Thread: Some questions before I buy the N900
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terryowen is offline terryowen
2010-06-09 , 21:14
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Unless you use Androidzoom (http://www.androidzoom.com/) or simply read an article about Android apps. They usually have a scannable QR code. You just browse on your PC, pick up your phone and run a barcode scanner on the screen and BEEP--it brings up the Android Market app with the application. Makes looking for apps and installing them instantly MUCH easier than purely browsing on the phone itself.

Just saying, it doesn't necessarily have to be tedious on the Android. Don't know if the N900 has any similar mechanisms in place.
I often would browse for programs on my work break and then have to wait until I got home to install them, so the QR codes weren't that useful for me. I would use Cyrket a lot but should have taken pics of the codes or something... Anyway, I mainly installed new programs when I had updates to existing programs, because I browsed the market at the same time. It was just my personal circumstances.

I don't think anyone needs to be a coder to use the N900 but if you are, you'll probably be happier than with some other phones who try to hide the inner workings from the user.

Terry