Thread: Future of Internet Tablets
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SD69 is offline SD69
2008-11-02 , 21:47
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#198
Why can't the "N900" be it? You don't like the UI, change it. If you'd prefer LXDE, KDE, WindowMaker, FluxBox, install it over the top. Nokia have committed to differentiating themselves at the "upper" levels of the stack, and opening as much as possible of the lower levels.
The N900 could be it, but how much different will it be from N8xx? Yes and no as to changing the UI. There's been talk that the next UI could take the D-pad and other hw keys away. Sorry, but if they do, you can't put them back in.

Personally, I'm confident that Maemo 5 (incl. the next generation of Hildon) will be the best UI available for my use cases. YMMV.[/
You can have faith but you can't be confident. We don't even know for sure what next Hildon will be.