadly the person to whom I spent a chunk of time showing off my n900 today is in severe financial straits, so not likely to become anyone's customer any time soon. :(

The good bit is that most of the circles I move in will take a interest in my comments on the ethics of certain companies business models. Which makes Open Source a serious selling point.