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So I was looking around the TMO threads and found out some of interesting facts and how n900 is way better then other phones(OS)..
So if anyone can contribute some facts about it .. so it will be helpful..
(I'm making a project on n900(maemo5) so i need some facts about it tried it in wikipedia and google but found nothing)

something lyk dis:

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Originally Posted by skykooler (Post 1152921)

Show me a phone that can do all the N900 can (run Linux natively, Android natively, boot 6+ OS's, crack WEP, vnc, run OpenOffice, root without voiding warranty ... too many to list) and then maybe. Until then, the N900 will live on.

Sorry for my writing !
I tried my best to search but couldnt find some relating to it so I thought posting here would be appropriate !
(In wiki it shows the specs of n900 i wanted how n900 is better than other phones in terms of OS,hackability / customizability etc.. )

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I don't mean this to be rude, but, you will get better responses if you

1) Try Wikipedia for a generic introduction
2) Ask specific questions, if there's something you don't understand.
3) Use conventional English - w3 d0n't d0 l33tsp34k.

Please take this advice in the constructive spirit in which it is meant. The open source community can be very welcoming, but, we have a concept usually denoted by the letters RTFM. Please research this first...

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This post may be of some help to you...

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Originally Posted by vi_ (Post 1162245)

This post may be of some help to you...

thanks now my head hurts

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@vi_
Really didn't know whether to laugh or cry on reading the post you referenced. The thought came to mind: "Who thinks like this and who believes writing like this is comprehensible or acceptable?" (with a level of outrage!). The language isn't even phonetic or using ackowledged acronyms, it's just crazy!

Thanks for bringing it to our attention as to how not to post!

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Originally Posted by vi_ (Post 1162245)

This post may be of some help to you...

Legend for even knowing that post was there!

Enjoyed that...

Although if I wrote a post like that I would be looking for a new keyboard!

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update 1st post with "felicitous" English

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Originally Posted by demolition (Post 1162250)

"Who thinks like this and who believes writing like this is comprehensible or acceptable?"

Probably this guy.

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Right, at least we now have something to talk about, thank you for clarifying. Writing this from an N900, so no links, but the principal benefit in terms of OS or customisability is the fact that the Maemo OS uses Linux, a FOSS operating system, as its core.

In terms of software, that means that millions of man/hours of work previously done on Linux can be ported easily. It also means the OS fundamentally handles multitasking and multiple desktops well, giving much more power to the UI than on (for instance) a S60 phone like the N96. Everyone uses that differently, of course.

The same fundamental truth applies to hacking and customising... such things as undervolting and overclocking weren't written from the ground up for the N900, but are made possible by the fact that it uses a relatively (for a phone) standard architecture - Linux on ARM.

The final thing that makes the difference, IMHO, is an almost unbreakable system to reflash the phone if you mess it up. This has permitted skilled users to play with their phones and develop all the clever (and not so clever) stuff.

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Originally Posted by magick777 (Post 1162273)

yeah .....

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And within not that long you're tinkering away and learing loads about Linux, from the kernel upwards. Can you even run perl or a webserver on another device sold as a phone? And you can write and run <language> programmes on device. It's great.

Concept: "3.5inch 3G tablet computer," and all that that brings to mind.
Caveat: released 2.5yrs ago so some modern harware is better or faster. Therefore, in some cases software demands are greater than its embedded capabilites (flash and embedded videos are a sore point).

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One other advantage that implied by Linux is that it provides raw access to most of the phone's hardware. A good example of this, in terms of customisation, is how the camera functionality has developed over two years.

When I first got the phone, you opened the lens cover, you got the camera and that was that. Then, somebody wrote a Flashlight application (using raw access to the LEDs), but it was a pain to switch it from the status menu after opening the lens cover. Then QR codes happened, and others started work on mBarcode, which added QR capabilities to a phone that was never designed for them. Hmm, our camera's getting pretty useful. Not to mention FrontView, which can scan a document tolerably well from a photograph. So, someone wrote a "camera lens launcher", that waits for the opening of the camera lens and offers up a menu, all I now have to do is open the camera lens and I can select camera, flashlight, QR reader or document scanner. Oh, and a whole new camera UI has been developed and released as part of the CSSU. If you want to talk customisability, the camera functionality is one to look at, because it's been pretty much completely replaced since Nokia released the phone.

Obviously, this is just one example and the guys who've been working on USB host mode, kernel-power or CSSU might be feeling a bit overlooked - it's all but impossible to cover the whole subject. However, if you're looking to do a presentation of some sort, camera functionality might be one good focus.