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garyc2010	2010-07-30 , 19:33
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Originally Posted by frostbyte

Gary, it's unfortunate your experience with the N900 was short-lived and marred with disappointments. But, if I may ask, what did you buy the phone for? Did you use it for programming/devel or just to make the two phone calls?

I'm on the n00b-end of the spectrum, eagerly learning about Linux/Debian both on and off the mobile market and I have to say my 4 mos with the N900 have been a quite opposite to your experience. I can't count the hours I've spent hacking the phone; read: fun! Yes, I made a few phone calls also.

Frankly, I don't think I'll ever go back to a "smartphone." As long as there is Maemo/Meego or any other open source mobile OS, I'll be using it.

About Android's open source: Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, paraphrasing Henry Ford, saying, "anyone can have Android in their own colour as long as it’s black."

" I can't count the hours I've spent hacking the phone"

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But what if I want to make a simple phone call, I drive a BMW 635i but my n900 wont show transfer contacts over iDrive......

so what your suggesting is when I get a VITAL business call that may be worth £20k I should

a) Hang up on the caller
b) Use my 900 while driving and kill myself
c) hack the phone while driving, and hack it so the blutooth stack can communicate with my iDrive the SAME way mt £50 NOKIA can

as I posted before I really do *laugh* at these "linux experts", they have NEVER wrote a line of code in their life, they dont know what CPU registers are, but yet they *hack* their n900 ie editing a text file........................

If I had my way **** X, a simple terminal on boot and use the hayes modem commands to make/recieve phone calls......

only dicks need gnome/kde etc...............

" I can't count the hours I've spent hacking the phone"

hahahh tell me again how you have "hacked" the n900 please.......................did you get a hardware address map and hack the OS to write directly to the hardware ?????? Id love to know your definition of "hacking the n900"....................