Thread: Complaint of the week: I have a N800 and I am not dead yet
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2009-12-17 , 04:35
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
To clarify my novelty statement: I think the N900 novelty will wear off,
I undertood that by “novelty” you mean discussions about price, availability and “oh, it shines!” I am certainly eager to see that ending. But someone might understand you are talking about a more general and sophisticated feeling of excitement with the device and its possibilities. I have not lost this feeling with my own N800 yet... So for those who might have gotten the impression we are talking about people losing their interest for their devices, rest assured we believe this is impossible (I hope I am talking for qole here...)

I'm already seeing people asking more of the usual Maemo questions again ("How do I get sshfs running?")
That sentence was music to my ears.


and there already seems to be a lot less of the whinging and moaning from the smartphone users going on.
Not to mention users from older devices!

And as for the "incompatibility" questions... again, what specifically are you referring to? Is it the fact that the N900 has hardware features that the N8x0 doesn't have? Or are there apps that you wish you had for the N8x0 that are only found on the N900 (that aren't hardware dependent)?
Thank you so much for this high quality question!

I mean by no means hardware-related incompatibilities. I have lived with the lack of keyboard and GPS so far, and I can sure accept that my N800 will not start making calls even if I managed to run Maemo 5 in it.

I can also live with the fact that some programs will be just too heavy to run in a less powerful processor. When I run GIMP on my Pentium 3 I don't whine about it being sluggish, I just feel grateful for having been able to try at all. And I feel good when I notice, for example, that I can still update the GIMP in this old machine of mine and use the new Lanczos scaling algorithm instead of just cubic...

I am not looking for a strictly-N8x0 forum. What I want is to see threads that are relevant to me. We must exercise what exists in common in all our devices.

There are small problems in Diablo that I bet N900 users will also have. We must make sure we will all work together to solve them... More users = more contributions and more people benefiting from contributions.

The whole concept that “Maemo 5 is a new version that will not run in N8x0” sounds alien to my Linux ears. It should have been “Maemo 5 will come with a fancy desktop that N8x0 users should ignore.” It's a pity that to show that we must have all the work of building Mer...

Before finishing: I am very happy with all the feedback. The forum is alive and kicking afterall!
Last edited by nwerneck; 2009-12-17 at 21:59.