Thread: I love the N900 but...
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2011-04-12 , 17:43
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#29
Originally Posted by nology View Post
i bought my n900 in february (ie I am a maemo noob) and within one week I was able to flash the phone incl. emmc with my Windows 7 64bit pc. All I did was google it, follow the instructions I found, and flashed it in one try without any problems at all.

I just think N900 is not for everyone.. and sadly most ppl dont realize until its too late. From the phone was first released, I knew it was an enthusiast phone (hence the open source os) and there was always the possibility maemo wouldnt become a mainstream. all of this i got from just researching.
I completely agree with you, the N900 was and always will be an experimental phone. I bought it knowing full well what it could (and could not do) and I still love it. I also owned an N800 and two N810s, so I am NOT new to Maemo or to the flasher utility. Go back and read the thread I linked. For some people (myself included) all the instructions failed, even if they were followed to the letter.

Now what I don't understand is how do your abilities to search the net and to bypass bugs relate to the fact Nokia dropped the N900 support a long time ago? That was my main point, not the fact that flashing may or may not work in Win 7 64bit. Nokia sold a buggy phone and stopped releasing fixes, some of which have been reported months before development stopped. Have I not made that clear?