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Nokia N900 now up for $649 preorder in the US of A {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 4th 2009 4:19PM I would say comparison isn't so clear-cut... Maemo 5 is essentially fresh-new platform. Even if S60 (with Java and native apps) is pain to develop, it shines in the regard of applications available for it (unless you're quite a nerd). Buying N900 now is either a strong bet for the hardware and software platforms in the future, or sheer ignorance of the situation.
Well. I'm betting on the platform, but that's probably because I know how to hack things better on the device, and that I can do it. So, I'm outside 99.99% phone buyer demographic. At the same time, I feel a bit sorry for those people that are not exactly latest-gadget collectors but compare the hardware specs, and then select N900 based on that, and the price, unless they pretty much stick to using it as a phone with a web browser.
Apple announces Remote Disc to wirelessly install software on MacBook Air {Engadget}
Jan 17th 2008 6:28AM File system sharing (Windows shares, UNIX NFS and similar) are one thing storage device sharing at the lower level (mostly iSCSI these days, if you want to use standard networking) are another. I suspect the solution may well involve iSCSI. None of this is really new.
But there's third thing, and that's the capability to boot from the network. This capability has been around for like two decades on UNIX workstations, and around one decade even on well-equipped networked PCs, not limited to servers.
In PC world, de facto standard in this segment is Preboot Execution Environment, or PXE. When a machine is configured to attempt booting from the network, it attempts to acquire IP address and boot configuration information from a DHCP server. After this, it loads specified boot loader from a TFTP server. This is pretty much like any boot loader loading from the disk, but in this case, the boot loader has also an vendor-independent interface to the network through PXE interface. Whatever the boot loader does after this depends really on boot loader writers' imagination. All of this is very useful when you understand it properly; for instance, I have a system that reinstalls 80 Unix desktop machines from scratch with one short command.
What remains to be seen is if Apple has adopted PXE, or brewed its own "standard" for this purpose.
Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2007 3:38PM Call me cynical, but I think Apple has performed a huge spin once again. Apple is good at integration - software and hardware, devices and content, and it's likely to be the case here too - but I really think only true Apple Believers or completely technically illiterate can avoid seeing glaring problems. One may well be practical battery life as a phone. Second, much worse, is user experience the touchscreen user interface can provide. Third is price. And the list goes on.
The Mac faithful are eager to queue for this device, but I doubt if Apple has some magic juice that makes it so special... any major phone manufacturer could probably create something equally good, it's just that they would put their brand image at stake, and they have probably figured out that they'd take a bad hit as their average customers aren't blindly faithful (and forgiving), but actually much more pragmatic folks. Ones that care like things if you can make a phone call with one hand, with gloves.
Nokia to switch up naming scheme, follow Moto's lead {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 8th 2006 5:54AM Anything beats phone names like Fukr and Wnkr. It's hard to pick model numbers that would provoke hate and disgust - but it's quite trivial with words. And words are *not* universal.
Well, place names like Helsinki would do quite well, but it's more likely they go the idiotic Motorola way.
Nokia's Chicago flagship: exclusive walkthrough {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 17th 2006 11:47AM Phillip: If I recall correctly, only opened european flagship store in Moscow. They're opening one in Helsinki this Saturday, and sure there are some more to come.
