On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:36 +0100 Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I've been tempted to trade in my old Nokia phone for a Nokia N97 but have been put off by the reviews - and the £500 price tag. I've thought about an Android phone and an iPhone but today I read about the Nokia N900. It has a Linux OS but having downloaded an SDK for the N97 and installed it on my Windows machine, am I likely to have problems trying write something for a Linux OS on a phone?
I have to confess that my programming experience is limited to BBC Basic on a model B back in the 80's and now that I'm about to retire I thought I'd buy myself a new phone and do something useful with it.
So 2 questions really. One is about the thoughts of the people here around Maemo. It's been used before on other devices but is the fact that it's based on Linux that important and is it any good?
I've been running maemo on an N800 for close to two years now. It has been solid and reliable and lots of fun. The N810 is better (it has the GPS module and the sliding qwerty keyboard) but I must say that the new 900 looks cool enough for me to want to upgrade. And it looks as if it is also a phone. Excellent.
Second question concerns programming. Has anybody done any programming for a Linux phone, other than tweaking? I wouldn't be pestering you for advice so don't be afraid to answer ;-)
Nope - but there is a healthy maemo community out there which provides lots of goodies.
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