Nokia N900 query
Hi Guys,
I'm hoping for a little bit of advice. Long story short, I had an N900 back in 2009-2010 and I loved it to pieces. It broke after 9 months and Nokia refused to do anything about it and instead offered me an N97 (insulting, right?) in its place. I swore blind Nokia would never get a penny of my money ever again, took the N97, sold it and got my first Android device (a G1) and I've been using Android since. I'm now pining to have an N900 again since you can pick them up for around £60 as I'm bored of Android, and none of the other platforms take my fancy. I'm not stupidly invested in Google's ecosystem and could give most of it up fairly easily, however I'd like to find out if there is any compatibility/a workaround for some of these things, if anyone could shed some insight it would be really appreciated.
I'm also considering just keeping my HTC One and just keeping it in flight mode to use it as more of a media device. However if I can find a satisfactory solution to all of my above queries then I would just throw the One in a draw and use it if I really had to. |
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I have never likes Google services so have alternatives for some your services. Chrome or bookmark syncing are not something I use. There is a Dropbox client for Maemo for cloud storage, Spotify and QSpot works well for music. There is a proof of concept .apk compatibility layer apkenv. But generally andriod applications would need to be ported. |
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Thanks for the reply. As long as Drive worked through the browser I wouldn't care that much about a native app.
Do you know if QSpot allows for tracks to be saved to device for offline listening? Spotify Premium is the same price as Google Music so I don't mind switching. I only have 1GB of 3G a month though, which is why saving to the device is such a big thing for me, I download it all on the WIFI at home. Thanks again for the reply. |
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The truth is, Google services and Android apps are going to work much better on an Android device than on an N900 (if they work at all), so if you're happy with those services, it'd be best to hang on to your One... |
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I seem to have found few minor bugs in QSpot, I have been told this is due to the version of libc on N900. However, it's still perfectly usable. http://qspot.garage.maemo.org/ http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55589 Quote:
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OTOH, most things that Android programs do have better programs to do the same in Maemo, FOSS way. No idea about the rest. Cheers, |
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The N900 is a very dated device by today's standard, not only hardware-wise, but software-wise as well.
MicroB (the web browser of the N900) is more than 5 years old and it shows - it's based on Firefox 3 (which was a memory hog, especially compared to today's Chromium).
A possible solution to this problem would be running regular Debian in a chroot so you can run Chromium, except...
The few apps out there are all pretty high quality stuff and they run great, but there are almost 0 service-specific apps (no Google Drive, <INSERT YOUR CARRIER APP>, Parkmobile). Hardware faults/dated components.
Despite all this, I love it to death. Honestly, the main reason people get the device these days is either because they lost their old one (meaning they were already long-time fans of the N900) or for the qwerty keyboard. I cannot recommend it to anyone these days, especially someone who's "spoiled" (don't mean to offend you) by the Android ecosystem & hardware. If you really want a small gadget to mess around with, just get yourself a Acer C720/second hand Thinkpad. Or wait for the Pyra if you want something a little more portable ;) |
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i really hope there's a solution comes from neo / freemantle. |
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Youtube & friends are working perfectly via dedicated FOSS program, cuteTube (with possibility to playback retrieved content in OMP/Mediaplayer, which is, was, and always will be better than any playback in browserwindow).
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