Openness of the Nokia N9? Rooting? Just activate in settings…
How do you install things from non-store sources? Complicated rooting? What about Settings>Applications>Installation>Allow installation from non-store. DONE.
Now just click to install a repository, you don’t need to do anything more.
Rooting the phone. Sounds a bit scary. Not to fear, this is in something called ‘Developer mode’ which is just as easy to get into. What complicated trickery must you do to root your phone? Following lessons from the N900, they’ve made it even easier on the N9. Again, just go into settings. Switch developer mode on.
As mentioned in the video, being a consumer product, this is something mass consumers would NOT want so it’s off and you can turn it back off. But it’s there if you ever wanted to tinker (since the N950, though free, are restricted to a small number of developers)
Cheers crisscross for the tip
Goodbye Android Community
No kidding, IF Elop is kicked out.
Won’t happen. He is “moving along as planned”. Otherwise he wouldn’t have been hired there at all. Mistakes of this magnitude don’t happen.
So for non-rooting users, what does that bring us in the longer run?
On a separate note, I love how this is supposed to be a niche device on a “dead-end” platform, yet it comes in three colours, two of which are very feminine which indicates a mass appeal for *women* )as well as men!) On top of this, it features a micro-SIM (hello bored iphone owners
) and an interface I would be comfortable teaching my mum or wife on how to use.
I can sum this up as one thing – pre February designers and N9 programmers said “eff you” to upper management and went all out in creating a truly unique device with a mass appeal which won’t be tanked even if Elop has his way.
I’m sorry but I just don’t see N9 failing… it’s too good as it is, and nothing can change that right now. People, you want to piss off MS, Elop, Jobs? BUY THIS DEVICE WHEN IT COMES OUT!
if only they were effed up a bit earlier. Then this whole mess of being effed up wasn’t necessary.
Well here it is failing, prices for the phones are $660 / $750
I doubt everyone can afford it, i probably will have to go without food
been trying to loose some weight, i guess nokia is good for overall health 
without food? Good for health?
My apple friends would like to say hi.
+1
660 is ok for me. 32 gb is enough. this will be my last nokia if no meego
It’s a high-end smartphone, this is the price segment they live in, I’m afraid. You might be able to get a better end-price by locking up with a carrier to subsidize the price for you.
For non-rooting users, this does nothing for you directly. Indirectly, it leads to a lot of enthusiasm on the part of programmers. A lot of coders I know like and run linux at home. If they can easily root and hack the device, they will use it as their phone. If they write software, they are more likely to write software they themselves will use on their own cell phone.
TLDR: It encourages geeks to write you software!
True, problem is that this will probably not give it such a much higher appeal to mainstream users. They do not want to root their phones, or use developer mode. On my N900 I had to activate the testing repository to get a ton of apps that never made it into the main repository.
Geeks will root and turn into developer mode, and write stuff that are useful for them. Many of them wont care enough about designing software that is simple and slick, they want to create stuff that can do a lot of things. That is fine for me, doesn’t help my mother.
I think what you need to attract is not geeks, but you need to show the commercial values of developing applications for your platform. Second you need to make it as easy as possible for non-geeks/programmers to manage to implement their sometimes bright ideas. Then you have a sustainable platform in today’s market.
All said, I’m fairly positive I might get this phone. I loved my N900 to death (literally, it died some weeks ago). Sometimes it was annoying not to have the big app selection of Android, but on the other hand it was so empowering. With the addition of a superior map application, better processor and perhaps most importantly, more memory, this looks like a great update. Even if the platform might be dying on phones, I think it will survive through the lifetime of this phone.
This phone has a html5+css3 (mostly) compliant browser and it’s theming capabilities appear to be XML/HTML+CSS too. The herd of web developers that actually writes software aimed at “other than themselfs” will seriously have a challenge and something new and fun to play with here.
Particulary since the orientation of the device is available for the javascript on the page allowing websites to switch orientation, not to mention that gestures and touch events are also available (not only “mouse” clicks, the real deal here.)
That said, it’s html5 with a good support for audio and video and I for one will be making a web-based streaming solution for my archive of media.
And if the javascript engine is fast enough, particulary since it supports SVG rendering, it might be a new and simple platform to develop sharp-looking HTML+CSS+SVG+JS games on.
This phone offers more in terms of room for innovation than any other before it.
Best up, the upcoming iPhone and competitors will also be able to use these web-development features, so cool things made for those might very well work out just fine on the N9.
This if course won’t even need “developer mode”
Eyy! I tipped you about that first! :p haha nvm
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Woaaah! Terminal mode? Debian files? Repositories? Can’t even imagine what this phone can do!!!! If the non-GHz N900 can run Gingerbread perfectly, I wonder how this N9 will perform. Want!!
It seemd that the N9 is truly disruptive device. In fact it is so disruprive to Nokias WP strategy that Elop has to leak a video of similare hardware running WP to try to take away the attention from it.
+1
http://www.mobileinfoplanet.com/2011/06/23/is-nokia-in-for-a-dilemma-with-the-n9/#comment-282
You think we could put Meegfo on that Windows Phone seeing as it has similar harware put possibly with dual core???
OK that’s it. I’m bying this phone for christmas. My E51 is getting little old anyways. Root was my last concern as a linux users. This is unbelievable. I was just about to start looking for ZTE, LG or someone to do linux phone, Then nokia hits the ball out of the court and in to the Earth orbit. Damn you Nokia this yo-yoing must end. It’s not healthy for my nerves. I know we finns usually have low self-esteem, but you are taking it to the extreme.
I was looking at the UI and thinking “this is clearly mass consumer UI they must have prevented root so that people don’t do rm -r /* by accident. D*mn I need terminal access.”. Instead they thought about that and implemented root access elegantly. Didn’t see the message, but in typical Nokia way it is probably going to read “Do not active developer mode, if you don’t know what you are doing. Developer mode is meant for developers ans programmers. you can render your phone unusable by using Developer mode. You are using developer mode with your own responsibility.”.
By the way, if I have to use one word to describe this phone it is “Elegant”. They seems to have the same config jungle as before, but even that seems to be rearranged to one simple listing.
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Actually Jay, Android phones also have that in the settings (unless removed by the operator) and they allow you to install apps from outside the Market. Rooting is not for installing non-Market apps, but for installing apps that require further digging in the system or for installing custom ROMs.
So sorry, no props for the N9 there. Even Symbian phone have that setting to allow All Applications installation.
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