I should mention that this is the "developer device", there's another one without keyboard that is faster or something. Nokia employees are hinting like crazy. It could be the one from the Red Steel trailer.
Yeah, and they wonder why there is a piracy problem. "Can I watch this show? Here is $8 US" "No, the binary data would become unlicensed and therefore Illegal if it crossed an imaginary line while being transferred over the Internet." I'd understand if they wanted to charge less money in countries with worthless currency, but I really don't get why these idiot network executives shun the global market and then cancel all the cool sci-fi shows I like because "nobody wants to watch them".
There are ways to get it working, using vpn, proxies, dns tricks... I don't want to say the exact solution that I used because it was easy and inexpensive enough that anyone can do it. This isn't exactly a good thing as stuff that easy tends to get blocked too. Lets just say if you want to watch US VIDEOs there is an ORGanization that can help you with that. But, please just be a sucker and pay for the crappy Canadian version of Netflix, that is the only way they will make enough money to license all the content for us as well in the future. (I hope I'm wrong)
Yes, your guess is soooooooooooo insightful.... I'm going to guess that the smaller shareholders might actually want to bet on an OS that doesn't require a $30 license fee.
MEEGO for christ's sake. This has got to be the worst "news for nerds" website when we can't even remember what open source OS they are supposed to be making.
these guys have done it already: http://www.myriadgroup.com/Media-Centre/News/Myriad-Announces-Alien%20Dalvik-Enables-Android-Apps-to-Run-on-Non-Android-Phones.aspx the picture shows an n900, the press release used to say something about maemo or meego but they changed it now that Nokia is trying to run away from their own platform. Only problem is this company will want a lot of money for their product, people that tried emailing them to purchase it were told it's up to the operators and manufacturers to come to an arrangement, they won't sell directly to end users:(
or just add dots, your.email@gmail or yo.urem.ail@gmail.com goes to you , and i do this all the time when i sign up at questionable places. if they start spamming me, i can just set up a filter to 'skip inbox' and delete.
The fastest speed at a given voltage is always the most efficient, so overclocking is really only a battery killer if you run at higher than stock voltages to reach the top speeds. n900 also becomes both faster and more efficient by disabling the 125 and 250 mhz frequencies. This is because they use very similar low voltages, with nokia's kernel they are close, and some of the other voltage profiles commonly used with titan's kernel they are identical. So it's better to do x cycles of work at 500mhz and sleep for as long as possible (shut off the cpu as much as possible to save power) than to run twice or four times as much to the same amount of work. Anyways, I wish people on the maemo forums would understand this before crying that the 125/250mhz isn't "working"...
android, i tried googling it and it looks like someone made a driver, but its just for a single phone:( http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Sixaxis some good info there
i can run kismet on it, get packet injection working (hard to get the driver but whatever), play with 3-4 different operating systems (using a boot menu), replace the camera app with one that does HDR and burst mode with full manual settings, connect to msn,skype,jabber,irc,etc all at the same time... I've also got an IR transmitter, usb-host mode, fm-transmitter, front camera, 32GB storage PLUS SD-card. It comes rooted, and I didn't even void the warranty to do any of these things. but, yeah, it doesn't have a RETINA display or stainless steel call dropper bezel, or sweet "store" to buy DRM laden crap I probably already own 3 times. okay, no google maps app either, and it took nokia just about forever to get some basic stuff working like the pc sync. Hopefully they sell a crapload of MeeGo devices next year, and drop Symbian soon, because I've seen the potential of this device. With some more developer support, it would truly be the best (for me). One really can't complain that the default stuff on the phone is slow or hard to use, it's more like a prototype they were nice enough to manufactre and sell at a loss. They did their best (with limited resources) to support, update and fix it, and we can upgrade it to a MeeGo device with a simple firmware flash in the near future if we want. Meanwhile, the community has been patching and replacing whatever Nokia code we can, whenever we think we can do a better job than Nokia's developers.
and no, you can't conect a sixaxis to your phone. it doesn't work as a standard HID, sony is lame.
1) yes, no multitouch. i got over it. I could connect a mouse & keyboard via bluetooth if I really wanted to though, and I can use a real stylus. It's not all bad. 2) what's a store? I'm glad this "store" thing with apps that cost money is nearly empty. Okay, so they have some free stuff there too, but the real place you should be looking is HERE. That's the "extras" maemo repository, full of the free apps that made it through the community based testing & voting process. They're mostly written for the platform, not generic gtk stuff. There's other repositories with even more "apps" that are still in development or testing, and companies and individuals can host their own as well.
Yeah, it's not a phone for the masses, but it's definitely the best "geek phone" around. It's shameful companies like google and adobe don't make software for it, but the fact I can run or at least recompile and run thousands of other things for it makes up for this. I'm always disappointed to see news of Nokia continuing to use Symbian, if they'd just dump it for MeeGo the added market share and dollars spent on their own software developemnt would "fix" most of the problems with the platform (currently maemo).
what phone isn't due to be discontinued "next year"? It's not like a lack of updates stops it from working suddenly. And these n900 phones are upgradable to MeeGo anyways, officially.
I was going to tell you, the exploit uses binary data, which might not qualify as "text" This guy did the psfreedom port: http://kakaroto.homelinux.net/ There's a post dated sept 16th: "I’ve also recently created a new branch in git for writing custom assembly for the payloads instead of using the hardcoded binary blob from PSJailbreak. I’ve cleaned up the payload used by PSJailbreak as well as documented it so others can read it and better understand how it works. The reverse engineering and information has been provided by the group of Mathieulh as well as some of my own reverse engineering work. You can find the ASM payload file here. AerialX from the PSGroove team is also working on cool payloads so you should check out his git repository too!" Sorry I'm too lazy to fix the links but you get the idea...
Hi, I was researching this just now. It seems the PS3 "hacks" are based on the actual PS3 "jig" that sony uses to repair PS3s. I "found" (thanks google) an official manual describing one procedure ("ID swapping") and it seems to start off by exactly describing the process of jailbreaking a PS3. (Connect Jig with USB cable, Power on and hit eject within 0.2s) Then it goes on to describe some complete different chain of activities, looks like cloning some "ID" from the hardware onto the usb, and then allowing it to be written to another PS3. Whatever. My point is, Sony put this (buggy) code into the PS3 on purpose, and I guess the original hacking team have reverse engineered part of it, and figured out the rest from leaked documents, enough to get the exploit running anyways. We certainly aren't booting into service mode. It seems that the PS3 USB hacking devices are partial clones of this official sony hardware, and the danger lies in the fact that despite this being "open source", we don't really understand 100% how the exploit works. Microsoft had a nice (lame) trick for their Xbox360 hard drives - the drive contains a "security sector" that is nothing more than a (copyrighted) microsoft logo. I'm just worried you could be hosting some binary Sony logo, without knowing it, or something else that they can complain is "stolen". Here's a bit more info on service mode: http://www.ps3news.com/PS3Dev/some-playstation-3-service-mode-details-1/ Anyways, the PSFreedom Git hub is here: http://github.com/kakaroto/PSFreedom Those are easy to clone;)
Then we'll be forced to enter IP-addresses manually. Surely that will stop all piracy, because we all know pirates are lazy and stupid and won't know what to do!!
We sure didn't invent like 20 other protocols we could use or anything... I've never heard of anything like Direct Connect, Gnutella2, NNTP (usenet), BitTorrent (with DHT), Kademlia, Soulseek/Nicotine, FastTrack, OpenNap, P2PTV.
These idiots *ALWAYS* try this, they shut down one or two sites that were indexing movies or games or whatever. It makes a difference for like a week, 2 people that probably deserved it end up in trouble, 20,000 morons have to spend a few minutes researching how to steal things again, and most of them figure it out. A couple people that have lots of money and know better than to waste their time are further discouraged. A bunch of lawyers and lobbyists get richer. Some detectives get promoted. And everyone else gets used to the stupidity of the whole thing. I don't know if I should even feel sorry for their wasted efforts. It's nice to see them cluelessly claiming victory over these things, but that effort could be so much better spent on some other problem like homelessness. Of course, the politicians solution would probably be to relocate all the homeless people to another city, or just harass them with police. Are these policy makers just lazy or something? I don't see how it's so difficult to come up with a solution to a problem when you have a proper education...
yeah but the video calling only works for skype or gtalk -- not for the actual "real" phone. There's a lot of obstacles to printing, and i don't see much work being done unless a lot of people asked for it. What would you use it for?
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I should mention that this is the "developer device", there's another one without keyboard that is faster or something. Nokia employees are hinting like crazy.
It could be the one from the Red Steel trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Tiua4BNQo
This is running MeeGo, and we were able to confirm the screen is 720p and has a 12MP camera. So, that's pretty exciting...
Yeah, and they wonder why there is a piracy problem.
"Can I watch this show? Here is $8 US"
"No, the binary data would become unlicensed and therefore Illegal if it crossed an imaginary line while being transferred over the Internet."
I'd understand if they wanted to charge less money in countries with worthless currency, but I really don't get why these idiot network executives shun the global market and then cancel all the cool sci-fi shows I like because "nobody wants to watch them".
There are ways to get it working, using vpn, proxies, dns tricks... I don't want to say the exact solution that I used because it was easy and inexpensive enough that anyone can do it. This isn't exactly a good thing as stuff that easy tends to get blocked too. Lets just say if you want to watch US VIDEOs there is an ORGanization that can help you with that. But, please just be a sucker and pay for the crappy Canadian version of Netflix, that is the only way they will make enough money to license all the content for us as well in the future. (I hope I'm wrong)
"how much stock do they control"
hopefully a lot more, very soon.
Yes, your guess is soooooooooooo insightful.... I'm going to guess that the smaller shareholders might actually want to bet on an OS that doesn't require a $30 license fee.
MEEGO for christ's sake. This has got to be the worst "news for nerds" website when we can't even remember what open source OS they are supposed to be making.
these guys have done it already: :(
http://www.myriadgroup.com/Media-Centre/News/Myriad-Announces-Alien%20Dalvik-Enables-Android-Apps-to-Run-on-Non-Android-Phones.aspx
the picture shows an n900, the press release used to say something about maemo or meego but they changed it now that Nokia is trying to run away from their own platform.
Only problem is this company will want a lot of money for their product, people that tried emailing them to purchase it were told it's up to the operators and manufacturers to come to an arrangement, they won't sell directly to end users
true, but spammers aren't too smart. they *could* get real jobs and not go to jail, but that doesn't seem to happen...
or just add dots, your.email@gmail or yo.urem.ail@gmail.com goes to you , and i do this all the time when i sign up at questionable places. if they start spamming me, i can just set up a filter to 'skip inbox' and delete.
The fastest speed at a given voltage is always the most efficient, so overclocking is really only a battery killer if you run at higher than stock voltages to reach the top speeds.
n900 also becomes both faster and more efficient by disabling the 125 and 250 mhz frequencies. This is because they use very similar low voltages, with nokia's kernel they are close, and some of the other voltage profiles commonly used with titan's kernel they are identical. So it's better to do x cycles of work at 500mhz and sleep for as long as possible (shut off the cpu as much as possible to save power) than to run twice or four times as much to the same amount of work.
Anyways, I wish people on the maemo forums would understand this before crying that the 125/250mhz isn't "working"...
android, i tried googling it and it looks like someone made a driver, but its just for a single phone :(
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Sixaxis
some good info there
i can run kismet on it, get packet injection working (hard to get the driver but whatever), play with 3-4 different operating systems (using a boot menu), replace the camera app with one that does HDR and burst mode with full manual settings, connect to msn,skype,jabber,irc,etc all at the same time... I've also got an IR transmitter, usb-host mode, fm-transmitter, front camera, 32GB storage PLUS SD-card. It comes rooted, and I didn't even void the warranty to do any of these things. but, yeah, it doesn't have a RETINA display or stainless steel call dropper bezel, or sweet "store" to buy DRM laden crap I probably already own 3 times. okay, no google maps app either, and it took nokia just about forever to get some basic stuff working like the pc sync.
Hopefully they sell a crapload of MeeGo devices next year, and drop Symbian soon, because I've seen the potential of this device. With some more developer support, it would truly be the best (for me). One really can't complain that the default stuff on the phone is slow or hard to use, it's more like a prototype they were nice enough to manufactre and sell at a loss. They did their best (with limited resources) to support, update and fix it, and we can upgrade it to a MeeGo device with a simple firmware flash in the near future if we want. Meanwhile, the community has been patching and replacing whatever Nokia code we can, whenever we think we can do a better job than Nokia's developers.
and no, you can't conect a sixaxis to your phone. it doesn't work as a standard HID, sony is lame.
1) yes, no multitouch. i got over it. I could connect a mouse & keyboard via bluetooth if I really wanted to though, and I can use a real stylus. It's not all bad.
2) what's a store? I'm glad this "store" thing with apps that cost money is nearly empty. Okay, so they have some free stuff there too, but the real place you should be looking is HERE. That's the "extras" maemo repository, full of the free apps that made it through the community based testing & voting process. They're mostly written for the platform, not generic gtk stuff. There's other repositories with even more "apps" that are still in development or testing, and companies and individuals can host their own as well.
Yeah, it's not a phone for the masses, but it's definitely the best "geek phone" around. It's shameful companies like google and adobe don't make software for it, but the fact I can run or at least recompile and run thousands of other things for it makes up for this.
I'm always disappointed to see news of Nokia continuing to use Symbian, if they'd just dump it for MeeGo the added market share and dollars spent on their own software developemnt would "fix" most of the problems with the platform (currently maemo).
what phone isn't due to be discontinued "next year"? It's not like a lack of updates stops it from working suddenly. And these n900 phones are upgradable to MeeGo anyways, officially.
I was going to tell you, the exploit uses binary data, which might not qualify as "text"
This guy did the psfreedom port: http://kakaroto.homelinux.net/
There's a post dated sept 16th: "I’ve also recently created a new branch in git for writing custom assembly for the payloads instead of using the hardcoded binary blob from PSJailbreak. I’ve cleaned up the payload used by PSJailbreak as well as documented it so others can read it and better understand how it works. The reverse engineering and information has been provided by the group of Mathieulh as well as some of my own reverse engineering work. You can find the ASM payload file here. AerialX from the PSGroove team is also working on cool payloads so you should check out his git repository too!"
Sorry I'm too lazy to fix the links but you get the idea...
Oh, I meant to link to this too: http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Hacks/ps3-jig-id-swapping-procedure-manual-leaked-by-demonhades/
I'll be darned if that isn't some sort of top-secret document there... Better not download it. Your Sony Rootkit will rat you out!
Hi, ;)
I was researching this just now. It seems the PS3 "hacks" are based on the actual PS3 "jig" that sony uses to repair PS3s. I "found" (thanks google) an official manual describing one procedure ("ID swapping") and it seems to start off by exactly describing the process of jailbreaking a PS3. (Connect Jig with USB cable, Power on and hit eject within 0.2s)
Then it goes on to describe some complete different chain of activities, looks like cloning some "ID" from the hardware onto the usb, and then allowing it to be written to another PS3. Whatever.
My point is, Sony put this (buggy) code into the PS3 on purpose, and I guess the original hacking team have reverse engineered part of it, and figured out the rest from leaked documents, enough to get the exploit running anyways. We certainly aren't booting into service mode. It seems that the PS3 USB hacking devices are partial clones of this official sony hardware, and the danger lies in the fact that despite this being "open source", we don't really understand 100% how the exploit works. Microsoft had a nice (lame) trick for their Xbox360 hard drives - the drive contains a "security sector" that is nothing more than a (copyrighted) microsoft logo. I'm just worried you could be hosting some binary Sony logo, without knowing it, or something else that they can complain is "stolen".
Here's a bit more info on service mode: http://www.ps3news.com/PS3Dev/some-playstation-3-service-mode-details-1/
Anyways, the PSFreedom Git hub is here: http://github.com/kakaroto/PSFreedom
Those are easy to clone
wrong window!
just read
http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=1189
just read
http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=1189
first they better shut down every redirector service that doesn't rely on their official DNS:
http://navig8.to/
http://kickme.to/
http://no-ip.com/
etc...
Then we'll be forced to enter IP-addresses manually. Surely that will stop all piracy, because we all know pirates are lazy and stupid and won't know what to do!!
We sure didn't invent like 20 other protocols we could use or anything... I've never heard of anything like Direct Connect, Gnutella2, NNTP (usenet), BitTorrent (with DHT), Kademlia, Soulseek/Nicotine, FastTrack, OpenNap, P2PTV.
These idiots *ALWAYS* try this, they shut down one or two sites that were indexing movies or games or whatever. It makes a difference for like a week, 2 people that probably deserved it end up in trouble, 20,000 morons have to spend a few minutes researching how to steal things again, and most of them figure it out. A couple people that have lots of money and know better than to waste their time are further discouraged. A bunch of lawyers and lobbyists get richer. Some detectives get promoted. And everyone else gets used to the stupidity of the whole thing. I don't know if I should even feel sorry for their wasted efforts. It's nice to see them cluelessly claiming victory over these things, but that effort could be so much better spent on some other problem like homelessness. Of course, the politicians solution would probably be to relocate all the homeless people to another city, or just harass them with police. Are these policy makers just lazy or something? I don't see how it's so difficult to come up with a solution to a problem when you have a proper education...
He's probably reading this?
Hi from Canada!
Send some cigars!
yeah but the video calling only works for skype or gtalk -- not for the actual "real" phone. There's a lot of obstacles to printing, and i don't see much work being done unless a lot of people asked for it. What would you use it for?