Thread: Is it the right time to get a Maemo device ? (N900)
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2010-01-07 , 14:40
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Originally Posted by bgrigor View Post
My generally feeling on the N900: awesome hardware, awesome OS, but some apps are missing (e.g. a good countdown timer), some apps are pretty rough (e.g. the Ovi Maps app is not Nokia's latest best version for whatever reason) and some apps are still buggy.
This is where I am hoping that the power of Open Source kicks in. Has anyone tried to run Navit on it ?

Actually, what I was going to do is mount a 12" touchscreen in my car and use the GPS receiver in the N900 as the GPS source. The touchscreen device will actually run the navigation software and that will probably be Navit.

Its missing a countdown timer ? Does Maemo support PyQt ? It would only take a few hours to write something simple like that if it does.

Of course, apps will be written, polished up and fixed over time.
As long as it doesn't get totally abandoned when Maemo 6 is released, thus my worry.

I would say the N900 is still in the "early adopter/geek" stage and the really average consumer might be advised to hold off for 6 months.
I wish Nokia would have an open development process like Redhat does with Fedora. Then we could see where they are going. If the N900 doesn't get upgraded to Maemo 6, its going to be a stale device in 8 months. I wish Nokia would make an announcement about this and I wish they would open up their development process. The N900 looks like an EXCELLENT piece of hardware. Maemo looks like it WILL BE an excellent OS. I just need to know that the N900 isn't going to be abandoned with the release of the N950/ Maemo 6.