Nokia to Reserve Maemo for "High End Devices"
 

Didn't see this article anywhere else on the site yet, so I thought I'd post it.

Nokia to Reserve Maemo for High End Devices

(sort of implies to me that S60 will replace S40 (as Nokia's low end phone OS), and Maemo will replace S60 (as Nokia's high end phone OS))

Re: Nokia to Reserve Maemo for "High End Devices"
 

But the key point here is the "mobile internet devices", which, in my opinion, by no means should be confused with smartphones. I believe these are still going to be quite rare in the future, though not as rare as they were, but still not that mainstream as the rest of the N series phones.

Re: Nokia to Reserve Maemo for "High End Devices"
 

Except of course that the example they gave is, in fact, a smartphone (the N900).

Re: Nokia to Reserve Maemo for "High End Devices"
 

According to whom? Nokia describes it as a "mobile computer".

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From the linked article:

"According to statements made by Jonas Geust, vice president, Nokia N-series players, Nokia plans to use its Linux-based Maemo mobile operating system only on high-end mobile internet devices, such as the N900."

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I don't see "smartphone" in there.

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In what way is the N900 _NOT_ a smartphone?

And, from wikipedia:

Except for the VGA connector (which, for all we know, the N900's video out is VGA compatible), the N900 would seem to fit both example definitions. So I have no problem at all putting it into the smartphone category.

All of which is pedantry, since the article itself says nothing at all about smartphones, that was just nowave7 and I discussing the issue. He could just have easily have said:

and my reply would still have been to the effect that the example that the article gives for that category is an N900.

So, how about replying to the intent of the statements, instead of being pedantic about words that have no precise definition in the first place.

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Nokia doesn't yet consider the N900 a smarpthone, that said, ti does consider it a mobile internete device (MID), and per how they have been marketing N-Series devices over the past years, one could mix the two up pretty easily.

You want definitions of a smartphone (past and present), this piece I did pretty much nails it (Gartner and a few others have weirder approaches to this definition IMO):

Old Definition
New Definition
The N900 fits clearer under the latter than the former due to Nokia's current positioning of itself with Ovi and other web service endeavors. But its all semantics and marketing to be honest; and the N900 isn't designed so much to be a smarter phone, as its designed to be a smarter approach to mobile (data) computing.

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This isn't mere semantics either, johnkzin. While there may some fuzziness in the industry about what a smartphone is or is not, Nokia is very careful in defining product types (to a fault I can assure you as one who used to support demand/supply networks) so it would be a mistake to see the word "smartphone" in a description of Maemo devices. If it's not there specifically, it's not intended to be.

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It wasn't a statement, one way or the other, from nokia about smartphones. It was a generalized comment made in the discussion thread here. It _was_ just a matter of pendantry to quibble over it.