[Discuss] nokia n800

[Daniel M German]

 Adam> Out of curiosity (I'm one of those phone "purists" who wants his phone
 Adam> to be a phone and nothing else), how did the n800 compare price-wise
 Adam> with the iPhone?  What carrier are you using the n800 with?
 >> 
 >> The n800 is not a phone (but it  can do skype calls over 800.11).

 Alan> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800 has a article on the n800.  Because
 Alan> of the Linux freedom factor it sounds like users are already doing more
 Alan> with it (e.g., using the secret FM tuner) than Nokia intended.

 Alan> Normally, I have a high resistance to gadgets, but I must say I
 Alan> am tempted (at least a little bit) by this one because of the
 Alan> freedom factor.

To illustrate how powerful this is...

Its most popular agenda (GPE Calendar) stores data using sqlite. This
means I can quickly write queries to it using sql. And I can do this
in my other unix computers, because all I have do to is copy the daa
file. So I have freedom of data, and freedom to use it in any machine.

dmg


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