maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - PR 1.3 LITTLE changes with HUGE DISAPPOINT!!!

	danramos	2010-10-27 , 08:34
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint

I sure do. And I'm surrounded in both Android and iPhone owners.

That's not to say they don't like to show their phones off to me sometimes too. But.. I suppose that's the difference between me and them and this forum. Give and take isn't actually "bad".

Having an FM transmitter to stream Pandora through clearer than the majority of after-market devices with a larger range of frequencies impresses several people. The ability to play videos in quality and formats that other phones balk at impresses people. The ability to have skype completely integrated into my contacts gets attention. The ability to quickly switch between several apps when we are debugging problems at work impresses. Using the flash as a flashlight is still brighter than any screen yet.

Many, many, little **** that I do day by day that the people I hang out with go "that's cool." Then my Android buddy pulls up full 3D WoW Armory on his phone to show off his character that I have no hope for (The armory requires Flash 10).

So yeah.. living in a world where there's actually room for differences must seem totally weird to most people on here.

With the exception of the FM transmitter and fully integrated Skype (which I really prefer not to use anyway--I'm far more of a standard SIP fan), the rest I already do (and most Androids and non-Androids can too). I can very quickly switch between my running apps (I use my app killer to do that, ironically--I don't use it to kill apps, actually). I just swipe my finger down and tap the app killer and then single-tap to switch to a running app in memory and I'm immediately in it. I also can use my dual-LED flash as a very bright, blindingly, flashlight. Additionally, I use SSH to connect home and I've got my Linux command line to manage boxes, plus OpenVPN in Android to connect home and manage my torrent boxes and so on. Seems like a lot of very common functionality in most smart phones these days.

Just seems kinda.. meh, so far. Then there's the N900 lack of support and additional features, bug fixes, etc. on a steady basis as well as the fact that there's a LOT of kernel hacking going on in the Android world whereas I don't really hear about a lot of customization or any kind of impressive hacking in the N900 realm outside of CPU frequency hacking (which my Droid already does too).

But anyway, just seems weird to hear anyone go "Wow!" at an N900 these days... but then if I can get any "Wow!"s for a Droid 1, I suppose an N900 can too to some degree.

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