Re: N900 features

2009-12-13 Thread John B. Holmblad
Sebas, you might want to have your client read the following recent review at the amazon.com www site: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1T7KKC62GZ5JZ/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R1T7KKC62GZ5JZ and specifically the commentary there regarding the included email client and the difficulty of getting

Re: N900 $510

2009-12-09 Thread John B. Holmblad
Mark, re your point concerning the locked price point of $200 for a high end smartphone, I should point out that that price point has now been breached by Verizon Wireless in the U.S. with their current offer of the Motorola Droid (a quite worthy competitor to the iphone) for $199.00 with a

Re: N900 battery duration

2009-11-28 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, for what it is worth. battery charge duration is appearing as an issue with the Motorola Droid as well. I have started using a Droid and I notice that I need to charge it every night, and, if I fail to do that, then the next day it runs low on battery charge. Here is the url to some

Re: Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn

2009-11-09 Thread John B. Holmblad
Gary, and speaking of which, i.e. .Everyone and their brother's cousin is jumping off the Windows Mobile ship and on to the Android platform for a multitude of reasons. I did just that today by replacing my rusting Windows Mobile 5.x handset with a Motorola (not HTC) Droid. With

N900 Delayed

2009-10-24 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, I just happened to find some news from the last day or so concerning delay in the N900 product availability. Here is the url to the Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE59M2RJ20091023?feedType=RSSfeedName=technologyNews Now, does this mean a

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-09-02 Thread John B. Holmblad
Gary, thanks for the clarification and for sharing the info about the new Verizon Wireless (EVDO/HDSPA) modem product. Regarding Verizon Wireless plans to build out their own UMTS/HSDPA/EDGE/GSM Radio Access Network in the U.S. I expect that they will do that in the 700 mhz band where they

Re: How to buy an N900 the soonest possible ?

2009-08-29 Thread John B. Holmblad
Andrre, that is probably a software developer's October, which means October 31. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * Andre Klapper wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.08.2009, 16:25 +0200 schrieb Xavier Bestel: I know, I know, it's supposed to be out in october

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-29 Thread John B. Holmblad
Mark, it was surely a RD cost driven decision for Nokia to not provide a version of Freemantle that would work on the N800 and N810. Of course, technically speaking, they could have done something to provide a back-port to older hardware, even if some Freemantle features had to be suppressed.

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-29 Thread John B. Holmblad
Gary, your response suggests that the initial release of the N900 will not support HSDPA. If that is the case then it would seem that the N900 will have poor network performance due to a bandwidth limitation when the device is used on mobile networks. I must be misinterpreting your remarks

Re: Starter Tips

2009-06-10 Thread John B. Holmblad
Sean, actually if you so choose, you could install a virtual machine environment for the Palm os and available (still beta) from the company that now owns the Palm OS intellectual property, Access. Here is the url to their www site: http://www.access-company.com What I don't know is

Video Commentary from Nokia re impact of Iphone and N97

2009-05-29 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, fyi. Some Video commentary from Nokia re Iphone, N97 and the industry in general posted on the WSJ www site: http://online.wsj.com/video/d7-nokia-ceo-on-iphone-influence-and-app-stores/AC39D1FA-D986-4610-86C5-0FC8A0DF658D.html -- Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure

[Fwd: [Novalug] SouthEast LinuxFest]

2009-05-08 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, fyi. Info concerning upcoming LInux event in the US: Clemson, South Carolina. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * Original Message Subject:[Novalug] SouthEast LinuxFest Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 23:44:56 -0400 From: greg

Re: Citibank + Iphone

2009-04-04 Thread John B. Holmblad
Jose, I think that the Citibank marketing team decided that, given the success of the iphone, it was willing to invest in a client for that platform first. It will not surprise me if we eventually see a version of this client that runs on Windows Mobile, RIM, and perhaps Android. Best

Re: Getting Easy-Debian to work

2009-04-03 Thread John B. Holmblad
...@acadiasecure.com backup email address: jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com Peter Chung wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:57 PM, John B. Holmblad jholmb...@hotmail.com wrote: Qole, I am still interested to understand how this app relates to the N800 OS. Does Debian run as an app, a VM

Re: Getting Easy-Debian to work

2009-04-02 Thread John B. Holmblad
have any more questions: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24272 (sorry for not answering sooner, I don't patrol the mailing lists as often as I should) On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:28 AM, John B. Holmblad jholmb...@hotmail.com mailto:jholmb...@hotmail.com wrote

Internet Tablet with Microsoft Windows Mobile OS?

2009-04-02 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, fyi. For those who have not already seen this, here is the url to an article that reports on Samsung's Internet Tablet product http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/first_mobile_wi.html and http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=4151 -- Best Regards,

Re: Skype for SIP + N800/N810 - Does it Work?

2009-03-31 Thread John B. Holmblad
Jonathan Greene wrote: not directly on the device, but you can use Gizmo5 to point to Skype for a call in path ... maybe that will work on the tablet if that's what you are trying to do. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM, John B. Holmblad jholmb...@hotmail.com wrote: All, I visited the Skype

Getting Easy-Debian to work

2009-03-30 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, after installing an 8g SDHC card on my N800 I decided to make use of it by downloading/installing the Turbo Easy Debian for Everyone v0.9.19 app that is available now from the maemo downloads www page. It installed successfully and it deposited apps into several app directory categories

Skype for SIP + N800/N810 - Does it Work?

2009-03-30 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, I visited the Skype for SIP beta www site whose url is: http://www.skype.com/business/form/sip-beta/ Has anyone been able to get this to work using the SIP client that is configured in the N800/N810 OS2008? It would appear that this new service from Skype is essentially a SIP

Will these features be in the G4 IT?

2009-03-23 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, fyi. Here is an interesting take on the impact of the Iphone OS 3.0 feature set on the market: http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3I0MJSGXIC4E0QSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=215901446cid=tab_art_wire Here, also, fyi is a good summary of

[maemo-users] N770 GPS Software

2006-10-23 Thread John B. Holmblad
Title: Best Regards, All, fyi. Here is the url to a new GPS software product from Navicore for the N770: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2397078895.html Here is some info from the article: It will be available as standalone software, or as a package that includes selected map areas, a

Re: [maemo-users] How to pair device with Windows XP SP2 for file transfer?

2006-08-25 Thread John B. Holmblad
Andrey/Johan, I should add that the FTP service and server built into Windows Internet Information Server (IIS) is not automatically installed with Windows XP. If you want to install it in Windows XP Professional, log on as a user with administrator privileges and then go to StartControl

Re: [maemo-users] Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?

2006-08-21 Thread John B. Holmblad
Karolina, although it does not relate specifically to the desktop, and in addition to recommendations that I have made previously, I offer the following suggestions for improvement of the 770 for consideration by Nokia. While reading this thread I discovered to my surprise that a

Re: [maemo-users] Next revision of 770 hardware - any idea when it willbe available?

2006-07-14 Thread John B. Holmblad
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Re: [maemo-users] Next revision of 770 hardware - any idea when it will be available?

2006-07-14 Thread John B. Holmblad
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[maemo-users] Next revision of 770 hardware - any idea when it will be available?

2006-07-12 Thread John B. Holmblad
Title: Best Regards, All, has Nokia given any indication of if/when the next revision of the 770 hardware will become available? If the 770 is going to be a stable ongoing member of the Nokia product portfolio, as opposed to a one shot offering, then it would be reasonable if not prudent for

[maemo-users] Nokia 770 Reviewed in Washington Post Newspaper

2006-04-17 Thread John B. Holmblad
Title: Best Regards, All, fyi, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500125.html -- Best Regards, John Holmblad ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

[maemo-users] I finally got to actually touch a Nokia 770

2006-02-27 Thread John B. Holmblad
Title: Best Regards, All, while at a local Compusa outlet near me on the hunt for something else I discovered the Nokia 770 on display. Nice! Unfortunately I can't say the same for Compusa. There was no price shown for the product or even a display indicating what it was. I simply recognized

[Fwd: Re: [maemo-users] Re: New software version with VOIP built in - Soon]

2006-02-24 Thread John B. Holmblad
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Re: [maemo-users] Re: New software version with VOIP built in - Soon

2006-02-22 Thread John B. Holmblad
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Re: [maemo-users] news reader and wpa2 queries

2006-01-04 Thread John B. Holmblad
Gary, I don't have a 770 yet otherwise I would have already tested the exact scenario you describe, that is, the 770 to an AD integrated IAS radius server. Two years ago I did extensive analysis and testing of various permutations of hw and software (mostly Microsoft) with and without WPA

[maemo-users] How about a XM Radio browser App?

2005-12-17 Thread John B. Holmblad
All, for any XM radio subscribers either in the US or, starting a few weeks ago, Canada, here is the url to a www site that works with Pocket PC and launches WM player so you can listen to the Internet accessible XM radio channels (a subset of the full channel set). It would be interesting to

Re: [maemo-users] USB Storage?

2005-11-30 Thread John B. Holmblad
Mark, I share your frustration. Furthermore, with the all of other technologies available on the market at the current price range of the 770, and MIT working on the holy grail of the $100 laptop (albeit w/o wireless) I am beginning to think the 770 may be overpriced by a large margin. For