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ajalkane is offline ajalkane
2011-10-09 , 20:23
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
I don't buy the argument that Meltemi must be dumber just coz it's in the traditional featurephone/dumbphone segments.
All the pundits are pointing to Android scaling down to what was featurephone territory soon, w/little to no dumbing-down.
And Nokia needs to compete on that front....
My prediction is that Meltemi is not just maemoX. It will be massively stripped down compared to N9. It is replacement for S40. Smarter than S40, but it still needs to have a LONG battery life. So not like maemo, with a linux distro beneath it. Instead very stripped down system, probably with quite small screen to preserve battery also.

Of course, it may act as some sort of backup plan if/when WP strategy backfires. But in it's coming incartation I don't think it's nothing that many of us want, a linux distro on a phone.

So don't be fooled by that the hw specs might look powerful enough. These phones need to have long battery life, meaning quite different OS.
 

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