Thread: Fate of The great N900 maemo
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-12-02 , 21:48
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
a) It's not that OMAP3 is too different... it's that the N810 just simply can't handle the computational requirements of Maemo 5.
b) It's called Mer.
a) and that will be the excuse for Maemo 6
b) even the people who are working on it don't claim Mer is ready

I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't think I will be. I think the N900 will end up with a more stable OS but it will be Maemo 5. It will end up with a more expansive suite of possible applications but their development will taper off as well.

A year and a half from now (because I don't trust Nokia release dates anymore) there will be an N1000 running Maemo 6. If you want to run Maemo 6 you'll need to buy it.


P.S.

a) We expect an API break between Maemo 4 and Maemo 5, mainly due to the OMAP3 support, the hardware-based graphics acceleration and the changes in the Desktop UI and the Realtime Communication framework.
http://maemo.org/news/announcements/...rm_developers/

b) Mer is a work-in-progress and is not yet day-to-day usable. We are getting there, but don't expect too much of it.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Releases/0.16
Last edited by DaveP1; 2009-12-02 at 21:56. Reason: added P.S. to reflect additional information