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Comment on Moving over to Blogger by Dawid Lorenz

Dawid Lorenz — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:03:40 +0000

I’ve been using wordpress for few years. Time for a change. :) Also, I can’t assign my own domain for free to wordpress.com blog.

Re font issues – can you send me a screenshot?

Comment on Moving over to Blogger by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:14:23 +0000

And please – change font there – current one is unreadable

Comment on Moving over to Blogger by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:13:47 +0000

Why not wordpress.com then?

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by Afro

Afro — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:51:20 +0000

I was thoroughly disappointed when I had to use a Android for a couple weeks instead of my N900. The N900 simply beats Android or Iphone in almost every respect accept for gui snappyness. Though to be far Android’s gui can be dogslow too somethings… Even worse I had android barely responding and crashing at me quite a lot.

With no package manager updating your ‘apps’ is a hellisch task. Without decent keyboard typing is simply no use. And with ‘app’ marketplace/appstore idiom your continously looking for apps at times where you just need something to work.

As a Linux user and developer the N900 gives you everything you need and more.

How many phones can basically replace >2000 dollar conference equipment ?
When my companies setup broke, I hang my N900 on the big television screen, added our skype account and presto an instant conference call replacement setup.

Yes the video is not as good as 8mp big lens camera, but we had conference calls running for an entire day on the N900 while services guys where repairing the expensive equipment :)

This is one of the strength from a phone and platform like Maemo and the N900.

That sayed… I’m still very much afraid of the future… Meego still havn’t delivered anything that is in the same ballpark as Maemo was. Also Maemo was already aging a lot when the N900 come out. Just calling something Meego 1.1 does it make it work okey…

I really really wished they did not killed maemo and moved over to moblin, it would have been much better if they rebased from Debian, removed/reworked all the closed source changes to it in favor of some opensource platform/plugin architecture to build the new ‘maemo’ on top of.

Then had the mooblin guys contribute to that project.

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by Riccardo

Riccardo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:28:05 +0000

I had to buy a new phone and I was hesitating between the two, but finally I decided for the N900. Being very similar, it is 35% cheaper, it can do skype video call (desire z does not have a front camera) and it still has a long life.

It is true that over the time Android will probably win in terms of applications and functionality (I don’t see how nokia alone can beat a software company like google), but I think it will take another year or two to have the ultimate device.

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:38:52 +0000

@gjoe:

Might not be what you want to hear, but my battery life has improved vastly since using the Titan Power kernel with ‘ideal’ profile undervolting. I’d recommend it (with warnings of course).

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by gjoe

gjoe — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:35:21 +0000

in my case, the biggest downside of my nokia n900 is the battery life. it can barely last for 4 hours after a full charge, especially if i stay online on my IM services. the other downside is on the support from applications provider, which is very low, compared to android and iPhone.

so, now i am considering either android or iPhone to replace my nokia n900. but the feature of nokia n900 that i cannot live without is the integration of IM (googletalk, facebook chat, SIP, skype etc) with the phonebook. i know there a 3rd party app for android and iPhone to serve this purpose but it doesnt integrates with the phonebook.

i guess i will stick to my nokia n900 until i find my “perfect” device.

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by joe

joe — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:52:00 +0000

right decision, I’ll be making the switch next year to a LG optimus or Nexus S. I think this migration is unstoppable since the n900 is a really good but abondoned device

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by Peter Frei

Peter Frei — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:22:48 +0000

Even though Android is based on Linux, it only runs Java applications. The majority of the open source programs available for Linux are NOT written in Java, but in programming languages like C or C++. Therefore, most standard Linux applications cannot be ported to Android. This is why applications like LaTeX or gnuplot are simply not available for Android.
On the other hand, Maemo is a true Linux system, allowing its developers to port existing applications to the mobile device with relatively little effort. The Maemo/Meego platform is the only major mobile phone OS giving this kind of freedom to its users.
As long as Java is the only programming language supported by Android, I’m not going to switch.

Comment on Nokia N900 vs. HTC Desire Z by briggs

briggs — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:20:04 +0000

I have found that after getting a few devices like the HTC G1, Htc G2, Motorola Milestone, HTC Touch2….I keep coming back to my Nokia N900, the fact is that simplicity out of the box can not be beat with Android and its apps, I have found the usefulness of the phone and all its features that no other phone has been able to match. Aside from the Codex support, front facing camera with Skype, MSN, and Google Video chat integration has not been matched by anyone, the full desktop browser, large internal memory and adding another 32gigs externally makes this device a total package. Android is a fine OS, but truthfully it has not matched my N900, you can verify this by going to Youtube.com/briggs9187 all my reviews of Android phones as well as Symbian, Maemo and IOS are there.