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Originally Posted by ishurmer View Post
Not so sure about that, I booted into NITDroid the other day to show a couple of IPhone owners - they were quite impressed with the ease of the whole process, and these are guys who are fairly tech savvy. Also, I find it odd you are comparing an "App Killer" task manager with the N900's multitasking model, as it's not really the same thing from a technological perspective, or is it (I'm not really clued up on Android, I will freely admit)?

I'm sure it's pretty cool to be able to run Palm Pre games directly on the device with no binary modifications. Plus there was the PSGroove hack (old news now of course), which not only made lots of people go "wow", but the N900 was way ahead of the rest in terms of ports.

However, the best thing about these two is that they are homebrew modifications/ports which are only facilitated by the openness of Maemo, and the N900 itself. I mean, the N900 is coming up to 12 months old now, and it is still competing with brand new phones if you know how to look after it.

Clearly, the N900 is a phone which is aimed at a very limited sector of the market, and people have obviously been mis-sold the phone by Nokia, which I think is where the majority of valid complaints come from.
I know using a task killer as a quick task switcher seems odd, but it does work very well. I suppose I'd have to show it to you for you to really see what I mean but it's as easy as a swipe, tap and tap to switch around immediately between applications running in memory. There might be an even easier way with the LauncherPro desktop I'm using in Android, but I'm not aware of it at the moment. (I'm actually reasonably certain I saw it somewhere in there, but I'll need to peek around through the settings for a keymapping to do it.)

For the rest: Well said. I can generally agree with you on most of that--except that there really isn't a lot of Wow to the Palm platform right now either and then running Pre software is hardly a "matured" feature (as someone put it elsewhere) and appears to be rife with problems at the moment. On the other hand, the homebrew modifications are aplenty on other platforms--much moreso on the Android side where there is a PLETHORA of Linux kernel hacking in addition to themes, launchers and other feature and functions of the operating system. I've yet to see it really blossom to this level on the N900.
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