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• update to android 2.2, here provided by t-mobile as update
• for my comparison/thoughts with the n900 see here

Applications can be installed via android market, for already installed apps like google maps: look them up on android-market even if already installed. I.e. for maps newer versions just appear here.

• connectbot as ssh-client, can handle public/private keypairs
• google maps essentials
• google goggles detect content of images
• kanji recognizer good in recognizing kanjis, input by fingerstroke
• Compass simple compass-application
• meboo for instant messaging, jabber etc.
• AndFTP for sftp up/downloads
• astro file manager enables sorting pictures etc. in subdirectories and using the filemanager to access the files. Buildin viewers seem to not handle subdirs nicely.
• My Backup Pro / Titanium for backing up local settings
• WiFi Manager listing available wlan-networks
• google sky map shows starnames
• ^3 media player, aka “cube player”, search for “abrantes” in market. allows useful browsing of albums
• barcode recognition/price searchers: Barcoo App, Woabi App, GEPIR Lite
• maverick navigation, also for cycling/walking, uses multiple maps
• c:geo and Columbus geocaching applications

• configure secure imap on dedicated server:

apt-get install dovecot-imapd
vi /etc/dovecot
# protocols = imap
# disable_plaintext_auth = yes
# shutdown_clients = yes
# mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

• http://unrevoked.com/ - rooting android phones
• http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=628 - forum
• http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328 - custom desire roms
• features the customized roms can maybe provide: nfs, usb-host-mode

• try runtastic: gps/trackrecording etc.

…but the tcp-channel itself stays awake. This is especially bad for ssh-sessions, i am used to have some ssh-sessions open to remote servers. Typical behaviour shown: the channel stays established, but no application-layer-data is sent any more. Since the tcp-channel stays alive ssh doesnt notice. Make it notice in setting

ServerAliveCountMax 1
ServerAliveInterval 15

in ~/.ssh/config for the connection. This lets the ssh-client at least in timely manner notice the connectionloss.

Now for reastablishing the remote-session on the ssh-server: first setup ssh-pubkey-authotization. I did, with ssh-agent, so once the ssh-key is added its available in all my xterms via ssh-agent. Then on the remote box run screen-sessions, i.e. using 'screen -S irssi' and run irssi inside there. From the client we can now run something like this and an aborted connection is reastablished transparently:

while :; do ssh -t user@remotehost screen -rd irssi; done