BTW no MMS on the phone. Plus some phone type features cannot be done in portrait mode. Apparently this will be rectified in Maemo 6. Plus the battery life isn't as good I hear.
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I didnt think the battery would be great, seems to be the thing with these high powered phones, even my n95 8gb only lasts a day, so I charge it every night.
thats what I was thinking and hoping
So maemo 6 is already in the works eh? slightly annoying seeing as the n900 isnt even out yet! makes me feel slightly cheated! unless the n900 is going to be upgradable??
doubt it will be upgradable. get a android device. fully upgradable. android 2.0 will be released across all current android devices soon. a testimonial on how brilliant and well thought android is
Last edited by j.o.s.h.1408; 05-11-2009 at 12:21 PM.
From my understanding it is upgradeable (can't remember where I read this). From doing a quick google I've found that it was possible to upgrade the N800 to the latest OS that came with the N810 so I'd assume the same is possible with the N900. People have also got android and windows 3.1 running on the N810.
Android is a wreck, from a technology standpoint. Oh, sure, I have an Android phone, and it's nice, and it's perfectly usable - but being Open, people have the ability to look under the hood - and under the hood, it's a real mess, certainly when it comes to app porting & development
The N900 is closer to a netbook than anything else, and maemo is a more "real" OS. Although for the life of me I don't know why they opted for Firefox's web engine rather than Webkit (Safari/Chrome)
I VERY nearly did go android and if it carrys on the way it is, i will most likely get an android device at some point in the future, I wanted a hero for months but in the end, it lacked the grunt the n900 has, it wasnt an easy decision though
once we start getting nice powerful phones with big high res screens that run on android, i'll proberly go that route, saying that lets see how i get on with maemo first! maybe, judging by some of the other comments i'll be able to install android on the n900 sometime
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2...id_mythbusters
Pay close attention to the PDF slides for technical detail, especially the bits regarding Android's libc Bionic.
Also fish around for the benchmarks showing apps written on Mono as 5x faster than those written for the Dalvik VM - and apps in C++ or C as even faster
was waiting for this but ended up getting a iphone. Guess when i upgrade next Maemo will have had all the bugs ironed out
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