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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by dave1010uk on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:29AM (#3975424)
Maemo (as used on the Nokia N900) :

    On the device, tap the menu button, then tap "Xterm"
    Type in 'nano helloworld.py'
    Enter the text 'print "Hello, World!"'
    Ctrl-x, ctrl-s to save the file
    Enter 'python helloworld.py' and press enter
Of course, as Maemo is based on Debian, you can easily install Ruby, PHP or even a C compiler.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by nickik on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @04:12AM (#3975543)
To bad nokia is fucking stupid, they had pure gold there.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by bnr on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:05AM (#3975794)
Too bad no consumer cares for that kind of gold.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by tobiasu on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:25AM (#3975858)
citation needed...

WP: Despite a modest launch and a limited distribution in terms of markets, Nokia's N9 model has reached sales estimated between 1.5 and 2 million devices. According to Nokia's own quarterly report and analyst company Canalys analyses, the combined deliveries of the comparable Lumia devices summed to approximately 1.2-1.5 million in the last quarter.

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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by pilsetnieks on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:31AM (#3976449)
N900 is a completely different device, unrelated to N9.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by pessimizer on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:10AM (#3976615)
The N9 is the next in the series after the N900, and aside from a lot of very cute UI changes, and a lack of a keyboard (which was relegated to the N950), it still runs on Maemo (though branded MeeGo) and is a Linux phone.

Oh, and they switched to rpms from debs, I think. I can see how that would make you think they were unrelated:)

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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by Geee on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:09AM (#3976608)
N9 uses basically the next version of the same OS, so they are very much related.
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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by admg on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @08:16AM (#3976188)
Still using that phone, really is brilliant.

They had a 'dev only' successor to it, the n950 but I think the chances of nokia releasing another is slim at best.

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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by WickyNilliams on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @05:37AM (#3981290)
Android:

    Download AIDE from play market
    Enable apps from untrusted sources
    Start coding
    Run your app!
AIDE really is a fantastic achievement, i had a play about with it when my laptop died a few weeks back and i was itching for some coding! It's a fully-fledged development environment with code completion, refactoring and many other cool features. Something surreal about writing android apps on an android device!
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