Comments on: Nokia N900 Running Android AND Maemo

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:22:11 +0000

I think it looks pretty cool:)

By: Bhammy

Bhammy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:36:53 +0000

my nokia N900 is best ever android with maemo stylish in look fast processing graphics with very low price all the top features in others 3g phones

By: Sl

Sl — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:57:30 +0000

Android is dumb java. Do not need to dual boot.
Just need to port android vm and APIs to maemo and run it in a window ;)

By: Cyclotron Jon

Cyclotron Jon — Sun, 16 May 2010 06:03:32 +0000

Oli Pekka – Please give us a Nokia Android!! Still time before Christmas to modify the so-well-made N9oo. Best of European quality shining through. Plus if you get Ovi and other Nokia apps into the Android Market – maybe your earnings will go up.

By: Josef

Josef — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:04:08 +0000

There’s only one thing that stopped me from buying N900. It doesn’t support Java apps (jar & jad). What a shame..

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:14 +0000

Dual booting is not ideal. You want an Android Java environment that runs Android applications, but depends upon Maemo for all the nuts & bolts. If necessary, the environment could pause running Maemo applications. You just need the phone, skype, etc. to still run while an Android Java application, usually a game, is running.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:27:34 +0000

Its definatly not working right, when he touches teh screen you see the status bar act like its being pulled down a little. But agree’d its still cool.

By: Eddie Android

Eddie Android — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:48:12 +0000

im getting my N900 this weekend

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:38:32 +0000

The N900 was the meat in an Android/HTC sandwich over the last 6 weeks. The G1 and N1 are nice, but the fit, finish, feel, polish, thought, and execution on the N900 hardware was one or two solid steps above the HTCs.

By: jouten

jouten — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:32:29 +0000

@Dave
“…HTC hardware just can’t be compared to it in any favorable way.”

Are you saying that HTC hardware is inferior to Nokia’s? Just want to make sure I understand what you are saying.

Thanks.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:00 +0000

I had an N900 for about three weeks. Great hardware, sketchy software, but it felt like my G1 did in late 2008; undeveloped but bursting with potential.

I sold it immediately when the Nexus One came out, and I only regret the move for small reasons. If someone gets a real Maemo/Android ecosystem working, I’d totally move back to a Nokia. HTC hardware just can’t be compared to it in any favorable way.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:44:41 +0000

In the video (2:00) you can see the that the touch-screen driver isn’t working.
I presume that before making this practical to use, a lot of drivers need to be written first. :-(
Creative on the other hand, makes these drivers themself (Zii Egg), would be nice if Nokia did too.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:44:17 +0000

They do on Windows Mobile devices (ie, the HTC touch, etc)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:05:06 +0000

It doesn’t look like the touch screen calibration works very well. He is using a hard button to slide the app drawer in and out. When he touches anywhere on the home screen, it attempts to pull down the notification bar. Good work getting it started, but it looks there is still a long way to go before this is suitable for daily use.

By: swehes

swehes — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:07:23 +0000

boot from SD card? That is cool. I wonder if a person could get android 2.1 on a SD card and boot from that on other phones too?