Anyone else finding the N9 boring compared to N900
 

I love the sleek device but is it just me or is it quite boring compared to the N900, When the N900 was released we had devs just going bam bam bam tweaks and apps coming all over the place.

N9 doesnt seem to be getting much attention, kind of sad but do you all think it will pick up eventually or soon...

Wish i still had my N900 miss it so much.

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I think it's just the other way round. When the N900 was released there were hardly any apps and hardly developers developing for it. With the N9 the situation is a lot better IMHO (esp. with about 1000 N9 given to developers for free, compared to about 300 N900 back then).

Re: Anyone else finding the N9 boring compared to N900
 

I agree, n900 is much more fun device for a hacker/geek, n9 doesn't offer anything except more ram, which would be nice for metasploit sometimes and heavy multitasking, but is not that much advantage when compared to stuff n900 offers, and would be pretty much useless for anything else except those two thing mentioned above

I wish that I could upgrade my n900 to 512MB ram, but would never change it for n9

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It'll pick up. Things were a little slow the first few months after N900 came out.

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boring because of that damned aegis

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so if i buy a n9 i can expect for a HW keyboard to apear on it after a few months? :p

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The only thing I agree is the N9 on my hands right now is indeed boring compared to my N900 sitting on my table right now... But I have faith things will pick up. I Believe there are more developers at the N9 launch compared to the N900 launch. As an example look how long it took us to get packet injection now we full GUIs for wep cracking... Patience my friends, Aegis will be taken down.

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I loved my N900, and even whilst I still have it next to me, I know it just can't compare with the N9.

I do miss the double battery mod. The hardware keyboard. But other than battery life, I feel the N9 is a more than suitable replacement. Once Aegis has been removed, the true mods will begin.

Already we have work on creating a new homescreen, customisable like the N900's: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=5410

We have mods growing at a daily rate. See my site, www.everythingN9.com for mods for it. Other mods are here on TMO and meego handset forums.

If you ignore the Love Messages apps in the Store, there are already quite a few quality apps for the N9. And if you do buy Love Messages, I will personally roundhouse kick you.

Cordia HD is waiting for some bugs to be resolved with the Mer core, and then we may have Hildon back on the N9.

All a matter of time ;)

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I couldnt care less about apps i just love tge tweaking and hacking. Lets hope we see a good 6 months ;)

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Things that slow down is Aegis, bugs in QML and missing API as well as documentations and examples.

I.E. for my app (SleepAnalyser) I would need to be able to set an alarm (like in clock app), how ever up to now nobody was able to show how this is possible!
Also the main menu is not customisable. Like on the N900, there would be a lot of potential if Nokia would open it more.

As for Aegis, it might be something usefull, but for developers its just very annoying.
Yesterday I wanted to modify my app a bit for testing. After a reboot, Aegis hinder me to start. The only way was 8once again) to flash and reinstall everything :(
=> I really miss a tool like backupmenu.

Last but not least, I never would want to have a device without keyboard. The N950 is cool, but I wouldnt buy a N9 due lack of HW keyboard and many missing apps.

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If only N950 was available :(

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Fremantle was stillborn, but had a lot of things going for it (older Hildon and even "desktop" stuff could be ported easily, it was going to get Qt, the RX-71 was just around the corner and Maemo was going to be The Future in one form or another). Harmattan is stillborn, and the end of the line, period.

If somehow another, very popular, Qt mainstream platform (no, Symbian isn't it) emerges then the N9 might get some scraps. Otherwise, this is as more or less as good as it gets.

That's part of the problem. Freebies are no substitute for real engagement and collaboration.

Donated (loaned?) hardware aside, the N9 isn't attractive to commercial developers (the platform's burnt already), Free software lovers (much less free than earlier versions or the competition, and locked down to boot) or general techie hackers (overpriced device with too many artificial limitations). Who's left to code for it?

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Jip. N9 is all dressed up but nowhere to go...yet somehow I feel that Nokia will keep Meego/Maemo on life support, how long for depends if the company can get on the winning side again. It is early days...

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really? i find the N9 very exciting and everyday im seeing new things to play around with. i just feel sorry for my n900 which i only use to play music on my car radio :( I dont really miss my n900 and its bad battery life. strangely enough since i took the sim out of my n900 the battery seems to last for ever and ever...

i also thought that i was gonna miss the hardware keyboard but the virtual keyboard makes u feel like ur typing on a real keyboard and since i activated swype keyboard i can now type much much faster!

i love my N9!!

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Yes, boring compared to.

However thanks to the N9 being more closed than the N900, having less sharp display and especially it lacking a HWKB, I now learned to appreciate the N8 much more.

At release around 10/2010 I considered the N8 disappointing (no HWKB, E7 HWKB but no camera, internal battery, no share online, no Skype) but now I notice we are not moving forward with other devices and the N8 has matured into Anna and upcoming Belle so I chose to consolidate.

I love the hardware camera shutter button and Camera HD Pro program on the N8, the configurable desktops, the movie playback performance and general feeling of robustness.

Spend more time outside and less dwelling forums to see if anything move with the N9.

And last but not least:
Contrary to the N9, at this point in time I could just walk into a Hanoi Nokia Service Center and ask them nicely to switch my inferior purple tinted N8 display to one of the latest batch (MP40 serial if anyone interested), without discussion from Nokia side and being called delusional by other N8 fans :D

For serious mobile email typing and secure internet connections I use the N900.
Also my game Wagic does require input precision of the N900.

N9 -although I love the performance of Fennec thanks to 1GB RAM- is up for sale, will check back in a year what became of it after the Aegis has been neutralized.

I wish the N9 will not take the light away from the N900 and succes to Nemo style projects. So that both hardware N900 and N9 style platforms can co-exist and complement each other successfully.