Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

Here is a working link:
http://carrypad.com/2010/08/06/intel...pt-4th-berlin/

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

It's never ending cycle for Nokia. :) In the 90's Nokia made everything from computers(that was bought by Fujitsu), TVs, amplifiers, phones to DVD players.

I agree that Nokia needs to get it's core business right first, but Nokia got huge opportunity here to make people think MeeGo tablets=Nokia before some high ranking brand makes nice looking hw for MeeGo. I honestly think MeeGo tablet ux got some real possibilities to be something big.

I would love to have Nokia MeeGo tablet because they are locked to MeeGo in whole different way than example Acer and will have all of their current and future services for it, but still not going to wait for 8 months before a device.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

its obvious there will be no MeeGo tablet this year when MeeGo 1.1 will not be complete until October so best we could hope for a MeeGo tablet or smartphone would be early 2011.
remember the smartphone being announced at Nokia world is not strictly MeeGo its more of a Maemo 6, MeeGo hybrid.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

I think this is the biggest threat too. They need to improve their image as an innovator, and now they're giving some other manufacturer the opportunity to make everyone believe they invented MeeGo.

It's not good to stare at the bottom line so much you forget that some devices need to be subsidized with the advertising budget. Don't know if this is what's happening, but I don't buy the line about too many manufacturers entering the tablet market. Nokia already has an OS. Ordering something from Foxconn and slapping a Nokia badge on it shouldn't cause huge losses, and if they can outcompete others with their brand and Ovi support, the product line should become profitable within a year or two.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

If i'm nokia and the choice is to release a maemo/meego hybrid or a true meego 1.1 device, i'd rather wait and release a meego device and not piss off developers and users.

That being said with the way nokia has been going it'll be a maemo/meego hybrid that wont be updated to meego 1.1

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

You know, if a tablet is priced wrong, it'll have to compete with slate PCs... I'm not sure both markets will still be seperate in two-three years. OS-wise.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

Much truth in this. That is why the iPad is in a different position than the anybody else. Macbooks *start* at 1000$ so the iPad always stays below that, both in price and in capabilities/OS. Other manufacturer's tablets are certain to bite into their own netbook/notebook offering, which makes the whole game a lot trickier.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

So you would rather wait until Q2 2011 before seeing a Nokia MeeGo device? Don't forget the most important thing from a developer standpoint is Qt. Qt works on the N900, Maemo/MeeGo hybrid and MeeGo proper devices. The pieces that are different shouldn't bother most developers of end user applications.

And Nokia could easily end upgrade fears by saying that the Maemo/MeeGo hybrid devices will be upgradable to Nokia MeeGo version XX when its available.

That's was the issue with the N900, basically know one knew if it was going to be upgradable and know one at Nokia was saying.

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

I'd rather say it is sad that MeeGo isn't tried and matured on current hardware - here I'm specifically talking about the N900 and the Booklet 3G.

Use the N900 as nusery for the development of a more mature handset MeeGo - the resulat is avoiding the childrens decease that is is bound to be on the first device - having them on the N900 instead of the N9 should be preferable.

Also the Booklet 3G as it is today is drained by the W7 it is preloaded with. Introducing a Booklet 3G version running MeeGo with Netbook would probable result in a much faster experience (This require a stable GMA500 support from Intel) and it should be possible to maintain the battery time (that will be one of the main factors anyway - when Netbook and Webpad manufactorers in the future has to choose a preloaded OS for their creations - otherwise they'll just go for a walk with the Android - not mr. Data).

Many regards
Peter J

Re: Chat With Nokia VP: Meego handheld this year but no Tablet Planned
 

yes awesome,nokia does a interview here and a interview there.meego,tablets,android......
they are talking about anything.
but whats with the 100 question about n900?
ovi maps?
pr1.3?
flash 10.1?
real meego?
real ovi store not this joke?
we get always a ****in maybe....