{"id":1428,"date":"2010-01-09T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2010-01-09T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:23:50","slug":"the-nokia-n900-in-use-a-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"The Nokia N900 in use, a perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my Nokia N900 for almost 48 hours, and while I&#8217;ve have a few frustrations, I&#8217;m equally satisfied with the product. And so to keep it geeky and simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve logged into the device (not really a phone) with SSH from my desktop. And it just looks like a standard Linux system. <\/li>\n<li> I&#8217;ve logged in to my Opensolaris from the device shell (X Terminal) with SSH and that works like normal.<\/li>\n<li> I&#8217;ve connect to the VLC server on my server, with VLC, from the device, and while the navigation of the screen size differences will be &#8216;fun&#8217;, it works as expected<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve Blogged from the device using <strong>MaStory<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve sent SMS and received SMS&#8217;s, I received Phone calls. (gee)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been fetching emails, full html support (must turn off images)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve found my location with GPS. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve loaded up some songs, and they sound great with the stereo speakers<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve listened to internet radio, that works great.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve used the keyboard, and I&#8217;m getting faster the more I use it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve browsed the internet, and it&#8217;s amazing, although my blog identifies it as a PDA (must fix that)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve used the device to diagnose a neighbors laptop WiFi connection<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve taken a photo, not so great on the first try, no image stabilization, but relatively sharp<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve  managed to post a photo to my <strong>Flickr<\/strong> account. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve synced up my calendar and contacts with my Nokia 6300 backup using the Nokia PC suite (as OVI suite does not work)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve connected to AOL and Yahoo IM with the <strong>Pidgin<\/strong> application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However there is another list, of frustrations;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery life really sucks, mostly because I&#8217;ve had everything turned on (default) and have not found all the places to &#8216;tune&#8217; them to better setting.<\/li>\n<li>I can NOT get the Twitter application <strong>Mauku<\/strong> to connect to Twitter<\/li>\n<li>I can NOT get the weather with <strong>OMWeather<\/strong> it won&#8217;t connect<\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t get the <strong>MaxRoam<\/strong> SIM to dial anyone, though I could SMS<\/li>\n<li>Some Apps from the <strong>App Manager<\/strong> WILL NOT DOWNLOAD no matter what I do, and there no indication about why they won&#8217;t download<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t get the <strong>FaceBook<\/strong> application which came pre-installed, to actually install, or function. It&#8217;s the same with several of the &#8216;pre-installed&#8217; apps, they just don&#8217;t work without being &#8216;installed&#8217; and they won&#8217;t install.<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am currently using a <strong>Vodafone<\/strong> Pay-as-you-Go SIM and it does indicate that I am connected with <strong>3G<\/strong>. I have NOT tested it for dataroaming, or performance. The <strong>MaxRoam<\/strong> SIM did indicate that I was connected to a <strong>3.5G O2<\/strong> network But like I mentioned, I couldn&#8217;t call anyone, only SMS. I assume that it was my ignorance of setting for the MaxRoam SIM. <\/p>\n<p>As for the phone itself, I like it, it&#8217;s a bit heaver than I thought, but a great deal smaller, it is not really any wider or taller than a Samsung Tocco Lite, but it&#8217;s almost twice as thick. <\/p>\n<p>The keyboard is very small and not really thumb friendly, I started out using my fingernails to type. Now I can feel the contours of the keys, it sped up my typing a bit. I have a clear snap on case I bought from Amazon a month ago, but the screen section obscures the upper row on the keyboard, so I don&#8217;t have it on, so just the back is attached. <\/p>\n<p>The resistive touchscreen is very sensitive. I have a Palm T\/X and I know! It is nothing like the resistive screens of the past. There is virtual NO give to the surface, and while you can tell that it is &#8216;softer&#8217; than a capacitive touchscreen, it has a great deal more precision. Just try and draw something in the &#8216;sketch&#8217; app or better yet, the <strong>XJournal<\/strong> application.  <\/p>\n<p>Overall I could say that it&#8217;s a keeper, a Geeky keeper, and looks like it will be a learned love. It does do what I need it to do, be a computed device, with a phone in it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there will be other revelations, but I may be too busy playing with my new toy.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE : I&#8217;ve managed to get the missing <strong>FaceBook<\/strong> App to install and  <strong>Mauku<\/strong> and <strong>OMWeather<\/strong> are working after I changed some of the connection setting on device to fixed ip addresses on my WiFi router. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my Nokia N900 for almost 48 hours, and while I&#8217;ve have a few frustrations, I&#8217;m equally satisfied with the product. 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