Ryan

@Styli You're kidding, right? Can you imagine if used bookstores were required to send a fee to book publishers for every used book they sold? Basically, that's a scenario that would put everybody but Amazon out of business.

If you really want a used market with only GameStop, Amazon, and GameFly participating, then sounds like you have exactly the right idea for getting it.

"Remember, when you're handling a 100-foot steel tube 32,000 feet above the earth, you only get one chance to get it perfect."

Given it's a Microsoft flight "simulator", there shouldn't be any issue.

Real gun or not, somebody should probably give that guy lessons is safe firearm handling.

@Mazrael

Or Tremulous. . . .

@Sp4mer

Actually, it's NOT a standard disclaimer. Overclocking the OMAP3 WILL result in shorter life expectancy for the SoC. MTBF is about 50,000 hours at 600MHz and drops very quickly past that. Depending on your luck of the draw with the SoC in your device, you can expect lifetimes as short as a few days when you overclock.

It IS dangerous and it's NOT just a standard disclaimer. :)

@JXCGunrunna

Ability to run at that speed isn't generally in question for most of the shipped units, ability not to die within hours or days is. :)

@sweet greggo

The issue with overclocking the OMAP3 isn't short-term stability, it's long-term SoC reliability due to overvoltage (not an overheating issue). TI has some average lifetime estimates somewhere on their website somewhere, but, basically, knocking an OMAP3430 up to 800MHz can potentially bring your mean time to failure down to under 12 months and potentially much less than that it you're unlucky.

In fact, running it at 550 or 600MHz constantly has an impact on long-term reliability as well (just geometrically less than at 800MHz), which is why everybody shipping the OMAP3430 (Palm, Motorola, Nokia, etc.) has CPU throttling to prevent it from being locked in the top two frequency slots for long periods of time (well, that and battery life ;)).

But, if you're OK will potentially having to replace your phone in a much shorter period of time than is, perhaps, normal, then by all means let 'er burn! ;)

@dragoneye

The only danger is that most modern multi-cell Li-ions and Li-polymer batteries have built-in charge protection circuitry that can be damaged by condensation in high-humidity low-temperature environments like refrigerators.

Um, you guys do realize that the Ovi Store content is HOSTED on a repository, right? That's the whole reason people were able to grab the for-pay packages. They were hosted on a repository and only hidden from the GUI package manager. apt-get could install them without payment.

As long as carriers are involved, expect to wait a while. Maemo is about as close to your requirements as it gets for the time being, though.