Nokia N900 running Android 2.1, still rough around the edges
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 12th 2010 1:59AM
posted May 12th 2010 1:59AM
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Android is seriously taking over. Not only Android devices, but WinMo devices, iphones, and now N900!
@Johnny Rockets I for one welcome our android overlords
@Johnny Rockets thanks but not thanks...
For a long time Google has acquired enough info about me, if they promise that no single info about my device/location/chat/email/etc is sent to Google I would install it, but I bet there are trackings built in also in apps and so on...
No go.
@Mr w00t
like google gives a damn about you
@inertone
You are right, they do not, which is why he is right, when he wants to limit the information they have on him.
@Mr w00t Guilty conscience?
@iucidium u american much?
Android on HD2 please!
@ESPN
Last I heard the drivers are having huge incompatibilities so it'd take months before a working Android on HD2 :(
Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, but that's the latest status I've heard.
As if there weren't already enough reasons to buy this thing.....
It just refuses to be forgotten.. next thing you know they will hack it to shoot lasers.
@Eternity Its too bad it will never reach the mainstream. The n900 seems like a quality device.
@Eternity Wasn't it already done to shoot toy rockets? Why not just replace the toy rockets with some lasers :P
@Eternity
I know, it is prety awesome with Maemo. I like Android, but in using it iso Maemo, you actually lose quite a lot of cool functionality.
@Eternity
it has already been modified to fly a helicopter, lasers are not really that far away :D
@sweetelectro How ironic is it and why this device always got the good stuff? http://j.mp/iphone-android-now-possible
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Maemo way better than android
@travisonfire
Me happy with Maemo too, ya. I go now?
@travisonfire
Nothing wrong with having more options available. You can't deny that Android has more 3rd party applications given its greater popularity, although I think Maemo is a fine operating system in itself.
@travisonfire im n900 is great but android is still better less buggy can't be broken by an application system files don't disappear so aftter a few more months I'm moving to a stable os like android that has full not 3% support like Nokia gives the n900
@travisonfire
Says one that hasn't tried both
@travisonfire I do like Maemo better than android but there are some things about android you just gotta love, google maps is an absolutely killer application.
If this project goes well I'll definitely be a dual-booter
@normanb20
I used both extensively, I like Maemo better.
@Junzhi
I was made to understand that Maemo can install the entire Debian repository (X and what not) so therefore, I think Maemo has more applications, unless you think that there are more Android apps then Debian programs for linux.
But in any case, gross number of apps never impressed me. Didn't we have people whining that there were like a thousand Bejeweled apps on the iPhone store?
What matters is the number of discrete "good" apps, and I don't think anybody has done a study based on that POV, so we can't really claim one platform is better than another solely on this factor alone.
But hey, more power to people. If they want Android, good for them. This why I like Nokia, I don't think they mind what we do with their phones. They are very open on this issue.
@travisonfire why do this,Because we CAN! :D
I'm going to try and install android on my first born child, just to outdo these crazy hackers
@B3astofthe3ast lol!
@B3astofthe3ast HAHA that comment is a furious whirlwind of win!!
@B3astofthe3ast
That actually made me lol. I know people overuse the term, but really, out loud(kind of weird in a basement)
@B3astofthe3ast Congratulations :P You're one of the Quotes of the Day.
Android is like the whore of mobile operating systems now. Appearing on the iPhone 2G and 3G, and now the N900? What's next, my RAZR?
@amrkvati
Your mom's next.
@Nel Mature Nel, very mature...
@Nel
You should go to Gizmodo....
@amrkvati All that is because Android is an open-source OS. And since it's one of the best OS out there, everyone wants it on his/het phone. Sure, they could get S60 (which was made open-source just a few months ago) on it, but let's face it, S60 os waaaay past its golden ages.
@guitarkid Yeah I'm just sort of surprised that people are porting it to competitor's hardware.
@amrkvati I'm not. In any market hackers will want to do things that they're not suppose to do. It is in our DNA to be rebellious. Plus, it is fun and challenging.
@guitarkid Too bad you sound really dumb saying S60 instead of Symbian, sine S60 is the (dated) UI, and Symbian is the awesome core OS...
@bandora
You smacked him. Good.
i liked the n900 when i had it. But is 2010 that bulkyness have to go.
I felt like i went back in time to the cingular 8825 days YUCK!!
@FrankDTank agreed, sold it and bought a motorola milestone
Android is everywhere these days, I swear Android is Rick Rolling its way to the top! Dang whats next Android on a PSP? Nintendo DS? Heck it seems if its an electronic handheld theres a possibility of Android having an affair with it. This is why we see Android topping the iphone which pretty much only has one form factor and one carrier the worst of the big three well at least in the US. iPhone users you can't deny that Android is looking too cool for school lately.
Whats next? Android on androids???
@Aguilera fail
@Aguilera
I read an article the other day about the iphone taking performance enhancing androids. Congress really needs to step in and level the playing field, like they did with the MLB.
Nice!!! Makes espoo's latest poopoo less poo!
@jellotime91
1. If you were to define it as poo, it is certainly not its latest
2. It certainly isnt poo, since it is the most powerful OS in the market now for mobile devices.
@JFH
You talking about maemo?
I think any mobile OS that's been discontinued less than a year after its first implementation, leaving said device abandoned with no upgrade to the new platform mind you, isn't very powerful.
It's the latest that I know of / care to know of. I know there's the N8 but that isn't released. I'm talking only of flagship devices of course, the others are mere fodder.
@jellotime91
The OS capabilities have nothing to do with it being supported or not. If they stop selling Snow Leopard tomorrow, my MacBook does not lose an inch of functionality.
MeeGo is the next iteration of Maemo, it basically is Maemo 6. Anyone that bought the N900 could have known, as it was communicated extensively, that this device would be an enthusiasts device. Even though Nokia will not bring MeeGo to N900, it is irrelevant as MeeGo as part of Linux Foundation will.
The fodder remark is myopic.
@JFH
MODERN Mobile OSes need community support. A mobile OS without a strong userbase that's running on a single device with no future is not a strong Mobile OS, regardless of its capabilities.
My eyes are myopic, maybe that explains some things.
Anyway what are some big devices that were launched after the N900 from Nokia? Because I can't think of a single one. And you can't deny that 50% of their devices are fodder.