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[Dan Lynch]

Long story. The handset costs £500 new from Nokia or you can get it on a £35
a month contract from Vodafone. I actually have this one on extended loan
from Nokia. They sent it to me for review before Christmas. They sent them
to a loads of Linux bloggers and developers in a marketing campaign. They
want it back though at some point sadly. In the meantime I'm having great
fun.

You can find more about it here - http://maemo.nokia.com/

Cheers,

Dan



On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Vodafone don't sell locked handsets anymore, unless the handset is locked
> because of a legal contract with the manufacturer and or because of some
> exclusive deal.
>
> That sounds amazing though, Dan! How much did it cost? If you're on a
> Vodafone contract mate, I can give you one of my eight 30% discount slots on
> your monthly bill if you like?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Crilly
> mrcrilly at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On 29 Jan 2010, at 18:27:55, Dan Lynch wrote:
>
> It runs Maemo <http://maemo.org/> which is basically Debian. Nokia have
> put Maemo on their Internet tablets for a while but this is the first phone.
> You get root access and you can even install stuff with apt-get if you want.
> I've added a few custom repos. It's pretty cool. Completely unlocked, even
> the ones on contract from Vodafone are unlocked. It'll run any Python GTK or
> Qt apps. I installed Vim and QEmacs in the pub to let the guys play with
> them.
>
> Enough advertising though, I'm not on commission honest and I'm fast
> becoming a Maemo bore :)
>
> See ya,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> It has Linux on it or something?
>>
>>  Michael Crilly
>> mrcrilly at gmail.com
>>
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