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Nokia N900
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AlmightyCushion wrote: »I'm thinking it's still gonna be too expensive for me, but everytime I see this thread I start justifying the cost of it. These latest posts are making it worse.
On the off chance one of you guys get bored with yours or realise for some odd reason you despise it, you can just give it to me. 
It is pretty amazing. I bought my in an electronics shop in Austria a few days ago. The manual is tiny, only 22 pages of basic intro instructions. It didn't say half of what this thing can do.
Video out of the box is excellent quality, playing DivX totally smoothly. I put the decoders-support package on (from Maemo.org) but still can't get MKV to work, or probably more likely, the h264 that I have been using is not supported yet. I got around 1/3 of the battery used up watching a movie which was 108 minutes long, at 3/5 brightness, so potentially you'd get a good few hours on a long plane journey. The screen was crystal clear but most impressively, you could zip in and out of the media player with no OS slowdown at all.
GPS is way way way better than my previous phones that had it (Touch HD, N95 8GB). It located my position within seconds, definitely under 20, which was very impressive (might have just been a clear day). Maps were included so it didn't need to download loads of data but it still uses data for positioning (you can turn it on and off). A problem though is that you can't get accurate details on the GPS lock and signal strength.
There are four basic desktops, and sliding between them is beautifully smooth, again the video processing is light years ahead of my experience on the HD, even with Dutty's recent ROMs (the most recent one actually, I can't remember which one specifically). Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to arrange things on a grid, so they don't come up too neatly. You can put whatever you want on them, so it's just like multiple desktops in X-Windows/Linux.
Which is the next amazing thing: I didn't know you actually had an X-Term right there in the Programs. You launch it and up comes a proper Linux shell. everything works, top, ps, apt-get. It's quite bizarre and I didn't realise it until then that really, this is really a micro-Linux PC with a phone attached.
but, unlike say, the Touch HD, the phone part and comms is entirely integrated into it. To connect to protected Wifi, it supports PIN-code access Wifi Protected Mode (on most routers in the past few years). Once you setup you Skype account in conversations, you then get the option to Skype call or IM any of your contacts - the contacts list integrates them all properly and you can sort by availability.
The integrated Skype looks just like the integrated Gmail and SMS - and the interface is absolutely perfect. It's totally slick and keeps everything in Gmail style Conversations; took me a bit to realise there was no "Text Message" button as I couldn't find it in the Programs
Web browsing was also a huge step up. the resolution is as is well know great, but I didn't realise that basically the Firefox-based browser is not like some cut down mobile version, it seems to be pretty complete, right down to even being able to do Facebook chat with the tiny little chat window that is at the bottom of the screen when you are on FB. I don't know what the limits are with regard to youtube (haven't tried it yet) but that was pretty amazing I thought!
It would be nice to be able to switch between PC Suite and Mass Data on the fly, but I couldn't find a way (on the taskbar, it is not a button, just an info section, unlike the Internet Connection button), so have to unplug and replug where it gives you the option again. PC Suite seems to work fine - I had reservations after PC Suite issues and Outlook before on the N95 - syncs with Outlook perfectly and for appointments the Calendar is very high tec and draws little lines over multiple days for long appointments. You have to see it really, looks like Star Trek
There seems to be more to discover about it as I use it. Nokia don't say much in the manual except for how to start it up. The intro movie when you first load says about the same. Under no circumstances think that this is another "Windows with a Phone added on" or else "Phone with a PIM added on". It's so entirely integrated into itself yet the interface is mind bendingly excellent (e..g, you get no slowdowns like when the Touch HD is running several apps and you are scrolling through the buttons).
EDIT: Forgot to add, the basic application database from Nokia is pretty small, but once you go to maemo.org and try to download something, it asks you whether you want to add to the catalogue, and then you get a whole load of more sections and apps added. You can just download and update all apps from there automatically it seems as it keeps them all in a repository (apt-get style).0 -
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Sopcast is a media player that I use for watching live premiership football games. Basically someone in China or USA or wherever is showing the game live hooks a cable to their tv and to their pc and "streams" the footage peer to peer through Sopcast where everyone can just start up sopcast and watch the channel they are streaming for us. Thats just an example you can watch movies or whatever else also but its the number one peer to peer device for sports fans worldwide. Its simple to use. Just download sopcast takes a few minutes. Start it up and pick a channel to pley
Now thats what Im talking about
Thanks very much Rushnaldo. That sounds great.0 -
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That is brilliant.
Now, if only it was a serial cable instead of a USB......0 -
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