Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Jonathan Matthews-Levine

On 11/30/06, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote:

 Remembering, of course, that 99%+ of the 770s sold have been,
 IMHO, *not* on contract, but with the end user paying the full retail
 price.

Why would the 770 be sold by mobile phone companies in the first place?
And if so, why would there be a service agreement tied to it?


That was sort of my *point* :-)

I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new,
interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price,
no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

Following from this *and* the 770's fairly (let's be nice :-)) /niche/
market, the 870/780/880/whatever needs to be both a compelling device
for new buyers AND a compelling upgrade for existing 770 owners!

All IMHO, of course :-)
Jonathan
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[maemo-users] OS 2006 updates announcement

2006-12-04 Thread Eyal Oren

Hi,

I recently found out (more or less by chance) that the OS 2006 was updated 
some while ago (to version 2.2006.39-14). Does anybody know of a list (or 
RSS feed) that announces such news?


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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Frantisek Dufka

Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote:


That was sort of my *point* :-)

I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new,
interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price,
no-contract-available 770 upgrade.


Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally in 
Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator. 
Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally overpriced, 
outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe companies use this but for 
average person it does not make sense. Phones and cellular operators are 
different things. Or do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also 
majority of people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and 
even have more such cards from different operators and swap them in one 
phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in Europe (or in my 
country)? I remember phones bought from operators were blocked in 
firmware to prevent using with other cellular networks but this is 
history too (maybe noone bought such phones?).


So to sum it up I don't think such artifical market exist here or is too 
important and manufacturers can produce crappy phones because of this.


Frantisek
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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Joel Dimbernat

2006/12/4, Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote:

 That was sort of my *point* :-)

 I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
 pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new,
 interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
 that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
 of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price,
 no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally in
Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator.
Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally overpriced,
outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe companies use this but for
average person it does not make sense. Phones and cellular operators are
different things. Or do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also
majority of people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and
even have more such cards from different operators and swap them in one
phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in Europe (or in my
country)? I remember phones bought from operators were blocked in
firmware to prevent using with other cellular networks but this is
history too (maybe noone bought such phones?).

So to sum it up I don't think such artifical market exist here or is too
important and manufacturers can produce crappy phones because of this.

Frantisek
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As far as I know, here, in France, most of the phones are sold by operators
with contracts.

Well, I guess the N770, since it can't be sold with contracts, doesn't fit
their needs.
Anyway It would be cool if it could be sold in stores instead of nokia's
internet shop only. If people could try it before buying it, there'd be many
more sales. Everybody who put a hand on mine felt in love with it.

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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Wolfgang Karall
Hello,

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:59 +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote:
 Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally
  in Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator. 

Just jumping in on this: here in Austria I guess 80-90% of phones are
sold by mobile operators including a contract (binding customers usually
for 24 months). The phones are usually SIM/Network-locked and also
branded by the operator, but usually way cheaper than when buying them
without contract (most low end phones are given away with the contract
for free), which is probably the reason why they do get sold that way at
all.

So this artificial market does exist, and the manufacturers do produce
crappy phones for this market, because customers don't invest money to
buy them (well, at least not directly, of course the binding contract
costs money) and will not complain as much as if they had bought it for
the retail price.

No idea about the rest of Europe (even though in .fi I remember most
people wondering about SIM-locked phones as well), so maybe it's just
the usual Austrian way of being a bit behind the times. ;)

Kind regards
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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Dave Cridland

On Mon Dec  4 10:59:27 2006, Frantisek Dufka wrote:
Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess 
generally in Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from 
mobile operator. Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are 
generally overpriced, outdated and the choice is limited.


Not in the UK, at least. In the UK, the majority of phones - 
especially higher end ones - are bought with a pay-monthly contract. 
This either lowers the price or renders the phone free, but in 
return, also locks the phone to a specific operator. I'm pretty 
sure this is a common pattern thoughout much of Europe - our 
operators include T-Mobile (so I assume the same applies in Germany), 
and Orange, which is French owned.


Even prepay phones are heavily subsidized by the operators, although 
by no means as much, and the phone selection is much more limited 
anyway.


This leads me to suspect that actually the operators could provide 
subsidized 770s, since a 770 owner is more likely to use increased 
mobile data, which in turn the operators can recoup the costs from. 
But they don't, perhaps because it's a whole new area to them that 
they'd much rather stay out of, perhaps because they perceive it as 
too much of a niche market, and perhaps because unlike the phones, 
which they can essentially customize to their services, they'd never 
have the same degree of control over the 770.


Whatever the reasons, though, this does eliminate a large selling 
tool that Nokia's phones have, which was Jonathan's point.


Dave.
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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Eloi Crespillo Itchart
[...]
 Just jumping in on this: here in Austria I guess 80-90% of phones are
 sold by mobile operators including a contract (binding customers usually
 for 24 months). The phones are usually SIM/Network-locked and also
 branded by the operator, but usually way cheaper than when buying them
 without contract (most low end phones are given away with the contract
 for free), which is probably the reason why they do get sold that way at
 all.
[...]

In Spain this is also true. People usually buy their phones branded/locked by 
operators. 

The non-locked unbranded phones are denominated free, and in the last year 
or so their are also sold in big commercial stores, so I guess their sales 
are growing a lot... but most of the people I know have a branded phone.
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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Frantisek Dufka

Wolfgang Karall wrote:

Just jumping in on this: here in Austria I guess 80-90% of phones are
sold by mobile operators including a contract (binding customers usually
for 24 months). The phones are usually SIM/Network-locked and also
branded by the operator, but usually way cheaper than when buying them
without contract (most low end phones are given away with the contract
for free), which is probably the reason why they do get sold that way at
all.


Well, so maybe we are lucky in Czech Republic after all. That number 70% 
of customers with prepaid cards I found in some press release of one 
operator here. I also found we currently have 11.45 milion active SIM 
cards (population is less that 10milion) so it means 114 active cards to 
100 people. Sim locking was used here too but it was abandoned year or 
two ago by all operators. Probably because customers hated such phones. 
It was harder to use when switching prepaid cards and harder to sell 
them second hand.


Phones are branded too which is still reason why not to buy them :-) 
They are (IMHO) cheaper only if you really call a lot (i.e being a 
businessman with expensive contract) otherwise even 'discounted' 
operator phones (even with contract) are still a bit more expensive or 
have similar price like regular ones you buy on each corner. Also young 
people switch phones like socks (I mean often :-) so new 'discounted' 
phone after two years of contract is not very attractive.


As for operators all three we have were local but were recently bought 
one by one by T-mobile, Vodafone and O2 so maybe things will get worse. 
But maybe not.


But we have similar monopolistic behaviour with banks. You pay monthly 
fee for simply having bank account and then pay for each little thing 
you do (local money transfers both for send and receive, drawing cash 
from ATM, ...). Banks were recently sold too but this still remains. One 
bank here recently cancelled fees when you receive money because some 
people wanted to annoy co-worker and told friends to send him 1CZK via 
money transfer and he had to pay hundreds (incoming fee was 5CZK) and 
balance went below zero. It was a bit medialized then :-)


But this is really off topic now :-)

Frantisek
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Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Kevin Neely
If the 870 had a pull-out keyboard, that would be compelling enough for me.  
Otherwise, I'd probably skip a generation or two.

K

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- Original message -
From: Jonathan Matthews-Levine  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Sent: Mon Dec  4 2006 04:29:32 AM EST
Subject: Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way
On 11/30/06, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote:

  Remembering, of course, that 99%+ of the 770s sold have been,
  IMHO, *not* on contract, but with the end user paying the full retail
  price.

 Why would the 770 be sold by mobile phone companies in the first place?
 And if so, why would there be a service agreement tied to it?

That was sort of my *point* :-)

I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new,
interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price,
no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

Following from this *and* the 770's fairly (let's be nice :-)) /niche/
market, the 870/780/880/whatever needs to be both a compelling device
for new buyers AND a compelling upgrade for existing 770 owners!

All IMHO, of course :-)
Jonathan
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RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Jakub.Pavelek
 That was sort of my *point* :-)

 I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
 pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new, 
 interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
 that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
 of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price, 
 no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally in
Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator.
Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally overpriced, 
outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe companies use this but for
average person it does not make sense. Phones and cellular operators are
different things. Or do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also
majority of people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and
even have more such cards from different operators and swap them in one
phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in Europe (or in my
country)? I remember phones bought from operators were blocked in 
firmware to prevent using with other cellular networks but this is
history too (maybe noone bought such phones?).

So to sum it up I don't think such artifical market exist here or is too
important and manufacturers can produce crappy phones because of this. 

Frantisek



As far as I know, here, in France, most of the phones are sold
by operators with contracts.

Well, I guess the N770, since it can't be sold with contracts,
doesn't fit their needs. 
Anyway It would be cool if it could be sold in stores instead of
nokia's internet shop only. If people could try it before buying it,
there'd be many more sales. Everybody who put a hand on mine felt in
love with it.

Joel 

Hi there,
 
The internet shop is not the only point of sale. Nokia 770 does sell in
several retail chains, for example El Corte Ingles used to have them,
CompUSA seems to have them too and I even saw them on sale at airport in
Venice;-)  However they are not on offer in the usual mobile operator
stores, with the notable exception of the Nokia Flagship Stores (AFAIK).
 
Br,
 
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[maemo-users] dependencies in maemopad+

2006-12-04 Thread Rainer Dorsch

Kemal,

I tried to install maemopad+ on a scirocco system. I am wondering now, if the 
dependency on sqlite is wrong and should be sqlite3 instead.

Thanks,
Rainer

Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1# dpkg -i maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb
Selecting previously deselected package maemopadplus.
(Reading database ... 11836 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking maemopadplus (from maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of maemopadplus:
 maemopadplus depends on sqlite (= 3.0); however:
  Package sqlite is not installed.
dpkg: error processing maemopadplus (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 maemopadplus
Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1# dpkg -s sqlite3
Package: sqlite3
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: user/misc
Installed-Size: 28
Maintainer: Cezary Jackiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: armel
Version: 3.3.8-1
Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libreadline4 (= 4.3-1), libsqlite3-0 (= 3.3.8)
Suggests: sqlite3-doc
Description: A command line interface for SQLite 3
 SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine.
 Programs that link with the SQLite library can have SQL database
 access without running a separate RDBMS process.
Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1#
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Re: [maemo-users] dependencies in maemopad+

2006-12-04 Thread Rainer Dorsch
There seems to be no problem when forcing maempad+ (i.e. it runs well):


Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1# dpkg --force-depends -i maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 11858 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace maemopadplus 0.23 (using maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement maemopadplus ...
dpkg: maemopadplus: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you 
request:
 maemopadplus depends on sqlite (= 3.0); however:
  Package sqlite is not installed.
Setting up maemopadplus (0.23) ...
Cache file created successfully.

Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1#

Thanks,
Rainer


Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 17:59 schrieb Rainer Dorsch:
 Kemal,

 I tried to install maemopad+ on a scirocco system. I am wondering now, if
 the dependency on sqlite is wrong and should be sqlite3 instead.

 Thanks,
 Rainer

 Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1# dpkg -i maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb
 Selecting previously deselected package maemopadplus.
 (Reading database ... 11836 files and directories currently installed.)
 Unpacking maemopadplus (from maemopadplus_0.23_armel.deb) ...
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of maemopadplus:
  maemopadplus depends on sqlite (= 3.0); however:
   Package sqlite is not installed.
 dpkg: error processing maemopadplus (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  maemopadplus
 Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1# dpkg -s sqlite3
 Package: sqlite3
 Status: install ok installed
 Priority: optional
 Section: user/misc
 Installed-Size: 28
 Maintainer: Cezary Jackiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Architecture: armel
 Version: 3.3.8-1
 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libreadline4 (= 4.3-1), libsqlite3-0 (=
 3.3.8) Suggests: sqlite3-doc
 Description: A command line interface for SQLite 3
  SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine.
  Programs that link with the SQLite library can have SQL database
  access without running a separate RDBMS process.
 Nokia770-39:/media/mmc1#

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RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Simon Pickering

  I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product 
  pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new, 
  interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades 
  that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed 
 up market 
  of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price, 
  no-contract-available 770 upgrade.
 
 Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess 
 generally in
 Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator.
 Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally 
 overpriced, outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe 
 companies use this but for average person it does not make 
 sense. Phones and cellular operators are different things. Or 
 do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also majority of 
 people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and even 
 have more such cards from different operators and swap them 
 in one phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in 
 Europe (or in my country)? I remember phones bought from 
 operators were blocked in firmware to prevent using with 
 other cellular networks but this is history too (maybe noone 
 bought such phones?).

Certainly everyone I know in the UK gets a phone as part of the line rental
package (or at least discounted by it) from their service provider/operator
(e.g. Vodafone, Orange, etc.). Seems like there are major differences within
Europe too (not too surprisingly).

Regards,


Simon

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Aw: RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Mathias Uebelacker
Hello
there are several stores in germany which sell the device with contracts, 
expes. with upgrades that meens that the customers have a mobile and gget the 
device cheaper.
- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: maemo-users@maemo.org
Gesendet: Mo.,  4. Dez. 2006 12:24:05 CET
Betreff: RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way
 That was sort of my *point* :-)

 I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
 pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new,
 interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
 that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
 of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price,
 no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally in
Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator.
Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally overpriced,
outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe companies use this but for
average person it does not make sense. Phones and cellular operators are
different things. Or do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also
majority of people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and
even have more such cards from different operators and swap them in one
phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in Europe (or in my
country)? I remember phones bought from operators were blocked in
firmware to prevent using with other cellular networks but this is
history too (maybe noone bought such phones?).

So to sum it up I don't think such artifical market exist here or is too
important and manufacturers can produce crappy phones because of this.

Frantisek



As far as I know, here, in France, most of the phones are sold
by operators with contracts.

Well, I guess the N770, since it can't be sold with contracts,
doesn't fit their needs.
Anyway It would be cool if it could be sold in stores instead of
nokia's internet shop only. If people could try it before buying it,
there'd be many more sales. Everybody who put a hand on mine felt in
love with it.

Joel

Hi there,

The internet shop is not the only point of sale. Nokia 770 does sell in
several retail chains, for example El Corte Ingles used to have them,
CompUSA seems to have them too and I even saw them on sale at airport in
Venice;-)  However they are not on offer in the usual mobile operator
stores, with the notable exception of the Nokia Flagship Stores (AFAIK).

Br,

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Re: [maemo-users] Crashing 770

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Lococo

Shivkumar,

... whenever I start GPE calendar after a long break it always 
crashes. It requires a second attempt to come up.


Report this at http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/.  I think that hildon may 
kill apps that take too long to start, and if you have many calendar 
entries you may be getting bitten by this.  I had a similar problem with 
my calendar when I first upgraded to ITOS2006, I believe gpe-cal was 
doing some database cleanup during the first startup that took too 
long and it was consistently crashing (or being killed) on startup.


For me, running gpe-calendar once from an xterm using run-standalone.sh 
allowed the first run to complete and I haven't had trouble since (with 
about 650 calendar entries).  You're problem may be different and/or 
unrelated, but I would try using run-standalone.sh and see if that 
improves things, and also see if Florian has anything to say.


Thanks,
Mike
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Re: RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-04 Thread Paule Ecimovic
Hi, all

This entire thread seems to be referring to the Nokia N770 as a phone, 
which it is certainly not unless one considers GoogleTalk a phone feature of 
the like of GSM and UMTS phones. The N770 is a pocket computer first and 
foremost. It does come from a company that, among other things, is well known 
for phones. 

B.R.
  - Original Message - 
  From: Mathias Uebelacker 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org 
  Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:24 PM
  Subject: Aw: RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way


  Hello
  there are several stores in germany which sell the device with contracts, 
expes. with upgrades that meens that the customers have a mobile and gget the 
device cheaper.
  - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -
  Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  An: maemo-users@maemo.org
  Gesendet: Mo.,  4. Dez. 2006 12:24:05 CET
  Betreff: RE: [maemo-users] 770 on the way
   That was sort of my *point* :-)
  
   I was attempting (badly!) to make the point that the usual product
   pattern for Nokia/SE/whoever - where they release some new, 
   interesting device and then release incremental/facelift upgrades
   that'll support themselves through the artificially buoyed up market
   of telco contracts - may not be very well suited to the full-price, 
   no-contract-available 770 upgrade.

  Are you from US? Because most people around me (and I guess generally in
  Europe) buy their phones themselves and not from mobile operator.
  Operators offer phones too, yes, but they are generally overpriced, 
  outdated and the choice is limited. Maybe companies use this but for
  average person it does not make sense. Phones and cellular operators are
  different things. Or do you buy TV from your cable/TV operator? Also
  majority of people here (70%) use prepaid cards without contract and
  even have more such cards from different operators and swap them in one
  phone. Maybe mobile market is more competitive in Europe (or in my
  country)? I remember phones bought from operators were blocked in 
  firmware to prevent using with other cellular networks but this is
  history too (maybe noone bought such phones?).

  So to sum it up I don't think such artifical market exist here or is too
  important and manufacturers can produce crappy phones because of this. 

  Frantisek



  As far as I know, here, in France, most of the phones are sold
  by operators with contracts.

  Well, I guess the N770, since it can't be sold with contracts,
  doesn't fit their needs. 
  Anyway It would be cool if it could be sold in stores instead of
  nokia's internet shop only. If people could try it before buying it,
  there'd be many more sales. Everybody who put a hand on mine felt in
  love with it.

  Joel 

  Hi there,

  The internet shop is not the only point of sale. Nokia 770 does sell in
  several retail chains, for example El Corte Ingles used to have them,
  CompUSA seems to have them too and I even saw them on sale at airport in
  Venice;-)  However they are not on offer in the usual mobile operator
  stores, with the notable exception of the Nokia Flagship Stores (AFAIK).

  Br,

  --jakub


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[maemo-users] To the Maemo-Users List Manager: Setting the default reply to: for this list

2006-12-04 Thread Paule Ecimovic
How about setting the default reply-to for the maemo-users list to 
maemo-users rather than to each individual list contributer. This way, 
replies would be posted back to the list by default rather than being sent to 
the one person to whose point/question/comment one is immediately replying.

B.R.,

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Re: [maemo-users] To the Maemo-Users List Manager: Setting the default reply to: for this list

2006-12-04 Thread Jonathan Greene

I second that ...

On 12/4/06, Paule Ecimovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



How about setting the default reply-to for the maemo-users list to
maemo-users rather than to each individual list contributer. This way,
replies would be posted back to the list by default rather than being sent
to the one person to whose point/question/comment one is immediately
replying.

B.R.,


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Re: [maemo-users] To the Maemo-Users List Manager: Setting the default reply to: for this list

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Wiktowy

On 12/4/06, Paule Ecimovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How about setting the default reply-to for the maemo-users list to
maemo-users rather than to each individual list contributer. This way,
replies would be posted back to the list by default rather than being sent
to the one person to whose point/question/comment one is immediately
replying.


I mentioned that previously and some people reacted strongly (see
thread titled Mailing list Reply-to). There are some out there that
are passionate about having automatic list-mailers not rewriting the
headers of emails. I don't care strongly enough to argue about it
though. Just be forewarned :]
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[maemo-users] Should I change repos?

2006-12-04 Thread Amichai Rotman

Hi all,

I was trying to make Canola work. I wasn't able to make it work and suddenly
I noticed the installation instructions dictate to change the repo distro to
scirocco if I have 2.2006.39-14 (which I have).

So, my question is: should I edit all mistral occurrences to scirocco?

Thanks!

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