Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

The first device ANNOUNCED. The tentative shipping dates are pretty much the same, H2 to Q4.

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

The first signs of "Fixed in Harmattan" are starting to show. Just got this on my bug (which has been confirmed as valid and already has a two-line patch upstream):

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

And this bug is actually a regression, since in psmisc was installable in PR1.0.

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

It's not new, is it? I'm sure we've seen quite a lot of that in Bugzilla already over the last few weeks.

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

http://meego.com/community/blogs/val...owards-day-one

"And now to the business: The most important question is of course about the code. We hope to move on here very quickly now. Nokia and Intel have set the target to open the MeeGo repository by the end of this month. I guess this is something that finally will signify the real "Day One" of MeeGo project, a genuine merger of moblin and maemo. What is scheduled to be available then is the first and very raw baseline to a source and binary repository to build MeeGo trunk on Intel ATOM boards and Nokia N900."

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

"That said, please do not take this yet as a commitment to fully productise MeeGo on N900. I am quite confident that we will end up having a really good developer distro for N900 already but committing to stabilise a consumer-grade MeeGo 1.0 (first half this year) for N900 is another story."

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

this would be a kick in the nuts if they didnt have plan to release full meego for n900 :rolleyes:

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

I want to buy an n900 but I'm not sure I should. I hear a lot about the Maemo6/MeeGo and a new device based on scheduled for Q2 this year.
I have to pay 600euros and get stuck with a contract for at least 6 months if not more (depending on what offers I get).
My question now it is, should I buy it or not?
I'm not buying it because I'm a linux developer, honestly I don't know too much about linux but I intend learning a lot more in the near future (although I have some programing knowledge this isn't in my line of studies). I'm a student so 600euros is a lot for me, but I need to change my carrier and I might as well buy a phone with it, and since I get to pay it in monthly rates I might as well treat my self for my achievements and buy a phone that suits me.
I don't want an Iphone, apples policy to openness is... I also hate google for their idea of putting a cookie on everything, etc.
The only brand I like is Nokia.

Right now what n900 offeres is pretty good for me, I mean it offeres everything I might need at this point, BUT it would be pretty stupid for me to buy the n900 now and in 1-2-3 months a new one phone comes out.
I can't afford to buy a new phone too soon.

So what do you say, should I wait or should I buy it now?

My main concerns are: form what I've read Maemo 6 uses Qt, which is different from the current situation, and probably most of the developer will prefer developing in Qt programs compatibles with Maemo 6, and MeeGo and future symbian and will neglect Maemo 5.
Also from what I've read there should be a next update for Maemo 5 which should include Qt. Does this mean that the programs from the other releases will be compatible with Maemo 5? (of course excluding cases when it will be limited by the HW).


So what do you say? And please if you're actually going to be mean, don't answer.

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

PR 1.2 will include QT4.6 and the most Symbian and MeeGo apps written in QT should run on the N900.
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't buy it, if you like the phone.

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

All of that went through my mind before I ordered my n900 too..

In the end I figured that I don't know a thing about the next device & I didn''t want to wait all that time to find out that it doesn't have a keyboard or something similar so I just went ahead and ordered it :D

Killian

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

I love the phone, but as I sad previously, I'm a student, and you all know how it is when you're a student (very low on finance), but I saved money for a new laptop, but in the meanwhile I don't need one anymore (I've got a nice workstation at the university), so now I just think this would be much better for mobility (I commute every weekend and most of my projects are in the field, so again lots of time wasted moving).

I'm still in the doubt, especially since I've read about that usb port problem which I still don't know if they have fixed it (right now I'm waiting for my new carrier to get restock on N900 so I think they should have fixed it )

Re: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
 

There is another thread addressing exactly your concerns:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47837

Re: Harmattan on N900?
 

You need to have a look at a program u can download to the n900. It shows general information on the maemo 6 apps and some of its features. It also gives screen preview of what it 'may' look like. The one majour change for users will be portraid mopde and added apps that can be uised between both systems. You need to look into it more before you judge it. J