Thread: This is not another shipping thread!
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Eric G is offline Eric G
2009-10-22 , 04:46
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#13
Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
What I'm intrigued by (Knowing that we have been privy to so much more pre-release performance data than any other cell phone in the past.) is the amount of "If the N900 doesn't have 'X', it's a deal breaker" or, "I can't believe Nokia will ship a phone that can't do this" posts in addition to the "When is it going to ship" posts... Sometimes both types of posts were made by the same people.
That's an interesting observation. I've not paid much attention to the "deal breaker" posts, mostly because I know what I have in the N810 and everything I see is an expansion/improvement over that. I'm also looking forward to messing around with QT (I haven't programed anything more complicated than an Access DB since high school, and I've tried to learn C in the past only to get frustrated shortly after "hello world"), but I'm thinking of a few specialized programs that might be fun to mess with.

In fact, the only thing that would be a deal breaker for me at this point is if the browser has a lot of fatal flaws, or the whole machine has some BSOD-like bug that would cause it to lock up or crash. But I've seen the stability of Linux and the N8xx platform, and even though this is a major update, it's still Maemo Linux at the core.

But I guess I'm a patient person. I was hoping it would ship this week so I could have it for a convention I'm going to next week, just to try my hand at blogging from the event, but I can still do 90% of that with my N95 and laptop, it just won't be as new and exciting -which may be a good thing, since I can focus on the convention instead of the new toy.

It is interesting how much the iPhone has changed the conversation though. Since Apple released the SDK (actually since the jailbreakers came along would be more accurate), the focus for the entire industry has been third party applications. I have an N95 that has a few 3rd party apps, and that was considered odd even a few months ago. Ringtones were about the only downloaded thing for most people. The IT is something else... a phone you can program yourself, if you're so inclined. The first time I type sudo gainroot in the terminal and see that I have the power to rm -rf / (but I won't) will signal a massive change in the cellular handset industry, even if most people won't understand why. I guess I think it is better to focus on what it can do (and is capable of doing) than what it can't right now today.

Now hurry up and ship the darn thing!