Article about the phone (in hebrew):
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3770875,00.html
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Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
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Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support
their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from ..
Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier
then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
Umm, actually, pretty open..
Read this:
http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/
Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers
to be included in the
Eli Marmor wrote:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
...
Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support
their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from ..
Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier
then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.
On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
In all honesty, I would rather have a phone that works than have a
phone that runs my applications. I am much more worried about
Android's lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless
they come through the Market) than I am
geoffrey mendelson wrote:
My point is that while Shachar states that Windows Mobile is a better
development enviornment
I said no such thing! I said it was a horrible environment made even
more horrid by the move to slim appliance. What I said was that it is a
more open one.
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third
party applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am
about the fact it is running a non-standard environment.
What do you mean by Android's lack of friendliness to third party
Hi,
You have been severly misinformed.
All you need to install using USB is the free as in speech Google SDK and
USB cable that comes with the phone.
Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install
applications.
More important, you can install application by simply
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third
party applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am
about the fact it is running a non-standard environment.
What do you mean by Android's lack of
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install
applications.
The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by
default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when I
do adb devices, and cannot connect to it
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install
applications.
The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by
default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when
I do adb devices,
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to
install applications.
The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by
default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by
default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone
when I do adb devices, and cannot connect to it (let alone install
anything on it).
Not sure, but I'm guessing it might be a problem with
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB
by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone
when I do adb devices, and cannot connect to it (let alone
install anything on it).
Not sure, but I'm guessing
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Not sure, but I'm guessing it might be a problem with your setup,
rather then a Smasung imposed limit.
Are you sure you have set up the ADB udev rules correctly?
Of course not :-)
All I know is that, on my setup, the HTC worked with me having to
actually set up
On 08/30/2009 11:52 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Eli Marmor wrote:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
...
Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support
their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from ..
Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO
nokia is realeasing the N900 smartphone. which is using maemo (linux) as
it's os.
will this be a de-facto open phone, or could nokia keep it closed ?
erez.
http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=1628
http://www.h-online.com/open/Nokia-announces-N900-mobile-computer--/news/114106
Erez D wrote:
nokia is realeasing the N900 smartphone. which is using maemo (linux)
as it's os.
will this be a de-facto open phone, or could nokia keep it closed ?
In all likelyhood, the system will be more or less open (i.e. - there
will be some closed drivers), but the actual phone
Umm, actually, pretty open..
Read this:
http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/
Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers
to be included in the standard kernel.
The technology that they use is open and it's right there on
I should make it clear that my previous email was a guess based on my
experience with mobile platforms. I may well be surprised yet. Having
said that:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers
to be included in the standard kernel.
The
2009/8/29 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com:
nokia is realeasing the N900 smartphone. which is using maemo (linux) as
it's os.
will this be a de-facto open phone, or could nokia keep it closed ?
The GSM part can't be open as that's an FCC requirements. Open Moko
has the same issue.
Lior Kaplan wrote:
2009/8/29 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com:
nokia is realeasing the N900 smartphone. which is using maemo (linux) as
it's os.
will this be a de-facto open phone, or could nokia keep it closed ?
The GSM part can't be open as that's an FCC requirements. Open Moko
has the
Hi Shachar,
2009/8/29 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz:
I should make it clear that my previous email was a guess based on my
experience with mobile platforms. I may well be surprised yet. Having said
that:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted
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