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I completely disagree that $330 is expensive. IIRC the Nokia N800 was 330 _EURO_ when it came out, and that's OMAP2 and less RAM, etc. One of the reasons I pre-ordered the Pandora was because I considered it a bargain. Still do. -Tor

I must say I'm pretty enthusiastic about this Opera version. It runs very well on my N900. I like the way I can pre-set a zoom factor, and then when I hit the screen it'll zoom to that size, and even shift to the part of the page where I pointed. A double-click resets it. Without the zoom the...

It used to be like that, but not for since some years ago, according to what I've been told. It's simple, really. The system figures out the low-level sectors and addresses them, instead of going through the filesystem layer. Thus, it'll be used just as if it were a partition. (On a real disk it...

Get a BlueTooth GPS based on either the Sirf star III chipset or the MTK chipset. E.g. Holux, or that keyring GPS wich I don't remember the name of. They should work out-of-the-box (no drivers needed, just the usual Linux Bluez stack. NMEA protocol will be understood either by gprsd (a daemon)...

Hopefully we can get to a point where we can have cpu/voltage scaling the way the N900 does. It's got a puny 1320mAh battery and I wish it was slightly larger, but still.. with the stock kernel I'm on wi-fi all day long, with skype, gtalk and a couple other things always connected (as in: ready...

Haha, indeed, that should work fine! I don't have a PS3 controller, but I've tested running games on the big TV and the N900 is surprisingly good at it. The cable (3 RCA plugs in the TV end) that comes with it is shorter than what we'll get with the Pandora I think, but it's quite decent anyway...

I have the N900, and I'm getting the Pandora. The N900 screen is physically small, 3.5" vs. 4.3" on Pandora. The 4.1" screen on my N800 is much easier to read than the N900 screen, but the N800 screen isn't good in daylight unlike the N900. The short of it is that the N900 is the compromise...

Advice: File off the two little nubs on the micro-USB plug of your charger, so that the plug can be pushed/pulled into/out of the N900 with as little friction as possible. The microUSB connector on the N900 is soldered flat to the motherboard (design fault) and can be ripped out very easily...

Haha, I used to program my first Basic programs on one of those TTYs seen in that first video.. in school. Resources were limited so they obviously didn't have the last tech. The sound gives me flashbacks to when I was printing out the listing or running my programs. Oh well. The compiler was on...

Yep, "not available in your area". A publically available proxy in the UK, anyone?

Well, yes, but don't forget the part that you didn't quote! :) The N900 (very similar type of device: Basically same chipsets, including wi-fi) is in the same range throughput-wise. -Tor

And don't forget that 11g doesn't give you 5MB/s as the 54Mb/s may indicate. On a standard 802.11g network you'll get around 22Mb/s, i.e. around 2.7MB/s theoretical maximum transfer rate. My N900 seems to get around 650KB/s from a real ftp server, most of the time. Peaks are a bit higher, but...

Maybe we mean different things by "fork"! :)

Sigh. GNU existed quite a while before Linux came along. Linux was originally the Linux kernel plus gcc version 1.42 (iirc) which Linus cross-compiled so to have something to start with. All the other components (user-level applications, libraries, tools) came along after a while, many of them...

Opera 9 was part of the older Maemo releases (not the version which runs on N900, but it did run on the older devices). So there's a Linux version around as well. Licensed through Nokia though.

I'm working in a company with lots of (proprieatary) development on Linux. I would say that all the top developers here have contributed to open source/free software projects at least once, and sometimes much more. That's not the same as the majority of the developers though: I haven't asked all...

We don't know if there's been any change the actual manufacturing. It's possible that TI has simply started to speed-sort their chips, and dumping those that pass the 720MHz test into one bin, and the rest in the other bin. Then sell them as BB72 and BB, respectively.

wget -O /dev/null <url> isn't bad for measurements. Better than scp anyway, as any SSH operation involves lots of CPU work which may impact measurements, particularly when the link (wi-fi) gets faster.

No, thats' the thing: As far as I know the T3 doesn't have a separate video decoding chip. And I'm looking at the TCPMP source code (it's GPL), and I see just straight-forward C code for e.g. the mpeg decoding. No calls to any co-processor or anything. And still it's fast. edit: Spell 'video'

Don't trash the xscale.. :) The 400MHz XScale in my T3 is better at playing videos through TCPMP than my OMAP2 N800 with mplayer or the Nokia media player. On the T3 I don't even have to offline re-scale even, for the most part I can just play the original video. That's basically impossible with...