I am brand new to Maemo development per se, however I'm contemplating to get involved at some point once my N900 arrives. Anyway, I have very specific application in mind that would require communicating with N900's built-in cellular modem (GSM/3G) in order to obtain basic base station's cell data, such as CellID, LAC, RSSI etc.

Would that be possible at all? I can see two potential solutions:

1) Communicate with modem at /dev/ttyXXX (?) via generic AT commands, ie. AT+CREG=2, then AT+CREG? to get basic cell info. This is what I am able to do when I plug GPRS/3G USB dongle to my Fedora-powered machine.
2) Use some kind of library/API that would do the same, however I'm just guessing here. Solution found: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=381570&postcount=6

Anyone having some experience or ability to check if that works? Any input much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Just to complete this with the solution you have found in the other thread makes it easier for people to follow up when searching for this topic

Cheers Daniel

You're absolutely right, I've updated my post accordingly. :) However, anyone having any further experience is still more than welcome.