[Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Hi people, I would like to replace my N900 by a black Nokia E7 with Maemo5 inside, what do you think guys ? could it be possible one day ? am I alone who have this wish ? thanks for your reply.
Please Nokia could you make that for Christmas... :cool:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6654/nokiae7.png

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

no multitouch support in maemo5... this would certainly be an issue, and the n8 hasn't been moded so far to accept an other OS so might not happen.
that's only my point of view ;)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

Thanks, but I think that nokia could find a solution to resolve an issue like this one.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

That assumes Nokia even remotely cares about Maemo 5. All evidence points to the contrary (and the recent firmware update with a few changes does not change that).

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

The closest solution to your problem is known as MeeGo.

http://www.mobiiliblogi.com/wp-conte...okia_N9_e1.jpg

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

yes and eventually it can be skinned to look like maemo5 :)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

Yes but no, there will be a too long time to wait for have the N9, and I'm not talking about a nice meego finish release inside...
Maemo 5 is really the best experienced OS actually for me, personnaly I don't want to see it die now, at least until meego will really exceed it one day.

Sorry for my bad english

Edit : about multitouch, remember guys what was planned with maemo 6 before ...

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

For one moment when i read the titlle, i though that nokia going to put maemo on others phones and support it, but then got down when read the thread.

Anyway, i don't think nokia put effort on do that.

Grettings.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo5 !
 

cpu is too weak for maemo

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

So they just have to make one for symbian^3 and another one for maemo 5, what else ? :p


However, this would be my dream phone at this time, anybody else ?

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

The N9 is an E7 form-factor with MeeGo. The above picture is 90% finished hardware.

Wait a few months, and your prayers will be answered.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Surely I'll buy a N9, but I think we'll have to wait a long time to get a good experienced meego product as maemo as for handsets today.

This E7 under maemo could be a very nice transition IMO.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Beyond driver and performance issues, the E7's display is only 640x360. Even if the closed source portions of Maemo 5 otherwise accept the E7's hardware, likely they will be broken by the display. The proprietary portions of Fremantle include enough hard coded assumptions about the N900's display to make system-wide portrait mode on the N900 unobtainable, after all.

I'll go a step further and hazard a guess that many of the existing apps in Extras would also dislike the reduced screen resolution of the E7. So, more breakage. More porting. More writing replacements. In the end, at best you'd wind up with a function-alike of Maemo 5 with a reduced app catalog.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Like previously said the screen is nHD and CPU is ARM11 680mhz and Broadcomm GPU. I don't think we will see Maemo inside E7 done by the community and i can already tell for certain that Nokia wont be doing it.

N9 with MeeGo-Harmattan is still partly Maemo product. Problem of course is that it's not even announced yet. :)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Then i suppose that nokia couldn't make two E7 with differents 4" LCD screen, 640x360 for symbian and 800x480 for maemo ? Is it really unthinkable ?

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

n900 has far better specs,exept the display and cam.so it would be a downgrade.
and symbian isn't open source(correct me if im wrong)so no port at all.
forget it

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

With the n9 on the way, yes.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

In what (hardware) way would you think the E7 is a transition (okay, Clearblack/HDMI, but other than that) ?

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

I'll argue both points :) Display is lower res (clearblack notwithstanding), and cam is way below what the N900 has (I'll trade a few megapixels for focus any day). Symbian IS open source, but that won't help you in any significant way.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

for me :

better form factor, 4" screen, fantastic slide keyboard, usb on the go, thickness,...

but autofocus for apn is missing I saw.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

yeah but is it worth to update a phone cause of 3-4 upgrades?
my advice:
make it like me and wait for the n9.
far better specs,good look and the best-meego.
i use the time to put the money aside ;)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

The keyboard really is great, but don't forget the form factor does come at a price - slower CPU (not even binary compatible with the N900), no microSD (-16GB flash) and smaller (non-replaceable) battery, which would certainly not help in a Maemo context. USB OTG is OTOH at least as much the question of software as it is hardware (i.e. Maemo would likely still require extensive hacking to gain proper OTG on current E7 hardware). All in all, I'd actually say that if it had Maemo, I'd rank it somewhere between the N810 and the N900... Which doesn't mean it's bad, just that it's a way better Symbian device than a Maemo one.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Well, I think it's really the time for manufacturers to make possible the way to buy a personnalised smartphone like it's already exist in informatic world !

then finally I could choose my dream phone :rolleyes: :D

Black E7 look like, Maemo 5 OS (mono or multitouch I don't care about, I like resistif screen and stylet), 4" screen display, APN & xenon flash same as N8, USB Host, HDMI, FM transmitter, Compass, etc etc.......

Don't you see there's always something missing in whatever device lol ?

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

If you're fond of Android 2.2, you can have your own custom phone built for you today.

EDIT: It appears they've disabled ordering.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Yes thanx I saw this offer a few days ago, but it's seems that I am a nokia addict :D
And infortunatly I don't like android, also this manufacturer is new and unknow to my knowledge, I only trusted in nokia manufacturing for what I saw until now.
Nice will be the day when nokia will propose the same deal ! :)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

looks nice and you can order 1024 mb of working ram!!
and a 1500mah battery!!!
nice things but no hardware keyboard and android are 2 big points for me against this.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

I would like the n8 running Maemo 5 in portrait mode. (But I know its never gonna happen!) :(

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

I am so surprised that Danramos didn't post a picture of fail or something like this:
http://images1.cpcache.com/product/4...x480_Front.jpg

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

can condoms be replaced by leaves?
they can be more environment friendly :)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

Went from my N900 to a Galaxy S some time back when Nokia dropped the ball. Was hoping the E7 could have been an option but firstly, it's Symbian, secondly the hardware sucks so no hope of installing maemo etc...

Alien Dalvik may come out on Symbian i guess. Even though some hate Android, you can't beat the amount and quality of the apps.

Why do I keep hoping and wishing that Nokia could ever get it right :( sniff.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

This is looking like a nice option (if feasible) now that Nokia are dragging their feet massively wrt n950 :( (some folk are even speculating Q4 now)
Particularly if the rumors are true, and the one Meego phone they release won't be qwerty.

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

the nokia E7 looks like a great phone
look at the nokia e7 sar level .
;)

Re: [Survey] Nokia E7 with Maemo 5 ?
 

If you are unhappy with that, look at the apple products on that site... :)