Tag Archive for 'n900'

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Easy (and amazing) Debian for the N900.

Published on March 19, 2010 in Hardware and Software. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it; the results are fairly spectacular…

Nokia’s N900: Not for vertical markets.

Published on March 16, 2010 in Hardware and Software. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

This is a screen grab of the Nokia N900 phone dialer. It’s the only part of this super high-powered Linux phone that has a vertically-oriented display.

And for yours truly, that’s a bit of a problem…

Desktop Linux without the desk.

Published on March 15, 2010 in Hardware and Software. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to use Nokia’s Linux phone out of the box. Today I’ll give you just a taste of what’s possible when you unlock the N900′s full potential.

Hint: All you have to do to get started is activate the Extras-devel software catalog…

My 2010 Nokia QWERTY smackdown.

Published on March 10, 2010 in Hardware. 14 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

Though I’ve mastered the art of T9 on my N86 (kinda), I’ll always have a soft spot for qwerty handsets– and seeing how I’ve got an N900 for a week or two let’s see how it fares in comparison to the rest of Nokia’s current lineup of smartphones for two-thumbs.

In other words, it’s time for a smackdown!

The wedding test.

Published on March 8, 2010 in Hardware. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

It seems to me that the perfect wedding gadget should excel at three things:

* Take excellent photos and video;
* Provide a distraction, if necessary, for long-winded speeches and such;
* Trump every other gadget at the dinner table.

So let’s see how the N900 fared…