Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

To be honest, I use the FM feature quite often (car, GF's home stereo, etc) and it even turned out to have some educational value, as my GF was all of a sudden convinced of the importance of correct MP3 tagging, when she saw the song info nicely displayed on her car stereo screen, along with the tag Nokia N900.

I guess it just proofs Gerbicks' point that we all have our own way of using this device, according to our private preferences.

I am no phone expert, but as far as I can tell, the N900 is the most open phone I could possibly have right now. The N9 just doesn't appeal to me much. But truth be told: Before the N900 I have never ever been very enthusiastic about any phone I owned.

The idea of convincing manufacturers to get rid of their old stock by making maemo devices of them sounds intriguing, I must say.

I do find it bizarre that in none of the 4 countries I frequent (SP/NL/GE/UK) the N9 will be available. That does not look as if Nokia is really willing to stand behind Meego.

Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

All platforms have APIs to interact with things, should we call iOS, WP etc "open" because of that too?

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I don't think that is what CG was arguing.

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Damn if they make it a N950 TMO limited edition and ride the bandwagon of hypebeasts and collab with some cool brand of some sort and set a premium price on it and have a 100 unit run or something, I would still try to make a way to get it. Just sayin.

Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

Not sure how much of a geek phone would this be/have been, but anyone know what happened to LG GW990?

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I could go into a technical rant about this, but what you said is basically enough. The code that actually launches the apps is open source. I gave a glimpse for Maemo 5, and I just confirmed that applauncherd has similar hooks for Qt apps.

These Maemo/MeeGo OSes are the_sh*t; serious hacker's delight.

Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

Curb your enthusiasm, sir! We flog/hang/burn people for less than that here. :rolleyes:

Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

it isnt hard to make a geek phone and it could also be a hit with android power users if a slick ui is included

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no one will target the true geeks with a mobile because this niche market couldn't be filled with one device nor three completely. The cause of this market "******ity" is the case that the biggest religious wars over HW ( keyb vs keyboardless, capacitive vs resistive, and so on) and Over SW are taking place between the true geeks.

Re: Who is going to make a geek phone?
 

Apple has shown you can make a killing with 15 to 20 percent of a given market. I'll bet most populations have that many geeks these days.