Originally Posted by rjcooke

Hello, all, my name is Rob and I'm from the Boston, MA, USA area. I had been convinced that Android was my future (once some decent hardware emerged) but then along came the N900. I'm a 770 and n810 owner. The 770 has been retired to programmable-remote duty (via custom webserver/Tira2 IR transceiver/Insteon devices) but the n810 is still used in larger capacity. I'm a long-time programmer, mostly in the Win32 realm, and I'm particularly interested in automation. Since I've joined this site while doing research on the N900 I've expanded my use of the n810 but that's resulted in, suddenly, abysmal battery life (the vampire has visited me as well, it seems). I'll leave that discussion for the appropriate thread.

Anyway, my intent is to learn me some QT and get involved in development for the n900. I haven't pre-ordered mine yet, although I'm on the verge of doing so at Amazon.

I live in iPhone hell over here and I'll be psyched to be sporting a great alternative.

Originally Posted by Kee

Hiya all! My name is Keijo and I'm a newly converted maemo fanatic. I guess the biggest reason is that I actually use a N900 now and realized that 'I'm never going back' to symbian or anything else for that matter...

I'm willing to help out with development (testing, trying out progs on the device etc) although I'm afraid I'm pretty clueless regarding linux and programming for maemo (but I intend to learn...already got the sdk running in a virtual image at home... )

//K

Originally Posted by ogahyellow

Hi. My name is Kyle, and I too am one of the N900 followers. I think it is the first phone I have ever really wanted. I am a n95 owner, and passed on the iphone due to its restrictions.

Let's see... I have some basic programming skills, and I would love to help out where I can. Maemo seems like a platform I should have known more about. I am ok with Ubuntu, I've been using it off and on over the past few years, and it is starting to make more sense to me.

Anyway... Hi everbody! And I look forward to conversing with many of you.

Regards

Originally Posted by kevloral

Hi there.

My interest in Maemo began a couple a months ago when I had to write a document comparing the several mobile platforms that are available. Of all of those that I reviewed, Maemo was the one I liked the most.

Besides, I have been wanting to buy a new mobile phone for some time, as my N95 8GB, as much as I love it, is getting a bit old. Therefore, when Nokia announced the N900, I knew that was the phone I was going to buy and registered here.

I work in the R&D department of a quite big IT company and we are investigating quite a lot about mobile services for mass transit users. I would love to see such services running on my N900. Ah, if it only had a magnetometer and J2ME support...

Kind regards.

Originally Posted by bheetebrij

I have been a lurker for some time now, but thought it was time to introduce myself properly.

My name is Bas. My main reason for being on the forum is my interest in the N900. I was already interested in the N810 some time ago, but as I am not into two device solutions, I went with a smartphone instead. The N900 has rekindled my interest in Maemo.

My recent history in smartphones is the Nokia 9500 Communicator and Nokia E71. I hope to be the proud owner of an N900 in less than a month, as I have already preordered one. I particularly like the raw power, multimedia aspects, custimaisable desktop, dashboard, browser and openness of the device.

Originally Posted by buru

Hello!

I'm Pavlo Zahozhenko aka buru, a software developer and young scientist from Ukraine. I work on Comindwork startup and I'm interested in all things web, mobile and next generation communication and collaboration platforms. I also happen to teach mobile application development course in the local university (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy); the course is dedicated to app development for J2EE and smartphone operating systems.
After N900 announcement it became clear that Nokia is serious about Maemo platform and this OS has bright future, so I'm considering adding it to my course as well.
As a geek, I'm looking forward to N900 release, so I can have full Linux distro running within my pocket

Originally Posted by Micky

Hi Guys.! Im Micky from Nokiausers.net, and also @Mickyfin & @Nokiausers on Twitter. Its good to be here, and with my N900 pre-ordered, you will be sure to see a lot more of me too