Hugo Mills wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:00:09AM +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Sep 25 at 12:10, Chris Dennis wrote: >> ... >>> Any thoughts about how LiMo compares with Android[4]? Or any of the >>> other shiny toys that are 'coming soon'[5]? >> You missed the Nokia N900[1] running Maemo[2] also comming in October. >> Several suppliers are touting it with Vodafone/O2 contracts etc and theres >> a rumour that Vodafone may be supplying it direct. >> >> Okay it's supposed to be a "web tablet" that also does phone calls. >> But if it looks like a phone and squawks like a phone... > > I've got the N800, which is two generations earlier than the > N900. It doesn't have the slide-out keyboard, the phone function, or > many of the other bits. However, it does run Maemo -- I have it > running 4.1/Diablo (the N900 runs 5.0/Freemantle). I've been > pleasantly impressed with it ever since I got it, both the hardware > and the software. > > I think I will almost certainly be getting one, although that's > conditional on being able to find a suitable deal from a mobile phone > company that does what I want, without sending my blood pressure > through the roof in the process. > > Hugo.
Thanks for that, Hugo. One question, somewhat off-topic: how well do these high-tech phones manage with accessing the internet over GPRS rather than 3G? Vodafone's 3G coverage is pretty much absent out here in the frontier-land of the Hampshire/Dorset border: will that make something like the N900 pretty-much useless? [Vodafone have a helpful map of current and planned coverage at http://maps.vodafone.co.uk/coverageviewer/web/default.aspx?configuration=vod -- which helpfully doesn't work with Firefox or Seamonkey on Linux!] cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
