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Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
Thanks for all the info and ideas!


is there an 'official' Philippines Maemo/MeeGo/N900 Group? Perhaps we should set up an international meetup lol


Definitely!

ok to bring it mildy back on topic i'll share a N900 in the Philippines story. On a previous trip I took a yellow metered taxi from NAIA to my hotel in Makati and was wearing those baggy type of tracksuit trousers - unkown to me my N900 fell out of my pocket into the backseat of the taxi! i had no idea it was gone, checked into the hotel, and 20 mins later i got a call - the taxi driver had returned it! He refused a tip, but ofcourse I made sure he got one for his honestly and his time/petrol cost. I heard many bad things about taxi drivers in Manila, but that was a good experience.

Although.. the last taxi I took got lost on the way back from Mall of Asia, turned his car across some lanes he shouldnt have, and got picked up by the cops. So you can't win all the time
You are indeed pretty lucky. Perhaps because you're not a Filipino (no offense). If it were a local he/she would never have it back. In fairness, there had been good publicity on honest drivers in the news a couple of weeks ago (i.e. passenger left PHP70,000 cash and was returned).

As for cops, it's going to be a different story. If it were you driving and got caught, they will feast upon you for bribe money instead of having to surrender your license.

EDIT: the thread that Vetsin referred to is basically a "Filipinized" version of the TMO thread. Just a quick disclaimer, we practically read stuff from here and we share it on that thread as there are others who may not be comfortable writing/reading in English...so to set expectations as well, the langauge being used on that thread is a mix of Tagalog/English (we're practically bi-lingual speakers of the said languages).

EDIT AGAIN: Saw one of your links in your signatures, seems like you're on to learning how to program. There are currently no programmers/developers interested in the N900. I'm no programmer too but I'm interested to learn.

Last edited by topet2k12001; 2011-07-01 at 16:00.
 

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