Originally Posted by jakiman

For me, yes. N900 is non-provisioning so it can't be used for my work Exchange server emails. (this started to matter this year when I changed jobs which made me look for another mobile)

It also doesn't provide the level of Korean input support (e.g. no VKB for it) so it's quite frustrating to use sometimes for me.

N900/N9 has become a paperweight to me after I got the Note. I reckon this will happen to many here if they get one and try it themselves as it can browse web better, has longer battery life, take photos/videos better, play videos/music better, play games better, ..., has more apps/games for my kids,

is more customizable in both UI/UX with less tinkering,

That just makes me upset as it seems Nokia doesn't really care much about N9/Meego/Harmattan anymore. (well, to the people that make the decisions at least)

Originally Posted by dr_frost_dk

or just plain ubuntu with homemade gui that looks like maemo, like a reverse easy debian

The "extreme" PI that plays 1080 would be nice, it has a connector to attach a LCD screen, and still has HDMI out
So with that we can pretty much use any LCD, this could mean something like the 5" HD screen.

good idea there, this will actually give a real alternative, give a choice to make your own mini laptop like i see the N900, and the PI even has LAN and such.

Originally Posted by The Wizard of Huz

I am seriously thinking about doing this. I will buy my Raspberry PI as soon as they are available. But will it be possible to use a touch lcd screen?

Originally Posted by The Wizard of Huz

How about building a phone ourselves on the Raspberry PI board? Would that be viable? Would we be able to install Maemo 5 on it without the closed source bits?

Nowadays, we get more and more features on phones, and they get less and less able to communicate with Windows e-mail servers. (Not any other type of email, mind you -- every phone out there, the N900 included, works just fine with all normal e-mail systems. Just not with Windows e-mail.)

Yeah, Nokia has been in something of a tailspin for years now, unfortunately. But I've left the iPhone world behind now, and have no interest in hopping on the Android bus. If I have to get a new phone, I'll get a cheap dumb phone. If I need to work with Exchange, I'll get a cheap netbook or something. (At least with those, I can dual-boot into Linux to get real work done.)

Originally Posted by Hurrian

By this you mean get $LINUX_DISTRO and install Fremantle Hildon-Desktop? Maemo needs a massive rework from the ground up, from the horribly written initscripts to the proprietary bits (and d-bus abuse). It's a lot better to start from a regular Desktop Linux distro, slap on the things that make Maemo look like Maemo, thus making a nice cushion of support for core components while letting devs focus on modernizing whatever components of Maemo we have (you know, like our multitasking that's still 9000 years ahead of everybody else).

Originally Posted by jakiman

Well, all iPhones, Windows Phone 7 or higher phones. Android (gingerbread or higher) phones, Symbian phones, Meego Harmattan phones (N9 at least) can all work perfectly with Exchange provisioning.

I can totally agree with leaving the iPhone world. My wife has one and no matter what, I hate it. Even my wife now wants an Android phone as iPhone is so restricted, too dependent on itunes and the screen size is way too small. (she wants minimum 4.3" now)

Originally Posted by dr_frost_dk

Yes this is something in line with what i was thinking.
Can't we also make something like this for our N900, i mean is there not some way of making a custom flash and flashing it like normal eMMC and Vanilla?, like the easy debian, but flashing only that no maemo.

Lets face it everybody maemo is awesome, but it should not be hard to transfer/make own to some barebone DIST, also it would be awesome to could go out to a log in screen and instead switching to KDE or even GNOME (if possible), maybe even some lightweight Unity for those that like it.