Thread: Should MeeGo developers continue to publish info on this forum for maemo users (wrt Nokia device support)?
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tekki is offline tekki
2011-09-02 , 04:36
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Ofono was another Nokia/Intel attempt to make a go at making a "common base" for phone/PDA/handset architecture. It was a nice idea, but it was so open and non-specific as a base that few projects formed around it or adopted it. Those that did all interpreted or implemented the spec slightly differently, and none of it was every really cross compatible.
I'm not entirely sure if you understand oFono correctly (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) - it's a component to provide a telephony stack, ie, implement modem drivers, provide a D-Bus interface. It effectively replaces N900's SSCD/libisi, etc. It's not a platform/linux distribution.

It's kind of like BlueZ and ConnMan or NetworkManager

[1] http://ofono.org/

I wouldn't exactly call it a failure when you can do high-quality telephone calls on a N900 with it, but that's my own view.
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