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Originally Posted by coderedcomputing View Post
Greetings folks,

I have been looking at a NIT over the last few years, I have yet to purchase one and since the debut of the n900 I am quite glad I did not purchase the n810 last year when my previous PDA nearly gave out.

I have a moderate amount of unix experience in both Solaris and RedHat/SuSe/Debian but primarily Windows in daily life. I have been very much out of the smartphone market for years and only use a very old Nokia candy bar cell phone, along with my very outdated and hardly useable Axim X3i.

Based on that, does anyone have any suggestions regarding the n900 that I can/should look at prior to purchasing one? I have some amazon gift cash and will most likely have more after the holidays so I plan to get an unlocked n900 but I want to get as familiar as possible with this NIT before I plunk down any money.

Desired use of this NIT would be as an mp3 player, phone, internet browsing, gmail, and txt. If the GPS is reliable enough I would love to use it vs. buying another device, though I usually know where I'm going most days.

I'd appreciate any advice, links, redirects to relevant threads (new to maemo.org as well) and the like.
Welcome.

A good place to start would be the wiki for the N900 it has some of the information you asked about.
Coming from a UNIX background like you do I think you would find the N900 a great fit, purely from a "Hey it has command line - what can i do from here" point of view.
As far as using the N900 as a GPS - its not really viable right now - Ovi maps which comes with the unit is - to put it mildly - a let down. That being said http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/pr...mo-phones.html reveals that a third party is making a turn by turn app for the N900 and by all accounts this company does good work.

Everything else you mention should be easily covered by the N900, there are some issues with playlist generation etc for the media app - but with porting of mplayer and vlc I believe they will be non issues shortly
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