Thread: Fate of The great N900 maemo
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-12-02 , 20:43
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#25
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
I think what we're going to see instead is either of two things:

a) Nokia officially supports N900 with Maemo 6 or...
b) The community makes it's own version of Maemo 6 that does work on the N900, much like it has previously done with the "hacker edition" versions of OS2007 and OS2008 for the 770.

Honestly, I don't think N900 owners will have much to worry about. I'm sure they will be able to use Maemo 6 one way or another.
a) Nokia never supported the N810 with Maemo 5
b) The community has not yet made it's own version of Maemo 5 that works on the N810.

The excuse Nokia offered as to why Maemo 5 could not be made backward compatible with the N810 is that OMAP 3 was too different from OMAP 2. In late 2010, they had better be running OMAP 4 if they are going to compete.

I would guess that the N900 and Maemo 5 will get an update around the end of 2009 and one about six months later. After that, it will be a relatively stable legacy product like Maemo 4.

It's not in Nokia's interest to waste time and money (not to mention increase the code base size and complexity) to build in backward compatibility. They don't sell the OS, they sell the hardware. New feature, new phone, new revenue.