Thread: Is the N900 yet another user acceptance test device?
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2009-10-07 , 20:15
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#43
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
If anything mission-critical is missing from the currently available software, don't buy the device. Playing the waiting game for linux apps is going to be an exercise in frustration.

What is it you need that's not around, though? I browsed through the entire "Downloads" tab here yesterday and was blown away by the selection. It's thin in certain areas (reflecting the linux and gadget nerd heredity), but not by any means limited.
Except as far as I can gather most of those apps for download won't run on the n900. They're apps for the n800, and need adapting to maemo 5.

Case in point is that I really want to run a Bible programme that will be accesible offline. (I live in Cornwall, where signal isn't guaranteed and work in a hospital which is a no-gprs area). Rapier is apparently a tad challenging to get working but does the job... on the n800. The developer isn't planning to adapt it to the n900 - yes, I already asked him and he most politely replied.

If all those apps in the 'downloads' area would run freely on an n900 I'd order tonight.
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