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Worth buying the nokia n900 now?
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tuxsavvy
2011-10-03 , 06:37
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Nothing wrong with having a windows XP computer, you just need to be more willing to accomodate yourself to the linux environment.
Maemo can be unfriendly at times so you cannot judge maemo as a definitive source of where linux realm stands at
. Linux has become so much more friendlier to windows converts and what not. To judge only by using a maemo linux powered device as a view on linux progress as a whole would be to undermine its reputation.
kohrime: I didn't know you had a question about what I said for meego (harmattan) based device. Both N950 and N9 will have virtual keyboard as N900 did. I was told by a few lucky developers who managed to get their hands on N950 that the virtual keyboard (on screen based) is so much more nicer than that of on N900. A few claimed that it was so nice they even forgot N950 had a physical keyboard.
Unfortunately N9 will not have a physical keyboard, unlike N950 and N900 both have physical keyboard which slides out underneath from the screen the N9 will just be like a one piece type of device.
The only reason why I say its unfortuate N9 won't have a physical keyboard is that in case if one installs beta software and the software makes the virtual keyboard not appear, you are pretty much stuck not being able to enter in words (which means chatting for instance will be a no-no). In the case of N900 it was fairly easy to lose the virtual keyboard when one installs international input such as mscim.
Without a physical keyboard on N9, it would probably leave keyboard warriors (like myself) having to fork out extra money to buy a bluetooth keyboard, to carry that extra bluetooth keyboard around and hope the bluetooth keyboard works well with the device.
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