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	coderedcomputing	2011-01-20 , 14:30
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Originally Posted by tswindell

I can't believe no one has said this yet, so here's my advice. You're obviously not sure, which means you can see that the N900 is a valuable device and has potential and is a much nicer environment and ecosystem as far as community etc are concerned.

See, that is what is killing me. I greatly enjoy this place and the phone has done some great things for me thus far. ...and I also highly enjoy showing up my co-workers with their iPhone 4's (it's the 'company' phone so lots of folks here have them).

Stop installing things from extras-testing or extras-devel. Once you've flashed your device. Install your essential stuff (AIM) from normal extras repository to minimalise a sore head. Once you've reached extras capacity and you're feeling brave, maybe you see something in extras-testing or devel you like, enable those repositories, make a coffee whilst the package list updates. And one-by-one install the new potentially unstable application, test it, give your feedback if something isn't working, etc, etc.

Normally I will only pop in something I know works from testing/dev (like RDP), thus far NITDroid was my biggest *wth* why not attempt and it was fun. Sadly now, trying to get AIM to work which just feels like something that should be a basic feature, is making me reconsider this device. Similar to what ysss said, if I wanted to do this much work, I'd just have my laptop with me.

btw, AIM? You're kidding :P I don't know anyone that uses that rubbish service :P Come into the 21st century!

I know right? Sad thing is, the company I work for uses AIM and I have 180+ people in there for my work account alone, so I DO need to use it. That sold me on the N900, open contact, see all phone numbers (with Skype/SMS options), emails, and IM options via FB/AIM/Googletalk/etc/etc...it was great! EVEN with having to get the protocols from the app manager, until this new headache getting AIM to work from my last reflash on Wednesday.

I don't want to just toss it away like another flavor of the month, I've spent time getting this to work the way *I* want it to work, but it just kills me that even venturing near Nokia makes me rip my hair out.

...although that Nexus S does look...pretty.

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