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Country: Netherlands
Purchased From: Media Markt EUR 319
Purchase/Arrival Date: 2008 Sep 7

Likes:
- Larger screen than a phone
- Touchscreen
- Easy to get software for
- Nice mapping apps
- Good browser (supports Flash)
- Open Source OS (Linux)
- Easy file transfer just standard tools like Putty / WinSCP / VNC, etc.

Dislikes:
- No Java
- Strange keyboard layout: digits as SHIFT-Q...P, other character at weird locations and in onscreen keypad you have to switch between digit and letter mode
- In browser sometimes tapping a link does not open it.
- Poor builtin GPS

Favorite Apps:
- Maemo mapper
- MicroB (builtin)
- VNC

Why the OS is called OS2.008 (I thought OS/2 is an IBM OS) ....