My n900 died on me! Or rather, the infamous surface mounted USB connection broke loose so I can't charge the phone! And since I bought it in Israel more than one year ago, there is no waranty left. :-( Meanwhile I'll order an external charger for the battery but that is not convenient in the long term.
:-( Dov On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 15:33, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding fonts, see: > > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38541 > > Generally about the n900, I can only say me too. I love the phone and its > posix/X11 environment, but I also realize that it is getting rusty. The two > major things that are bothering me is that it is sometimes too busy swapping > or whatever so that it cannot prioritize an incoming phone conversation, and > I therefore miss the call. The second problem is the battery life that makes > the battery go dead during a day if you do anything more advanced with it > than you can do with a 150 NIS Nokia phone. > > I too, have no idea where to go next. My wife just got a Galaxy S2 which is > beautiful as far as hardware is concerned (though it lacks a keyboard). I > played with the android SDK, which I didn't like very much. I wish I could > get a shell and an X-server on it! I thought about getting the N9 but of > course it is a dead horse already before it left its tracks. Still, it might > be the strongest hardware for free development in the foreseeable future. > > Dov > > 2011/8/28 Erez D <erez0...@gmail.com> > >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Udi Finkelstein <linux...@udif.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michael Vasiliev <mycr...@yandex.ru>wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote: >>>> >>> >>> >>>> > 5. meego (N9) - though about it, but once bitten from nokia - twice >>>> > shy. nokia does not even say they expect to continue with meego >>>> Not on the market yet.^W^W^W^W^WJust announced, ergo buggy. NO KEYBOARD. >>>> Say you've bricked your phone or locked it down. How are you going to >>>> bring it back without a keyboard? Personally, I don't like either wiping >>>> >>> I don't see how having or not having a keyboard has anything to do with >>> being able to revive a bricked unit. >>> The SheevaPlug has no keyboard, yet it's mini-USB connection that can >>> drive a JTAG chain to reprogram the internal flash regardless of the unit >>> state. >>> >>> off fingerprints or when a on-screen keyboard obscures the most of, >>>> already scarce, available surface. So, it's an option, as long as the >>>> company would like to open its chest of secrets. However, I would >>>> strongly consider the silently announced "brother phone" N950 instead if >>>> I were you. >>> >>> The N950 is not available for sale. >>> There were 250 units available on a long-term loan to qualified >>> developers, and then 100 more were made available on the same requirements >>> via maemo.org or meego.org or something like that. >>> You just can't buy it. >>> And even if you could, it's software would probably be in a worse state >>> than the N900's. >>> >>> Personally, I have an N900 and I don't see anything that can replace it >>> at the moment. >>> I just hope that eventually we would see Meego on someone's phone. >>> If it would break down I would look for a 2nd hand one. >>> >>> I love my N900, i am not replacing it yet, as i see no candidate yet. >> however, The screen is too small for me. I guess i can find a way to make >> the font bigger, but currently the numbers in the addressbook are in a too >> small of a font so i can't see them. I am in the denial stage so i do not >> carry reading glasses with me yet. >> >> Other issues with the N900 - i am missing new simple applications like a >> good roadmap gps app, PTT app, and other, which i installed in my wife's >> android. i saw xmltvm and alian-dalvik which i thought would give me the >> option of running android apps on the N900 (or any other linux), i even gave >> a try of trying to help in development. but i guess it is too far from being >> workable so i would need to practically do most of it myself. >> >> and the N900 is getting older technology wise - no multitouch, small >> display, old processor, no hdmi etc... >> sooner or later i will probably use my n900 as a server for somtehing (DMZ >> server, webcam, etc...). and need to get something new >> >> so if not now, the same question will pop up later ... >> >> Udi >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> >
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