Thread: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
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gerbick
2011-09-05 , 19:22
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Originally Posted by slaapliedje View Post
It can make and receive them. You just can't hear anything. Then again, do you really want to?
Yeah... that's quite possibly one of the highest features I want on any phone... the ability to make/receive and hear the phone calls.

I mean I hardly use my phone features at all, texting, emailing, etc. Quicker to just say "hey, we on for some LAN?" Then to have to actually talk to someone and ask how they're doing, etc.
I guess that's where we differ. I actually use my phone for voice - personal and business. And to be honest, having the needs of folks that don't use voice or the phone features dictate my usage of those features is quite annoying.

It's like me handing somebody a toilet to take a **** on, yet removing the handle since I don't like shiny objects and don't have a use for them.

If you don't use a phone for the phone features, then honestly a phone isn't what you needed. And I don't want to drop into that semantic-laden battle that a N900 isn't a phone, it's a portable computer. The moment you added the GSM radio and ability to text via a phone number and not via Google Voice or some other relay system like you can do on your computer, it became a phone.

Besides, saying that Android has Opera and Firefox isn't a plus over Maemo anyhow, since they are also on Maemo.
But their development and updates is most likely going to continue on Android - and I need improvements for HTML5. I have doubts for Maemo.

I recently bought an Android tablet, and besides the fact that NITDroid runs better on my non-overclocked N900, I would say 90% of all the Android apps are duplicates of other Apps and the other 10% are just plain garbage.
And I say that about Maemo. Too many holes too.

How about Android's complete lack of running any of the gnu utilities without rooting?
Then it was the wrong device for you then.

What about being able to multi-task without having a third party app?
Multi-tasking is great on the N900. I just don't find it all that useful when I have to switch to a phone call and it just hangs and I miss a very important phone call. Or that really... I'm not finding a lot of apps to multi-task. Browser, Maps, E-Mail (Modest sucks), Terminal (many commands there, but not GitHub/Capistrano), and... well, that's about it when I used my N900.

But yeah... multi-tasking on Android plain sucks.

Or even with a third party App, multitasking on the Android platform is like being punched in the face. Irritates the hell out of me.
Agree here. If it did work better, I'd know I'd multi-task more apps than I ever could on Maemo - more there that I'd use. Maemo is missing apps that I'd use in conjunction.

Oh, and I recently discovered 'cause of only having a tablet without 3G, that there currently is no Offline Google Maps.
Yep. Tablets are different than the phones in that respect - you were talking about the N900 and the corresponding Android phones earlier, right? Now the jump to the tablets is a bit... well, uneven. Phones have 3G + Wifi. Tablets - well, my Xoom at least - is only Wifi.

Apples to apples, oranges to oranges. I think your comparison is a bit amiss.

That is definitely one thing Nokia did right (even if the N900's version of OviMaps is missing voice activation by default)
It still had to "connect" out to "Find Places" - at least initially that was the case.
 

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