----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua William Klubi" <[email protected]>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have a smartphone? Blackberry? iPhone? Android? > > Try a Nokia N900 Maemo device, I've had an n800 for about 3 years now. Original battery, even, though it is time for a replacement. I passed on the n810 for a bunch of reasons, though. Didn't like the carrier selection for the n900. > > Do you use it as a technical tool in your work, either for accessing > > devices or testing connectivity -- or something else? > > yes if ur a real IT person and your very well versed in terms > of knowledge and you use > gadgets then you should know it is a swiss knife among all mobile > devices. I'll use here a phrase that's current at the TV network where I work, used when someone who's getting paid to make the show suddenly discovers something everyone else in the room already knew: "Welcome to the show." > you can easily compare the difference, with N900 you don't need all > those APP markets > you have all the apps develop for Linux at your disposal, just use > apt-get and then ur done. Though as with all Application Managers, they make backout hell; I use FBreader on my n800 as probably my primary app... and the newest build has a couple of *really* nasty bugs. And it's a pain in the *ass* to go back to an older build, without getting married to every detail of how the appmgr works. Or going off the reservation, after which you'll be prompted to 'upgrade' forever... > > HTC thunderbolt is not a bad looking phone. one most important thing > > about > all the mobile > phone devices out there it is only Nokia that support full networking > stack > of IPV6 on it > no hacking needed to get it running. Note that the Thunderbolt will be an LTE700 phone, and therefore (or so I'm told) natively IPv6 on the air-interface; this will likely make that less of a problem than on older phones. Cheers, -- jra
