Hi All!

OK, since I found this thread, I decided to post a short (?) reply on how I use my n900.
So; let me start at the beginning: I bought mine in November 2010, after my 9 (!) years old Alcatel died (well, its’ battery died, not the phone). I spent weeks to find a phone that fits my needs (making calls, send SMS. That was all, yes…). The market was full with clever phones, I read tests about them. I almost made a wrong choice but at last I chose n900. I was new to Linux at that time, after messing with Vista (!) and changing that to Ubuntu on my laptop.
Anyway, it was quite weird to have a touch screen, but I got used to it. I loved the features, so I started playing with it. Of course I messed it up, lost some of my data, but could get some back. This was my fault (OK, transmission app did some strange things that time), but I learned a lot. First of all that I have to be careful; not just with the n900, but everything else. I started to think and see the area of informatics differently (not as if I had/have any connection to it, I’m completely newbie).
I started to discover things, as my needs flared. Tried out many-many apps, some images (pwn for example) and maybe I can say that today it reached the state I always wanted.
I use it with CSSU Stable, kernel-power, and installed many apps for pentesting (the ones that are not available is repos, I gave a try from the pwn image), as well as Easy Ubuntu. I also have backtrack5 (considering remove it) for fun (tried whether it is really possible to use it via VNC inside the n900). The n900 allows me to upscale it to 1100 MHz – use it only if I run hungry apps (pentest, Easy Ubuntu or its’ apps). For the night I scale it down to 250 MHz and turn it to offline mode. In this way the battery (original which I bought the n900 with!) still can drive the n900 for 2 days if I’m not using hungry apps for long.
Once in a week I drain the battery fully, then I remove it from the device and clear the device’s hardware to keep it clean inside and outside then plug it again until it is fully charged. I keep it in a case my girlfriend made me.
The device has everything that I ever needed, and for me freedom is everything. I can change whatever I want whenever I want… I have to say that I barely use my laptop, I passed that to my other half (my woman ). I use it as my main phone, photo machine, photo editor, entertaining system (draw, music, movie), programming device etc… It supports my life as I want it to be within a technical world. Of course it would be great to have stronger hardware, but optimizing the software can do a great job; RAM and MHz isn’t everything I think…
Besides when I read tests, user experiences about other, freshly released phones I’m amazed about the “new features”, which the n900 already have; and had 5 years ago… So I can’t find any device that possibly could replace my old n900. I’m thinking about Jolla, but I do not have the patience to test and solve everything like with the n900 in the last 4 years.
There is one little thing that I still miss: it would be great to able to run .rus maps on it (in my country the best tourist maps are available in this format. Although there is a partnership towards openstreetmap, but still not the best, as Modrana is capable to run these openstreetmap tourist maps as a layer, but the maps aren’t so detailed yet.), so I wouldn’t have to carry my old iPAQ on a trip

And of course I have to thank All of you who made this little device such a nice thing to play with!

Cheers,

jm