Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

you know, for some reason what you wrote, makes to me, sense
ill buy the N900 and in 2yrs replace it with the ultimate thing...but first i need to push Nokia to remake the EU keyboards lol

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

I want what I've been saying all along: Effectively, an N800-like device: two full sized SDHC slots--preferably, with at least one I can get at without opening dumb door or kickstand with, no cell phone, keep it cheap but effectively a little computing device like the N800. Take what was a SUCCESSFUL and UNIQUE market and improve on it--not morph it into an iPhone wannabe. :P heh

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

I totally agree with you that there should have been an N800 upgrade (no key board and a gps that works). The only thing that I didn't like about my N800 was the lack of gps. A $30 bluetooth gps receiver took care of that limitation. By the way, I totally removed my kickstand.

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Hmm the idea could be most phones have GPS, and they can export it via BlueTooth, allowing your N800 or N800-follow-up-device to use that.

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Totally? :p

Tim

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

I inadvertantly removed mine. This was one of a couple of elements that kicked off a lot of my rants about my lousy experiences with Nokia's aftermarket support for parts and repairs.

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

BTW: I wouldn't know where to check, but are there still any traces of this mysterious RX-71 in the current code or is it gone for good? (I assume it is, otherwise the speculation wouldn't have stopped...)

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

No news about rx-71.

The code did not vanish but there is no new RX-71 code added. From the changelog it feels to me like they branched the source and keep rx-71 version elsewhere (which is normal). Also some comments do mention rx-51-specific version of something so there are definitely other versions of same thing. But this is not news, it is understandable that there are more devices in the pipeline.

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

It is an interesting aspect, though, because at the moment there's two theories:

While everybody assumes there will be more Maemo devices in the future, some seem to be deeply convinced that the N900 will remain the only Maemo 5 model and any following handset will already run Maemo 6.

Others believe that there will be at least one more Maemo 5 model and Maemo 6 is too far away to think of it hardware-wise.

Having what you describe in the code for Maemo 5 makes a 2nd M5-model more realistic, doesn't it?

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Those who have been reading Mobile-review.com know about Eldar and Eomer. You can decide what you believe, but both have said that there is one more Maemo 5 device after n900(the normal story of qwertyless, more megapixels and Eomer said that it's the first phone to take the HD future of Nokia... whatever that means).
Third phone would have Maemo 6.

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Oh wow! I found a picture!
Diamond shaped!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kansirnet/128873407/

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Well, I'll agree that Nokia has never shied away from interesting or outright... unusual... shapes for their phones. But will it come with or without the poo colored edging?

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Poo colored edging FTW!

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Just found a Qt Creator bug report mentioning RX-71 ("rx71-harmattan-1021") from June 2010:

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-1686

The commit that fixes that bug (relatively unspectacular, but at least it exists):

83edceafe48f9a2102c7d6ea977aa890210aa661

Re: What we do realistically see in the RX-71
 

Way ahead of you. ;)

Thought i doubt this means much as if RX-71 ever comes out as final product(especially thinking it's age). It might still be used for testing.