Users of Nokia N9 have standard root access

Users of the Nokia N9 by default, root access by a Developer Mode switch in the Settings menu. With root access, users can include a ssh-connection to a desktop set up.

The N9 is a device that is the interest will arouse of developers, thinks the Irish iPhone developer, Steven Troughton Smith, who ontwikkelaarstoestel N950 for a few weeks tried. The iPhone developer is enthusiastic about the interface and calls the equivalent to iOS. Furthermore the Irishman by an nda nothing negative to say about the smartphone. The predecessor of the N9, the N900, was also easy with root access; this was only a appje to be downloaded and a command in the Terminal to be entered.

The N9 is a Nokia smartphone with MeeGo Harmatten, a version of Nokia’s Linux-based operating system Maemo is compatible with Intel’s new operating system MeeGo. Because Maemo is a Debian-variant, the users would many cases can do on a Debian desktop. The N9 has a 3,9″screen with a resolution of 854×480 pixels and runs on a singlecore-Omap3-soc from Texas Instruments.

Nokia has previously indicated that Maemo and MeeGo not many will be used in future smartphones. It is even possible that the N9 is the only MeeGo smartphone of Nokia will prove to be. The N9 is coming next month, in Belgium. The device is not in the Netherlands, because here for the end of the year the Windows Phone smartphone Sea Ray comes out. The Sea Ray is basically the same as the N9, but runs Windows Phone Mango.


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