Re: More Pics Of Aava Running MeeGo
 

I still just can't understand why they wouldn't continue Maemo development. Is it because the UI is based on gtk?

When you consider how many tens of thousands of hours must have gone into it.. mafw.. their bt stack.. the contacts/events/calendar framework.. widgets and the desktop.. and what a superb system it is.. it's a crying shame. :(

I feel like I'm waking up from the dream of a pocket debian workstation to yet another badly implemented iphone knock-off.

Re: More Pics Of Aava Running MeeGo
 

Don't forget the MeeGo UX everyone is complaining about is a pre-alpha reference implementation. Nokia's Harmatten/MeeGo implementation or their MeeGo proper implementation might not look anything like the reference implementation. The reference implementation is there as open source software, so hardware vendors can install it and have something working on their devices . It's not something you ship as a final UX with your products.

Re: More Pics Of Aava Running MeeGo
 

Certainly not *bound*, but going X86 would be a major switch (and in the first couple of iterations done via an OEM). As for rapidly... Moorestown is still not in the same league and Medfield products will appear well into 2011. As if that wasn’t bad enough, by then Cortex-A9 based designs will be mainstream and also going 32nm, so it won’t be enough to just address power concerns, but they will need to push on the performance envelope, too (an area Atoms had minimal improvements in the past year). I’m not saying they can’t pull it off, but the odds are against them (unless major idiocies happen, like Apple buying out ARM or sorts).