Back with Maemo
 

I been using WinMo phones for donkeys years until last November when I bought an Iphone 3GS which I been happily using jailbroken with zero issues till last month. Can't knock it excellent piece of kit, I just got bored with it.

I sold it & got a Nexus One. Great hardware specs on paper but it was unusable. Terrible 3G reception, screen alignment issues, low speaker volume, crap Google contacts & calendar implementations, just to mention a few. Sold that & got a HTC Desire but that suffered the same issues as N1 plus I hated the optical mouse.

Anyway I sold that I managed to snag a brand new N900 off ebay for a bargain £285. Now I'm not new to Maemo having previously owned both a N800 & N810, but am a bit rusty with the OS.

Hopefully I'll get along with the N900 & keep it longer than 5 days with the N1 & 8 days with the Desire.

Just a few questions...

1/ as I don't think the phone I'm getting will have the pr1.2, will it be better to upgrade to it straight out of the box?

2/ Does the pr1.2 support East Asian fonts natively (Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Thai). Just need display no need for input.

3/ Other than OVI Maps is there any other SatNav program availble for it?

Thanks

Re: Back with Maemo
 

Yes, you'll bypass any issues and won't have to battle an upgrade later.

It does.

Sygic maps, IIRC.

Re: Back with Maemo
 

I'd update to PR 1.2 before anything, with a full flash, just to be sure what you're getting is totally current. I've no idea on the fonts. :)

As for OVI Maps alternatives, theres Mappero and Sygic. Both are nice. You can find plenty of "best of" threads. The one I promote is the one I OPed, which lists solutions to common issues people have w/ the device.