No need, which version Windows are you using?

LMAO, some user name Steve commented this in the blog:
"Just avoid charging it THAT WAY!"

iPhone/iPod Touch is like a PSP Touch with no game buttons. So yeah, there're tons of games on iPhone/iPod Touch and also the iPad, basically for the iOS.

If you're looking for a gaming/entartainment device + phone, iPhone is for you. Heck, they even have games that isn't available on PC or console. I think the NFS Shift is better than the PSP version. The only problem is, there is no buttons, shucks when you want to play manual transmission.
If you're looking for a REAL smartphone, you can basically forget about iPhone because it's not much of a smartphone, no where close to being Computer like.

If you want smartphone + good gaming capability, can opt for Android or Symbian or Windows Mobile. All these are good smartphones, have many games available and also have Garmin and/or PapaGo GPS.

N900 is a tablet phone, it's very flexible and computer like; It's very power and totally different from normal smartphones, it has REAL desktop unlike others with homescreen. So those that used to smatphone homescreen might not be able to understand somethings. The desktop is very flexible and allows lots of customization, there's no restriction like normal homescreen.
The main problem is the lack of support from Nokia, and Nokia didn't put much effort to get contract or companies to develop/port the games over to N900.
Most of the things are supported by the Community.

NFS Shift is way way better; it's so fun, the realism is also there, the rain, the windscreen crack and shatter, when you crash the effects, woah... and best of all... DRIFT-O~~~

[ANNOUNCEMENT]

Qik is back again in OVI Store with PREMIUM version, which also means, a paid app now.

Previous FREE version have some problems and have been remove with no information provided. After checking from their developers site, found that there is some bug so they remove it.

Sure got, but no good GPS software especially for MY, and Nokia Maps is different with Symbian version, there is no voice-guided navigation, no saving of POI/locations, etc.

Currently, most people prefer Garmin or PapaGo.

Have GPS hardware or not is not really important, we can always buy bluetooth GPS receiver (which usually have better reception); The important is there is a good GPS software available.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Jul 12 2010, 03:02 PM

1. This is ad-hoc connection, so it will always show in your N900. You can remove it through: Settings>Internet Connection page.

2. You mean for ad-hoc? N900 I'm not sure because it will show connection signal as you can be the host and also the client, but from your laptop you can see it by viewing the connection.

3. As aspire suggest, you can look for askarperang.

Powerful Document Scanner:

Previous have replied to you after aspire reply.

1. You're connecting directly to your laptop, that will be ad-hoc connection. Ad-Hoc connection will always show in your selection list on your N900 because you can be the host/client.
You can manually remove it from the Settings->Internet Connections

2. I think you mistaken WLAN and WIFI?
Anyway, if you're connecting to your laptop via ad-hoc mode and your laptop is connecting to the streamyx modem via cable, then you need to set up Internet Connection sharing on your laptop to share the Internet Connection.

Not sure if they will charge you if not Zitron set.

If not follow the front page guide how to update, it's very easy. First time reading the steps may look complicated, once you have done it, it's actually very easy and you will learn something new.

No worries, there's always first time. As you learn, you improve and become more skilled and also become more knowledgeabe. Isn't it a good thing?
This phone can make the user learn many things and become more skilled, become more experience and advance smartphone users.

Just sharing something, not referring to anyone :
Never judge a person by it's age, never look down someone because of age. A may look down on B because B is younger, at the same time, C may look down on A because C is older. It's a never ending loop. Old fashioned people do this, it is not nice. To learn, we should be open and accept, sometimes there're thing we can learn from the younger, not necessarily only learn from older people; Or those look down on younger people because of age, they will just loose out and in the end never learn anything.
We're smartphone users, so we should be different from those 'old fashioned' people

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Added on July 13, 2010, 3:52 pmUmmmm... you should notice the different WIFI icon signal... If it has a DOT on top of the signal, it is AD-HOC mode. Some Access Point may have certain security where you they disable the DHCP so you will need to manually set the ip address, or some may have some other settings.
If you're on older firmware, there is some issues whereby the N900 is unable to obtain the IP Address.

You can install the widget to view your IP Address. If you're able to obtain the IP Address, means you've successfully connected. Whether able to access to Internet is another matter.


This post has been edited by Andy214: Jul 13 2010, 03:52 PM

No worries bro, I already stated that I'm not referring to anyone, it's just a general comment
Besides, we're all smartphone users that comes in various different age, we share and learn from each other regardless of age


Contacts and Calendar no problem. Just transfer it to Nokia PC Suite (or latest OVI Suite). You can also transfer to Outlook Express, which also works.

For SMS and Notes, unfortunately it's not supported officially. For notes, you can use some tools to convert it to plain text. Symbian notes is formatted, you can read in Outlook but if you open with Notepad, you will not see it properly. So, you will need tools to convert it.
For SMS, there's also some tools which does this, but I'm not sure if it will show properly on the N900 Conversations.

Take note that N900 SMS is very different from ANY other smartphones you have seen before; This is the "CONVERSATIONS" concept, whereby all your conversations are stored here, it can be SMS or Instant Messaging (e.g. Skype, Facebook Chat, MSN, etc).
The Address Book is also a new concept which you might never seen before. The Address Book can include IM accounts, like Skype, Facebook Chat, MSN, ICQ, etc. The default provided are Skype, Jabber, Facebook Chat, etc.
For MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, etc you need to install 3rd party plugins (unless Nokia officially provide it).
With this integration, you don't have to open any other app for Instant Messaging, no more Fring, no more Windows Messenger, no more eBuddy, etc. You can throw all that away, everything can be integrated into your address book and the chat will be in "Conversations".
Unless of course, you don't want any integration and you prefer to use 3rd party IM application.

Check YouTube, there is a FULL Video dismantle of N900 and explanation for each part.

Not sure if size matters, have tested over 3GB size videos files also, nothing wrong; Even N97 can play over 3GB size videos; It's the bitrate and resolution that matters. For N97, I use smartmovie and the video I use around 300++ bitrate.

For N900, you can play most of the avi files without need to convert, unless it is high quality which might cause some lag or totally cannot play (but if you use mplayer, you might be still be able to play it).

rmvb files you might experience lag, but still watchable unless the compression/quality is too much for the N900 to handle.

You need to install the extra-decoder support to be able to watch more types of videos files. Install mplayer and KMPlayer, from KMPlayer, you can choose mplayer as the video player, now you can play files that cannot be play by the default video player, but mplayer uses the processor instead of the DSP, so it will drain your battery more.

I doubt that there will be no more flash or silverlight. HTML5 cannot replace everything Flash or Silverlight can do, but it can reduce the needs to use them. There're still many things that HTML5 cannot do.

In developer point of view, instead of replacing each other, it should be complementing each other; Why need to abandon when you can have a choice to use each technology for what it does best or determine when to use each technology, and make a flexible web app where user can choose their preference (e.g. just like now, we can choose a LITE version with No Flash content; similarly, in future, web app can be configured for each user preference and what device they login with).

That's what I'm trying to say, I doubt it will kill Flash or Silverlight. They can co-exist. Only Jobs is trying to kill it because his product doesn't support it, it's that simple, thus he's trying to create this scene or group of army of his, manipulations, etc.

Why must something die when it still has it's use? There're still SO many games in Flash version, I'm not sure HTML5 will be replacing these games or someone will rewrite everything in HTML5. Only Jobs and his armies will try to deny and think inside their small little box that there is only ONE RING to rule the world.

Honestly, I'm not sure what's the capabilities of HTML5, and to what extend currently, but we're always open to good things. Thus it's not right to say, we want HTML5 and don't want Flash 10. Why not have BOTH. We're not Apple

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Added on July 15, 2010, 11:27 amHoly MOG!!!

I use Chromium on N900, this HTML5 site is simply crazieeeeeee:
http://mugtug.com/sketchpad

Come people, let's DRAW~

Now, anybody know how to activate mouse cursor in Chromium?




This post has been edited by Andy214: Jul 15 2010, 11:40 AM

Yo bro, so long never hear from you, give us surprise news meh...

Anyway, glad to see that you're ok although sustain minor injuries, but the accident looks serious! Did you went for checkup, heard that sometimes there might be internal injuries that is not visible (touchwood), but just a precaution, heard about one accident the guy has no injuries but not long after he passed out or something.

Take care man, that looks really serious. Lucky the middle body/frame still in shape, if not sure bad. Saw the rear one side already gone

Bro jloi,

LOL!!!

http://jackieloi.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-lo...le-brother.html

If you want real increase in mAh, the size will be bigger. Usually those that reported higher mAh but at similar size, is probably fake or is said to have safety. Not sure, but for now, for bigger capacity, size will matter, Nokia would've provided a high capacity version already.

Nokia Extra Power DC-11 is expensive, it's only 1500mah and only capable to fully charge a 900mah battery (as the spec written). I bought one for around RM199. You can get cheaper from Low Yat seller or ebay (more cheaper). It's around the same size as N97, and can fit perfectly on an iPhone case.

IMO, not really worth spending on the Nokia DC-11, better get other brand which is cheaper and have higher capacity. Eiraku is using XPAL portable charger/battery pack by Energizer. The XP2000 would be a good choice as the size is compact and offer more juice than DC-11, not to mentioned cheaper; better yet, you can use it to charge other phone or devices as well, not just Nokia.

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Added on July 16, 2010, 12:54 pmHave you tried restart your phone?

If the battery, then did you always let the battery empty (as in the N900 power off itself)? Although this usually will kill your battery instead of making it perform worst.

Did you charge you phone using the car charger? If yes, did you leave on connect the charger to your phone BEFORE you start the car and/or when turning off your car?
Did you use any faulty or non-ori charger?
All the above can be a factor that cause your battery to have your symptom, or is your battery original?

This post has been edited by Andy214: Jul 16 2010, 12:54 PM

What about your phone? Do you install System Info Widget to see the processor usage?
Or use HTOP, click on the CPU part, see which processes is running high on usage constantly.
Sometimes I face this, the battery drain very fast and notice some processes is running high and the phone is hot.

If you suspect your battery and if you have spare battery or have other phone which uses the same battery, you can try swapping to test.

Wrong... it's well known fact that heat damages battery and the main issues for battery. You can try google it, anywhere you read you will find information about heat:

Check out the article below which very detailed information including a chart of storing battery in different temperature, you will see that storing at 0 degrees, battery discharge is very low even after 1 year, but under higher temperature, it will drop a lot in just 3 months:
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm

You can also find this information in Apple website:
You may find that playing an iPod or using an iPhone or iPad in a very cold environment decreases battery life. Unlike the effects of a hot environment, this is a temporary condition. Once molecules in the battery warm up, the battery will return to its previous capacity.

Read that it happens in very cold environment and it's a temporary condition, unlike hot environment.


Here's some more information found regarding cold situation:

Cold batteries can’t create very much power and hot batteries will discharge very quickly

State of Charge
The State of Charge describes how full a battery is. The exact voltage to battery charge correlation is dependent on the temperature of the battery. Cold batteries will show a lower voltage when full than hot batteries.

Even out car, the battery main culprit is heat. That's why car batteries don't last long in our country and there're also special battery for tropical weather, and also why car batteries need a case to prevent heat. If expose or not covered, it will not last as long.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Jul 18 2010, 01:17 AM