That's because American cell companies won't sell a phone that has been locked into crappyness for some reason If ever anyone does the unlocked phone freindly network they are going to have a boggleinh influx of tech users On 9/25/09, huertanix@gmail.com wrote: > Actually it was last month. :P I said I wanted one to make iPhone users > jealous of my flash playback. Alas, there's no sign of when if at all it > will be available stateside. :( > > Sent from my BlackBerry Slowphone provided by Allfail > > -----Original Message----- > From: storkus@storkus.com > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:46:03 > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Nokia N900 > > > I'm very surprised no one has brought this device up for discussion yet! > It would appear to blow away the current Android and OpenMoko devices > by packing a 600 MHz ARM proc, 256MB DRAM, a huge wad of flash, 802.11bg > AND bluetooth, and--biggest of all--quad-band GSM AND a 3G radio > compatible with T-Mobile USA. It also has USB2 and, curiously (I don't > know exactly what it is) "TV-Out". On the software side, it runs their > distro called Maemo which, GUI-wise, has Qt at the core, though you can > still run GTK apps like its predecessor the N810. It's almost entirely > free software and hackable, one of the biggest ones that aren't is > macromedia flash being included (presumably so you can play Youtube > video--I couldn't see playing flash games on an ARM...). > > The way I (and a lot of others) see it, this is like the early OLPC's or > eeepc's in terms of horsepower and (somewhat) memory. More than one > person out there has suggested it could be used as a sort of hand-held > file server. The geek in me is going even more nuts over buying this > than the Sheevaplug since I could obviously do so much more with it. > The few reviewers that have gotten their hands on it so far were mostly > morons that obviously couldn't fathom the potential that could be > unlocked from it. For instance, the keyboard gets griped at a lot. So? > Get one of those roll-up USB keyboards from Thinkgeek: since it's a > lightweight distro (Busybox was explicitly mentioned) and (hopefully > full) kernel in there, I would presume that USBHID hasn't been neutered. > > So what do you all think? My current phone (a Motorola V3xx) is still > working ok, and the N900 is nowhere near cheap...but, damn, it's making > me drool! Should I get it or not? Are one of you planning on it? > > Mike > > P.S. Another thing not discussed here: Slackware-13's out. :) > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss