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2010-01-27
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Just some I can think of now:
1. MicroB
2. xterminal with root access
3. DRNOKSNES with Wiicontrol
4. Flashlight
5. mplayer + SiB with non-transcoded xvids. (with keyboard controls!)
6. FM Transmitter (Simple FMTX widget)
7. openSSH and sftp into it via wifi then transfer an MP3 and play it.
8. Just switch between apps using task switcher.
1. MicroB
2. xterminal with root access
3. DRNOKSNES with Wiicontrol
4. Flashlight
5. mplayer + SiB with non-transcoded xvids. (with keyboard controls!)
6. FM Transmitter (Simple FMTX widget)
7. openSSH and sftp into it via wifi then transfer an MP3 and play it.
8. Just switch between apps using task switcher.
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2010-01-27
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@ Auckland NZ
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Browse using Firefox with tabs, synced with weave.
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2010-01-27
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Originally Posted by maluka
That might not be a good idea if Fennec is still as slow as it was last time I used it (1 month ago). Completely uselessly slow.
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2010-01-27
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@ Po' Bo'. PA
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Originally Posted by gerbick
I concur doctor.
To a normal user, not an admin type... almost absolutely nothing listed in this thread will make an iPhone user drool with envy. Not a single one.
Want to make an impression? An all black screen with tiny white text that you can basically sudo, rm, ls and what not will not make sense to the average iPhone user. In fact, they'll not even begin to grasp what you're talking about because they have no reason to be in those areas on their desktop machines.
Trust me. I'm an N810 owner and I'm an iPhone user - but I'm not part of the Cult of iPhone/Cult of Mac type despite also being an OS X user too. The N900 is a powerful piece of kit. The Skype integration, as well as the IM integration is top notch. Multi-tasking, TRUE multi-tasking... is top notch. The home screen alerts... beats the snot out of the "push" alerts on the iPhone.
Bounce would be a great game to show the iPhone users that love games. Angry Birds is also on the iPhone, but show them that.
Want to really show off? Play a real movie in the N900. The screen just absolutely kills the iPhones. Even optimized movies (to me) have ghosting on the iPhone to a point where I do not watch any movies on the iPhone.
Then the browser. That was what had people shocked the most. Forget forcing websites to display a mobile version of a site. You get to see the full, flash enabled site in its full glory.
But I'm addressing the "average" iPhone user though... not the savvy ones. And be careful, some semi-savvy people know of VNC on the iPhone, as well as jailbroken iPhones (which is a hack) that have SSH and Terminal... but then you're no longer dealing with a typical iPhone user.
Oh... and final thing. A camera with a flash. Yeah... that kills what the iPhone has. Easily.
But terminal stuff... heh. I mean it's exciting to the geeks that use it and know what the heck it is; however to most laymen it's nothing more than an over-glorified DOS prompt.
But I will say that the N900 is already strong enough to make most people go wow anyway. And if they don't... they're hiding it from you anyway
Good luck with your endeavors. You'll probably field more questions from iPhone users than most others.
An iPhone user who would drool over anything mobile OS related will only drool over something Apple OS related...
For us regular folk I'm thinkin' TouchSearch shows the differences pretty well.
One of the draw backs of Maemo is that we can see how the sausage is made. For some reason this diminishes the perception of value to some users.
Where as an iPhone app to them must have value if it it's in the AppStore.
..at least $.99 cents worth of value if you paid for the dang thing.
Now TouchSearch has methodically developed to the point where with just a little bit of effort on the users part it can replace a great deal of the 10,000 or so iPhone apps.
After all, many iPhone "Apps" are just purpose built, glorified search engines for specific web content anyway.
...but again, you're pro'ly just going to get that eyes glazed over look from an iPhone user if you try to explain this.
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2010-01-27
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@ California, USA / Jordan
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Since I am a student.. I always show off the Almosti85 application.. Also I show off the irreco.. oh and easy-debian.. 
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BTW, try something from here
http://www.legaltorrents.com/
Load up a true arcade game, like "U.N. Squadron", in SDLMAME, (playing very respectably at 2/10 frameskips per second, I might add!).
Open the browser, go to a text-heavy site like the NYTimes or Washington Post. Activate the cursor, highlight and copy text from a webpage. Switch tasks, open up any of several available notepad apps, paste the text into the page, and save for future reference. (Ok that one's a bit old-fogey, but I frequently need to reference stuff I read without wanting to go back to the original page.)
Just play Bounce! Beautiful real 3D, plus I love the sound FX.
Ok I have never needed to best an iSkool user, but if I had to, that's what I would do.
N900.... thick like computer