Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-27 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gary wrote: Matan Ziv-Av wrote: Almost all GPRS/UMTS/HSPA modems appear to the CPU as a serial device and need standard AT commands for connection management. Oh yeah -- I forgot about that. There's a way to use those modems with OS X that involve some configuration of

forgot the netbook ...

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Greene
enjoy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE -- http://jonathangreene.tel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: forgot the netbook ...

2009-08-27 Thread Adilson Oliveira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em 27-08-2009 09:09, Jonathan Greene escreveu: enjoy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE /me is salivating over it! I just hope I can buy one unlocked somewhere. As a matter of fact, won't we have a developers discount like the other ones?

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 11:11 -0500 schrieb mathew: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 15:56, Dr. Nicholas Shaw d...@docharley.com wrote: Nope. Won't run and won't be available. Well, that's a shame for Nokia, 'cause I'm not about to buy a new device unless I can verify that the

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread mathew
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 15:56, Dr. Nicholas Shaw d...@docharley.com wrote: Nope. Won't run and won't be available. Well, that's a shame for Nokia, 'cause I'm not about to buy a new device unless I can verify that the various deficiencies of the N800 OS have been fixed. Also, I doubt if it's

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread sean
Andre Klapper wrote: For your interest the Mer project aims to provide a community backport of Fremantle for N8x0 devices. See http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer for more information. andre Is support for the 900 being considered in the development of Mer? I did not see it mentioned anywhere.

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I don't understand why that's such a big deal. *all* hardware gets tossed aside eventually. Mobile just happens more often than others because the development space is so fast. If you want something that you can keep around for a while, get a big desktop. That probably has the longest

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Kevin T. Neelyktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: I don't understand why that's such a big deal.  all hardware gets tossed aside eventually. You could not be more wrong. I'm still using my Handspring Visor Deluxe every day because it does things that *no* other

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Mark wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: You could not be more wrong. I'm still using my Handspring Visor Deluxe every day because it does things that *no* other device can do, When is the last time you had a software update for these devices? -- In Vino Veritas

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Not at all. The complaint I responded to was that Nokia would drop software updates for the N900 as soon as the next hardware came out, which it may or may not do. But it doesn't really matter because the tech moves so fast, older hardware just isn't useful anymore. Maybe the Visor is fine for

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kevin T. Neelyktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: Not at all.  The complaint I responded to was that Nokia would drop software updates for the N900 as soon as the next hardware came out, which it may or may not do.  But it doesn't really matter because the tech

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread sean
Kevin T. Neely wrote: I don't understand why that's such a big deal. /all/ hardware gets tossed aside eventually. Mobile just happens more often than others because the development space is so fast. If you want something that you can keep around for a while, get a big desktop. That

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Adilson Oliveira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em 27-08-2009 18:27, sean escreveu: The wireless/Internet stuff was weak, but as a PIM and more, it could be used completely right out of the box. Palm put out updates for what seemed like ages. I truly hope Nokia adds a good PIN in it.

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-27 Thread lakestevensdental
Gary wrote: lakestevensdental wrote: You appear to be ignoring the power of numbers. Nokia's netbook, bundled with Windows will sell far more units with than without. The larger quantity sold with Windows will allow Nokia to produce sell their netbook for less than otherwise, perhaps

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-27 Thread lakestevensdental
Mark Haury wrote: lakestevensdental wrote: Mark wrote: But $25 is nothing to sneeze at. I would still rather pay $25 less and install kubuntu on the entire drive than pay $25 more and end up with dual-boot. Either way, it's still Linux I'll be using, so why should I have to pay

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Bart
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:23 -0700, Kevin T. Neely wrote: I don't understand why that's such a big deal. all hardware gets tossed aside eventually. Mobile just happens more often than others because the development space is so fast. If you want something that you can keep around for a

Duplicate contacts

2009-08-27 Thread Kahlil Johnson
hi I have an issue of duplicate contact on the maemo IM, is there a way to fix this. I still use diablo and I havent applied the latest update suite. I would love to hear this bug is fixed if I apply this update. Thanks -- Kahlil Johnson Ya tengo GMAIL!!