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#421
Originally Posted by Ovek View Post
Care to expand on what's missing exactly? Other than MMS of course
Video calling.

BT tethering.
 

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Originally Posted by Matan View Post
Video calling.

BT tethering.
Yeah, those are basic phone features we daily use on our S40 phones.

Video calling works over Jabber. BlueTooth DUN works after a few simple config change.
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I'm pretty sure that there will soon be some tethering available. Linux has already everything in place. Just the user interface is still missing.
The hardware for video calling is also there. If Skype doesn't want to implement video calling then gizmo or ekiga will do.
 
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
I'm pretty sure that there will soon be some tethering available. Linux has already everything in place. Just the user interface is still missing.
On Maemo, no interface required to have N900 support Bluetooth DUN so a client can use N900 over Bluetooth DUN. Only a few commands, and one could easily enable Bluetooth PAN too. WWiki entry.

Linux desktop is different story.

The hardware for video calling is also there. If Skype doesn't want to implement video calling then gizmo or ekiga will do.
Indeed. Just both sides need to babble the same protocol.
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Having had a quick look at the number of devices Nokia does, it seems they don't do any "mass market" devices, they do loads of separate devices for different markets, a different strategy to other players in the field.
As far as the N900 goes, as I said before if there was another choice I would have already bought it. There are loads of devices "similar" to the N900, but none that are in the same device class - I guess that is what makes it so good (for me) and such a emotional topic for all
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#426
Originally Posted by Krosis View Post
Hello to everyone, first post.

But of course you're not really talking of his previews...

You're commenting his tweets, where he says that a prototype crashes... and somehow you find this unbelievable, unrealistic, and want to know his hardware/software configuration...

I'm pretty sure even the final retail product will crash... and even more sure that future updates will reduce the number of crashes...

It's expected, it's normal... A user interested in a product like the N900 knows that a prototype is prone to crash... a user who doesn't understand/expect that, will probably not be the ideal target for the N900...

And I don't think anyone is "jealous" of anything, but I really don't get the reason for bashing Eldar...

He leaked a prototype? So what? Are we really so naive to be outraged? He speaks fairly highly of it, how does this damage the product?

PS:

Not really "taking sides", here... I just find that the bashing is really immotivated, and the whole "he won't tell the firmware/hardware" is basically irrilevant, given the nature of the negative aspects he points out...
Hi, welcome to the forums. Yes the reasoning behind knowing the firmware/hardware is regarding the crashing. But we'd like to know whether the crashing is because of outdated firmware or even maybe the hardware. Or is it just an issue still bugging say n900s that other developers may have. It's not as much as is it unbelievable (because frankly any device will crash, even the "legendary" iPhone and "legendary stability" of OSX and Linux has crashed before), as to why it is occuring.
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They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 

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#427
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
Yeah, those are basic phone features we daily use on our S40 phones.
I don't know about you, but I guess most NIT users use BT tethering regularly.

Video calling works over Jabber.
Video calling over Jabber works in the same way as email works for replacing MMS - no backward compatibility with a milliard UMTS users.

BlueTooth DUN works after a few simple config change.
Either it will work, or it won't. If it was really that simple, it would have been listed as a feature.
 

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Thank you for the welcome, Laughing Man...

Wanting to know why his device crashes "so often" is of course reasonable, but the tone of many posts in this thread is way too aggressive, even denigratory... it's just unjustified, in my opinion...
 

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People do get hotheaded on the internet (I'm guilty of it myself at times). Though it also didn't help when Eldar came here with a somewhat elitist attitude.

But yeah I do wish we could take out all the aggressive or flaming posts.
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They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 

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Why is it so difficult to admit that the phone component of the N900 is NOT feature-complete?

I don't care about those missing features, you don't care either... but the fact still is that they ARE missing...

Understate they're importance doesn't make them "less missing"... and yes, there is a public who use, expect and pretend those features... saying "send mail instead of mms" or "use video chat instead of video call" is of no use...

Other OSes may miss them too, but that's not really an excuse...

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