Thread: Mobile world congress 2009 status
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epertinez is offline epertinez
2009-02-16 , 12:55
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#27
Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
Well, it's our job to convince you of the opposite.

On the HW-side of things, we have pretty much said already what we've got: HSPA data, OMAP3 processor, 3D HW-graphics acceleration, and high-definition camera.

What remains the same is our mission for Maemo: high-end Nseries devices with large touch screen that you can put into your pocket (by the way 600g does not fit that category).
Sorry, but I'm not sure it is enough. HSPA data includes phone calls or not? Is it going to be a phone or you'll have to carry arround your phone with you also? Two things in your pocket or just one?

Looking at the device sexinness is crucial to have an idea about its success.

N97 is sexy. N96 wasn't that sexy (IMHO). And that is because of the HW and the SW parts.

Here we have no info about key features of the sw neither. Is the next Maemo going to have a good integrated PIM? Is it going to have a good integrated Photos program? Is it going to have good integrated media visualization SW? Or we will depend on Canola unintegrated way of creting things?

Is it going to have no phone but good OVI PIM? Or is it going to have no phone but good program to edit your phone's PIM? Or nothing at all as today?

All of this info is crucial to be able to decide if Maemo Tablets are going to be something you can replace all your company phones with or just another niche machine that sooner or later will die.

I understand nothing can be said about all of these now, because everything is being cooked. But we as users simply don't know how much cooked all those parts are or even if they are going to exist some time, so we are simply nervious.