Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

I like maemo 5's UI much more. May not upgrade to MeeeeGoooo even nokia offers it.

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

That's the perfect attitude !

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

noneof
02-15-10 , 12:30 PM
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I believe everyone has known moblin and maemo are merging. As a user of N900, I was sad and sorrowful. From the nokia.com, meego.com and intel.com, we've already known that N900 is the last device (and first) which runs Maemo 5 OS. In other words, Maemo 5 is a transitional step walking by NOKIA However, because of the design of hardware of N900 and Nokia's benefit, this device can probably NOT be updated to Meego (note: Maemo 6 doesn't exist any longer). All of these mean WE ARE ORPHANS. Nobody is gonna take of us...
Let's cry...There are less and less softwares we could use; there are more and more bugs we will find. What a tragedy!
Let me use this word "囧" to describe my current feeling!!!


nokia don't say that you we will not get me-ego os


they promise us a upgrade to me-ego os so we will get it
n900 will be one of the first to get that os

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

Err... out of all the things you said the only thing that could possibly be true is the bug fixes.

If the QT cross-compatibility plan works out then the N900 running Maemo 5 (or Mer or if it does get Meego) will be able to run any QT app that any Meego variant runs (Meego itself is not a specific OS it seems, since they plan on it being installable on a variety of devices). So that solves the software issue. Sure some things may not work (e.g. if an app uses multitouch) but that wouldn't work even if you could upgrade the N900 to a Meego device.

And I haven't read anywhere that Nokia promised the N900 would get Meego or Maemo 6 (before the Meego announcement).

Like I said before to another user, you need to seperate software from the OS. Think of it this way, if you have a computer that runs Windows XP, just because it doesn't run Windows 7 doesn't mean it can't run the same apps, as long as the libraries they are based off of are the same.

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

Ok, here's what I don't get. We knew that Maemo 5 was transitional. Seriously, we knew that Harmattan was coming, but fact is Harmattan is now transitional too. Forget the fact that it's being called Meego. Meego compatible (as they first referred to it). Harmattan hasn't changed even though they've taken the Meego branding. Isn't Meego as in the Moblin/ Maemo blend separate from Harmattan?

So if people are ok with Harmattan then people should be ok with Maemo 5 right? Forget about the names. I know I'm being pedantic. If Harmattan is Meego-compatible then isn't Fremantle Meego-compatible because of QT?

IMHO with the announcement of Meego (proper), Maemo 5 and Harmattan are both transitional, regardless of what you call it, right?

BTW, even with all of the angst about Meego, the more I use my N900 the more I like it. Is that wrong?

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

Before nokia released the news about meego. We were in the same position as now. We all knew that maemo 6 were the next step and there were no guarantee that maemo 6 would work on n900. so what has really changed? Nothing.

Dont worry, be happy!

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

Exactly. Not much has changed on the floor plan regarding whether the N900 will be updated to another OS. What's more important is the cross-compatibility of apps. Thus regardless of the OS you run, as long as you can take a QT app developed on the N900 and run it on a Meego device, and likewise take a Qt app developed on a Meego device and run it on the N900, then we're good.

Interestingly, I don't know how Intel or Nokia plans on supporting Meego OS wise across any device. With their proclaimed plans for the Meego OS it seems that the OS will be running on different platforms with many different configurations (touch screen, no touch screen, keyboard, no keyboard, bluetooth, no bluetooth, etc..)

That should make supporting Meego... rather interesting from a bugfix perspective. Especially as you factor in numerous hardware possibilities. Even companies like Microsoft have trouble with that.

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

wtf?? are this all kiddie here?? i can not understand why are you crying? what i m think is i piss on meego... maemo sounds anyway cooler... why i should cry and loose much time with research about things whitch will be in summer or later? i'm happy with my n900 and maemo5 here and now.... i'm happy that i can do things with my n900 witch i can never do with a iphone or a blackberry... so tell me why should i cry?? when meego comes out maemo5 will be as good as bugfree.... and i rather have a working maemio5 than a brnd new buggy meego...
and when you remember every nokia had his bugs in the beginnig...

btw... anyone who is asking why he cannt update his n900 to meego could also ask why he cannot update his nok 3310 to symbian 9.2.... ;)

my point is: i'm happy with the device i bought... and anyone who isn't should return it as fast as he can.....

sry for my bad english

greetz from austria.....

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

Exactly! It is clear from interviews there has never been any plan to update the OS on the n900. The meego announcement has just brought it to people's attention. Nokia doesn't have a mindset of updating phone OS on existing models- just bug patches to the existing OS.

Perhaps all the attention this is getting with n900 will get Nokia to change their thinking which has to be a good thing!

a posting on why yet not plan update for n900
http://techifile.blogspot.com/2010/0...t-yet-get.html

Sad thing is app compatibility may well be an issue looking at the announcement, but not because of meego

Re: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
 

I havent read the whole thread so apologies if this has already been picked upon but...

Has anyone noticed the the N900 is on the home page of
Meego.com??

http://www.meego.com

I know it is just marketing, but it is interesting that they would use the N900 if Meego isnt going to be available for it??