Thread: Nokia: Maemo phones won't be tailored for carriers, operators may reject
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2009-09-06 , 09:45
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
Most of us assume that the N900 is ready for mass use, however Nokia may not think the same, so they would prefer a careful and limited launch, to "test their wings" and create a user core.
Well, we do know that there are two more Maemo devices planned for 2010: one Fremantle device in Q1 and a Harmattan device in Q3/Q4. So far, things look pretty similar to Nokia's previous platform introductions:

1. Introduce a rather specialized first device to test the market (see Nokia 7650). See how things go.
2. Introduce cheaper mass-market device with pretty much the same capabilities (see Nokia 3650). See how things go.
3. Start making devices of all shapes and colors, based on the same platform and what people say of the first two devices.

You can see similar pattern with S60e5 (5800, then more devices), N95 (followed by N81, N82, etc), and so on. Thus, based on this prediction, we should see a stripped down mass-market N900 in Q1-2010, then the Harmattan device, and if everything goes well, explosion of different Maemo devices in 2011.
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