Monday, 1 Feb 2010
wazd, our prolific community graphic designer, is helping qwerty12 with the UI for his port of Transmission, a Bittorrent client; allowing the user to download (legal) content from various places on the Internet.
Those of us who received loan devices at the Maemo Summit have been using pre-production firmware; until now: The Nokia N900 is landing in the hands of real users with the Maemo 5 final release that we have been polishing in the last weeks. The fortunate users of a pre-production Nokia N900 are encouraged to flash completely their devices in order to have them as they come out of a sales box. Simultaneously released is the final release SDK, allowing developers to run the same environment on their device and in Scratchbox.
milhouse has asked the Forum Nokia folks behind the device discount programme (DDP) as to the warranty included in the half-price N900s available to high-profile members of the community, and the news isn't good: The devices that are sold through the Discounted Device Program (DDP) do not have Nokia's standard Product warranty. If the device that you receive is defect, you can return it within one (1) week from the purchase with a written note explaining what the defect is. Obviously, this has caused some consternation; and it's not yet clear what happens after the one week has expired.
