Following up to my post on the N900, I thought of adding the videos of the N900 too. So without further ado,
And another one which is a small introduction of Maemo,
And as a bonus let me also share a bit of the code that Nokia released to get all you Maemo and Linux based developers started…
/**
* gtk_helloworld-1.c
*
* This maemo code example is licensed under a MIT-style license,
* that can be found in the file called “License” in the same
* directory as this file.
* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.
*
* A simple GTK+ Hello World. You need to use Ctrl+C to terminate
* this program since it doesn’t implement GTK+ signals (yet).
*/#include /* EXIT_* */
/* Introduce types and prototypes of GTK+ for the compiler. */
#includeint main(int argc, char** argv) {
/* We’ll have two references to two GTK+ widgets. */
GtkWindow* window;
GtkLabel* label;/* Initialize the GTK+ library. */
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);/* Create a window with window border width of 12 pixels and a
title text. */
window = g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_WINDOW,
“border-width”, 12,
“title”, “Hello GTK+”,
NULL);/* Create the label widget. */
label = g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_LABEL,
“label”, “Hello World!”,
NULL);/* Pack the label into the window layout. */
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), GTK_WIDGET(label));/* Show all widgets that are contained by the window. */
gtk_widget_show_all(GTK_WIDGET(window));/* Start the main event loop. */
g_print(”main: calling gtk_main\n”);
gtk_main();/* Display a message to the standard output and exit. */
g_print(”main: returned from gtk_main and exiting with success\n”);/* The C standard defines this condition as EXIT_SUCCESS, and this
symbolic macro is defined in stdlib.h (which GTK+ will pull in
in-directly). There is also a counter-part for failures:
EXIT_FAILURE. */
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Now I don’t know how helpful it is, but this is certainly a good way to build rapport with the software programmers. Good going Nokia and Maemo!
Source for the code: http://acurrie.posterous.com/hows-this-for-open-nokia-posts-some-code-to-g
This part of the review we shall delve into the Maps, Internet, N-Gage and the FM transmitter. You can read the previous parts of the review by clicking on these links:
Maps on the N85 is really a good feature to have. However there is a big downside to this application with respect to N85. if you plan to use this where it is sunny, then I’m afraid it’s useless. The AM-OLED screen is just not visible in the sun. You crank up the brightness, but it will be of no help. Only if you can protct the screen from the sunlight is it of use. This means that in a car (if kept properly) it will work great.
I gave it a shot, though I did not load the India map for N85, I tried to see how fast would it lock on to my position using purely the GPS chip. Well the result of which was shocking! The thing took less than 2 minutes to get a lock on my position. That means it was faster than the N96 and the N82 also. from a cold start it takes only about 2 minutes to get a lock on. This is fantastic, I’m sure when you use the Maps with the internet on and everything else, it will be even faster.
What it means is that in case you are lost, you will know where you are in a couple of minutes only. I’m impressed, this is perhaps the tightest integration of Maps I have seen.
It does not have tabbed browsing, which according to me is a very bad thing. I don’t know if other browsers and platforms have such a feature, but the need of the hour is tabbed browsing.
For everyday browsing and other things the browser is more than adept. I would give it a 8.9/10.
The N-Gage is a pleasure to play on this phone. With dedicated keys for gaming, which by the way I found to be small and a bit hard for gaming; and the beautiful AM-OLED screen you can enjoy gaming for many hours.
Since the N96 and the N85 are similar in terms of their form factor, I found little difference (apart from the screens) in terms of the gaming. But I must repeat myself by saying that the gaaming keys are a bit too hard for my tastes and I would have liked the N96 keys on this device.
I would give the N85 a good 8.9/10. The screen orientation taking the score down by half a point. If gaming is your poison, then the N85 is what you absolutely must have. You can click 
The quality of the streaming music is okay and nothing great. One would really need to turn up the volume to hear the song ‘loudly’. For everyday listening it’s good. A convenient feature. This feature is available in countries that allow such a thing. In India, to the best of my knowledge it is not allowed. So chances are that you will not be having this feature on your phone.
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