Hello community!

This is my first intro to Maemo. Though many people do not know me yet, I have been reading these forum since day1 touching Maemo. Yet, I am as thrilling as you guys waiting for N900 coming.

There are many great developers motivating me to register, especially OneDotZero is a hit for me! I wish I could learn more from these people.

Open-source community is my long time friend. Debian Potato is my first Linux distro, and involved a few development projects on KDE (just for my joy). And trying to lure some friends to have fun with penguin (but most of my friends are FreeBSD alignment)!

-BBNS

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I'm a long time Symbian user who's been longing for a device which can do everything the Series 5(mx) could do, as well as all the modern telephony/network/multimedia gubbins. I suspect the N900 may be all that and more, and will be getting my hands on one in the next few months. I may try my hand at the development side of life next year when some current work commitments permit, despite not having done any programming since some embedded device C stuff for my degree all those many moons ago. Till then I'll be popipng up with my ha'penn'orth on the way forward for other folks' efforts...

Should probably have shown my face in here before I started asking questions!

I never even heard of Maemo till yesterday. I might well have thought you were talking about a lost clownfish... I was saving up for an SE satio. Then I happened to spot a reference to something called n900.

And now I'm here. I believe in open source - though I'm not (ever) clever enough to be a developer or progammer. I am a great one for dreaming up ideas for what things can or can't do! Being a 'people' sort of person I'm more interested in what a thing can do with connecting people.

A long, long time ago I have something called a velo. Then, after a few pdas I discovered a treo 600 - and that's when I learned what an amazing community the developer network is. I'm glad to be here - if a little lost right now!

Hello from Finland/Ireland!

I have N810 at the moment, but I'm planning to buy N900 when I visit Finland in December. I can't wait! I do some application developement, but I've been lacking a good idea to turn into an application... So many ideas have already been fulfilled! ;-)

Now that i can finally reply to threads i d like to say hello.

I never owned a mobile, as i never really needed one (well thats quite unique in my acquaintance for a 35 year old male).
Following all the linux phones coming up in the last few years i thought there will be the perfect device coming, that will break my mobilelessity (new word i just created )

And then i read of the N900, and now cant wait getting it into my hands. I wait impatient for this toy.

Just to make it complete: I am build 1974 in germany, living near cologne.

A hi from me too. Been lurking on the board for about 2 weeks now, so time to introduce.

Have been a long time nokia fan and have been using S60 phones for a while now. Recently switched to a xperia X1 (windows mobile), bad experience with carkit compatibilty and other stuff too.

Then switched to my current phone, a samsung i8910. About the same hardware as the upcomming n900, killer screen , s60, etc.

Sadly enough, disapointed with the software samsung put on the phone. It's S60, and we know S60 is aged.... but at least nokia does a decent job in making it run well and as bug free as possible. The same can NOT be said for samsung. They hold features as a stupid 3D task switcher as more important then an actually correctly functioning bluetooth implementation or bugs and other irretating features in other places. So sad... but it's got to go!

So... the n900 seems like the ultimate device. My biggest worry with it, it SAP support. Or rather rSAP. I have a built in carkit which is only able to use that protocol and I do really need it. From what I understand in the bluez project, it is beying worked on. Hope to see it soon. Seeying it's nokia carkit and protocol... I would think it arrive pretty quickly.

Anyway. Hi there! Hope to make usefull contributions in the future!

Hi,

I've registered a little while ago but never took the time to say hello. So let's correct that.

I'm a software developer, currently living in Ireland but originally from France. I've been an unashamed smartphone geek ever since I got myself a Sendo X back in 2004 (or was it 2005 ? - I can't remember). I spent the last 6 years doing .NET development (some cool projects) in the education and financial sectors. Have also been helping out a few startup projects whenever I could.

Over the last two years though, I started to realize that smarpthone software is what I really wanted to do. It took me a while to bite the bullet (it's quite comfortable to get a regular salary) but I finally gave in and quit my job. The plan is to spend the next few weeks getting familiar with development on the iPhone, Symbian and Maemo platforms (thinking of Android and WebOS too of course but I'll start with the devices I already have), then see if I can find some freelance work while working on my own apps. We'll see what happens.

Bought an N810 a few months ago out of curiosity - this is what brought me here. I was actually pleasantly surprised with what the N810 could do and how relatively easy to use it was. Still definitely not a mainstream device though. The N900 on the other side looks just amazing. This is in fact the first time I've been excited about a new smartphone since the Nokia E61 some 3 years ago (which was my first phone with a proper keyboard, proper big screen, proper web browser and wifi). Spending £500 on a N900 wouldn't be sensible at all given that I just left my job but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to resist... Plus I've got the excuse of needing one to do some development for it

I'll be at the Maemo Summit at the week-end so I'll probably see a few of you guys there. Looking forward to it. Also hope to be able to contribute a bit to the Maemo world.

Hello. I am adam917 from Philly. I have known about Maemo for a while and though it was cool to see an open mobile OS for once but held off buying any device due to the lack of a GSM/UMTS phone stack & SIM slot. I was ecstatic upon hearing about the N900 that is to be released soon and more recently, I found out that we have a new ISP player in town called Clear that has soft-launched WiMAX here. I am thinking of getting the N810 WiMAX Edition if it is worth getting. I heard a few other cities have WiMAX and so it could come in handy if I can roam whilst out of town.

I now hope to see more Maemo stuff being released in the future. :-)

Hello everyone!

Hi guys!

Im adding another swede to the mix

Been developing apps for the various smart-phones (iphone, palm, ovi, etc) for about a year now, so Im pretty fed up with all the compromises you have to accept due to the limited format and technology.

But this platform seems to have all the technical qualities I want in a phone (albeit not the openess of android to other manufacturers than nokia), and comes closest to a real computer.

In sum, it appeals to the tech-nerd in med :P

Also, Ive always put off getting into linux but this platform gives me a reason to get into it for sure.

Hopefully I can learn a lot from this community and ultimately become a contributor as well.

Cya around,
- Daniel