Sat Jan 16 2010 Tags: Maemo Android N900 G1 Milestone

Maemo N900 vs. Android

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I have since 2 days ago near my G1 and Milestone also now have a Nokia N900. I have therefore now compared with each other and this will now reflect my experience here.
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Maemo Android is more open than most regarding root access issue. Say rootsh root (local) and OpenSSH (root via SSH connection) can be installed directly over the Programmmananger, and you get root access, either locally in the X-terminal and / or an SSH connection.
There is an unofficial Android 2.0.1 Port for the N900 (see maemo.org Forum). But this does nothing for the cause.
The applications on Maemo run as a native ARM binaries. This means that the N900 visually at least for me a lot appears to be fluid with my Motorola Milestone Dalvik VM, which is exactly the same CPU with the same clock and same graphics unit how has the N900. Say both have a QMAP3430 SoC with the same clock and a PowerVR SGX 530 graphics unit.
3D applications such as Games (OpenGL ES 2.0) run amazingly fluid than on the milestone, though both have the exact same graphics unit. Nevertheless, I still could not compare 1 to 1. For this I would have erstmal an identical small 3D benchmark write, which then runs) for both platforms (for Android then across JNI for native code.
The N900 has TV-Out, which works surprisingly well.
The N900 has an FM transmitter.
The N900 has Flash working in Gecko-based browser, which is also surprisingly good, and "liquid" work.
The scrolling in Gecko-based web browser in the N900 is to the lengths of liquid as Android WebKit-based browser on the G1 and Milestone.
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Under Maemo running a normal X server. Say if one wants, one can also standard X The treatments in a Debian chroot environment to run and get it without VNC Forwardingkram (as is the case Debianchrootkram at G1), ie eg Gimp 2.0, Firefox, OpenOffice, Audacity, LXDE, Openbox, and so on.
Maemo is a normal Linux distribution with a completely normal standard Linux directory structure and normal libraries (only just stop for ARM CPU target as translated), which developer is very praiseworthy, as opposed to with Android BOINIC and so on.
The N900 has 32GB internal plus additional microSD slot.
Most programs are under / opt (symlink to / home / opt to install a 2GB NAND partition as / home), that is enough room for many apps available.

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Android Market is better filled by lengths and operated as the Ovi Store and repositories (for apt-get on the console and in the Maemo program manager) wants to struggle certainly not a 08/15 user.
Touch screen capability / usability of the N900 with a resistive touch screen is strongly behind the Androidgeräten with capacitive touch screens. eg In many places you need the stylus to make many posts at all precisely.
The Maemosteuerung is something illogical in some places, eg How to get into the program list, or, as it scrolls.
The N900 is thicker compared to my T-Mobile G1, and Motorola Milestone significantly by lot.
The keyboard of the N900 is significantly behind that of the T-Mobile G1s but roughly at the same level of the Motorola milestones.
The Bildschirmuflösung with the N900 is 800x480 pixels wide, at some less than the milestone with 854x480, but this is not particularly strong when compared to the weight. And the G1 has only 320x480 anyway here in the cold.
The maximum volume of the internal speaker is smaller than my Motorola Milestone.
Nokia is still undecided as to what is now their primary OS, Symbian, or whether Maemo. Say Maemo has as yet an uncertain market future for people like me as an app developer.
Maemo is currently almost exclusively used only in landscape mode on the phone to use in portrait mode as the exception.
The N900 does not have a digital compass.

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Maemo in my opinion is still strongly behind Android for the "mainstream" Users, and much still needs to catch up. So Maemo is rather more for geeks and Android rather more for the mainstream user. The bottom line is I will continue to mainly develop more programs for Android, and only now and develop something for Maemo, Maemo has the right to become established.
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Nokia-N900-51-1: ~ # df-h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.9M 160.7M 63.0M 72% /
ubi0: rootfs 227.9M 160.7M 63.0M 72% /
tmpfs 1.0M 64.0k 960.0k 6% / tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 84.0k 172.0k 33% / var / run
none 10.0M 80.0k 9.9m 1% / dev
tmpfs 64.0m 4.0k 64.0m 0% / dev / shm
/ dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / home
/ opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / usr/lib/python2.5
/ opt / pymaemo / usr / share / pyshared
2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / usr / share / pyshared
/ opt / pymaemo / usr / lib / pyshared
2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / usr / lib / pyshared
/ opt / pymaemo / usr / share / python-support
2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / usr / share / python-support
/ opt / pymaemo / usr / lib / python-support
2.0G 112.4M 1.8G 6% / usr / lib / python-support
/ dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 227.6M 26.8G 1% / home / user / MyDocs
/ dev/mmcblk1p1 7.4g 2.0G 5.4G 27% / media/mmc1

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