Thread: N900: The First Impressions Thread
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2009-12-02 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by sljonson View Post
The N900 and Maemo is a new OS platform for Nokia's phone. It don't have the legacy of many man-years of code development the rest of the N series and other phones have. They why it's missing things like Voice Dialing, MMS, etc. Nokia is having to develop a new phone virtually from scratch. They needed to make compromises in the phone's feature set so they could get it out the door now instead of 201X. New feature are coming. We just need to give it some time.
Of course you are right. This is the explanation. What I would appreciate from Nokia is some kind of a roadmap "by Q2 2010 you'll have voice dialing," and so on.

Nokia isn't prone to those type of specific statements, but if they're planning all that stuff, and if they are true to the statements Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo made to the financial community today that "we will execute," well, then they can only stand to gain by clearly mapping out what I as a consumer can expect in terms of updates.

BTW I find this thread excellent for showing the potential and what's possible with the N900 in terms of it being a mobile computer. Still, I think it could be merged with other similar threads.