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From: "Joshua William Klubi" <joshua.klubi@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> 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