dude there is a way to make the phone app behave like you want.. go into the phone app, click on the "phone" menu at the top of the screen and hit the "turning control" option! voila! :)
p.s. i watch your videos religiously, look forward to em more than avgn just wish i could watch em on the n900 lol
scratch that i should of watched to the end of your vlog! i guess this will work for your site too!! ace you rock just a little bit more than you did already ;)
600$??? Wow thats pretty cheap(Well kinda not)! Here in norway it costs about 1200$! :O So you lucky american bastards better enjoy your cheap prices. Ah well at least in norway we got high wages.
Concerning videos: it's not the phone, it's combination of Flash using just stupid amounts of resources since Adobe took it over and blip's player being a piece crap. To add insult to injury, Maemo (which is the name of the OS on this phone for those who don't know it) is actually Linux based, and Flash for Linux was absolutely awful from the moment I started to use it (which would be 2006). Only recently it got a bit better.
I'm surprised you didn't bump into that on Ubuntu tbh, especially in Opera. I have to use Firefox for blip videos even though I'm an Opera user since Opera 7.5 (before it was even free) and I love it. Just to illustrate that it's not Opera's fault: watching Youtube videos on my laptop works perfectly with my CPU at 800 MHz while starting a blip video my CPU slams up to it's 2 GHz roof and stays there. Firefox just handles it a bit better, my guess is it's due to Opera using QT so that's additional libraries to load on top of GTK... Here's to Opera 10.5 solving that issue.
Boy, I really went on a tangent here... Well, a little lesson to teach you what we Linux users have to put up with so you don't think Jason moans about some problems just to make excuses I guess ^^
ahh right my n900 is my first proper foray into the linux world and there is a bit of a learning curve! i do seem to remember an ubuntu box i built once sucking playing flash video now you mention it! irritatingly enough firefox for the n900 (the much vaunted fennec) actually sucks.. they've cut flash support for performance reasons and browsing with it really isnt a pleasant experience compared to the built in (also mozilla based) MicroB browser.. was thinking of posting a vlog myself on exactly this issue because i was expecting big things from ff on the n900.. thankfully MicroB is pretty strong on its own! Hopefully better flash support, or a third party app will be forthcoming!
for the record i paid 500 STERLING for my N900 thats about 780 bucks at current exchange rates!! >:-/
I'm currently using the same browser on my TabletPC. You can download a Windows version of Firefox Mobile from the FFM website. It's pretty much the only touch-friendly browser on the platform. Oddly enough, though, I had to drop it to low-priority in Task Manager - the scrolling is a little greedy and that murders the pen driver, which actually makes the scrolling _slower_.
I dig it though, and it seems like a huge step forward in free mobile browsers.
stop calling yourself a loser, cuz youre not.
Hope Spoony doesn't write a C&D now because you used his material! :-o
Also I am scared that T-Mobile made it to the USA, hope they have at least better service then the ones here at the source in Germany :)
Dan :)
I'm hoping that sometime in the near future Greasemonkey gets ported to FF Mobile as an add-on. When it does, this script below should come in handy. It sets all flash animations to low quality by default. It's amazing the difference that makes.
http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Web_Browsers/Force_Flash_Movies_and_Animations_to_Low_Quality.html
On second thought, it wouldn't hurt to learn how to make a Fire Fox extension. I would really appreciate it if the n900 users could download this and give it a try. I need people to try it out before they'll consider putting it in the public Add-on directory. Leaving comments or ratings would also be appreciated, but I doubt very many people have Mozilla add-on accounts.
