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Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

Come on, show a bit of jaded European cynicism! CNET covers stuff when it is good and ready to cover it, at its convenience. I'm sure it will get around to this world-shaking news at some point. This is just a phone.

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

i think i spotted some cnet coverage, tho i guess its dropped of the front page (or never made it there) thanks to snow leopard and some other stuff...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10319133-94.html

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by tso (Post 318373)

This is quality journalism. Quotes are made, related facts are stated, references are made. Not heavy words like I'll quote now are used, nor are compares made with competitors.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/0...00-in-october/

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In backwards order, Nokia has finally launched the N900 after we've already seen a review and countless leaks. Nevertheless, it's good to have the new Maemo 5 Internet Tablet out in the open and official-like. The specs include a 3.5-inch 800x480 pixel (resistive) touchscreen, sliding QWERTY, 32GB of on-board storage expandable to 48GB via microSD, GPS/A-GPS, FM transmitter, TV-out, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi, 1320mAh battery, and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash. Better yet, this monster MID brings the power of the ARM Cortex-A8, up to 1GB of application memory, and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration to make quick work of polygons and what Nokia promises will be a "PC-like experience on a handset-sized device." It also brings a Mozilla-based Maemo browser with Adobe Flash 9.4 support. As expected, it'll be on display at Nokia World next week before this quad-band GSM/EDGE, 900/1700/2100MHz UMTS/HSPA handset heads to select markets in October for €500 (pre tax and pre carrier subsidy). And by the looks of that 1700MHz band, this baby's heading to T-Mobile USA.

While informative, still too opiniated. The next one however is even worse.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/0...-to-pre-order/

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Now that Nokia's Maemo-powered N900 is looking mighty nice and official, the company's Germany and Italian arms have no problem going ahead and taking your hard-earned Euros in exchange for a pre-order. Both sites are actually listing it for €599 (US $860), or €99 more than what we heard yesterday. A pretty huge discrepancy, to be sure, but it's not unlike Nokia to have a flagship phone fluctuate in price. That October release date is a ways off, but if you're absolutely convinced this must be in your pocket by Halloween, you know where to go.

This is not quality journalism. This is biased pub talk. The writer isn't able to discern his/her own viewpoint which is what a journalist does when he/she writes an news article. Nokia doesn't appear to be contacted (audi alteram partem; a value traditionally also part of journalism), no quotes are made, references to background are not provided.

I don't know this website Engadget, I have my own news sources (which I am content with). Judging from these 2 articles written by Engadget its not a good news source to be taken seriously.

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Originally Posted by attila77 (Post 318293)

Basically they said it sucks because it's resistive, and that the Nokia design (device, logo, font and whatnot) is several years behind. They *kind of* said Maemo holds potential (manage to mispronounce it even though one guy actually tries to say it correctly), but absolutely no detail as to why do they think it's so. They also make a clueless comments about Symbian (it runs Symbian apps, right ? Umm, yea, it probably virtualizes it somehow... I guess). Peppered with a few internal jokes that's about it.

The stuff they said held zero, ZERO connection to what they wrote (or paid someone to write) in the engadget articles.

Time to sue them for libel/defamation ;)

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

Well, Engadget is definitely a biased blog. There are even rumors that the fruit seller pays them to cover their stuff in extra greatness. I think, they paid them this time too to not cover a non-fruit N900. Any thoughts?

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Originally Posted by vkv.raju (Post 318388)

They definitely are biased, but i doubt they are paid off by apple. The thing is that apple is very famous especially in the US. They have a cult following. There are also people who hate apple equally. Once engadget posts something about apple both sides fight it out in the comments and engadget gets more hits.... which is all that they care about.

Either you absolutely love apple or you absolutely hate it..... there is no middle ground for apple.

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Originally Posted by sachin007 (Post 318389)

there is no middle ground for apple.

I don't whole-ly love nor hate them :-)

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by sachin007 (Post 318389)

i suspect one part of the annoyance with engadget is that they channel hipster attitude into the tech world.

but then i think the site started out as a opinion blog, not a classical news site.

basically, they are the largest of a breed of rapid fire geek/hipster tech/lifestyle news/blog, with the weight towards the right of the slash. Tho i guess the oldest of its kind of slashdot ;)

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Originally Posted by johnkzin (Post 318397)

I don't whole-ly love nor hate them :-)

love their products, hate their control freak policies?