Thread: Maemo device vs Android device/Apple iPhone: Upgradable Operating Systems
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lanwellon is offline lanwellon
2010-02-13 , 04:11
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Originally Posted by Dontales View Post
Every iPhone screen is the same etc., but not every Android screen and etc., which makes difficult to run or develop software for different android version and devices...

Maemo5 and N810, this is the problem of hardware of the device. Compare the hardware of the N810 and N900 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne..._Tablet_models ), there is a significant difference...an older CPU-architecture with less power and the half size of RAM...

Also look at this --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo_%...elease_history
Thank you for your thread.

Just like you said, iPhone screen is the same because there is only one vendor : Apple Inc.

And Android had several hardware vendors, such as HTC, Asus, Lenovo, Motorola etc. and Google want it to be like this.
But let's take a look at one Anroid phone, we take HTC G3 (Hero)
for instance, it can also support cross-version OS upgrade.
From 1.5 to 2.1. But Nokia device cannot do that.


I know it is the hardware spec difference that cause the OS upgrade impossible on N810.
And that is exactly what I want to say, I suggest NOKIA do not make big hardware changes any more.

You can upgrade the CPU, or RAM size, screen size(not resolution), to make the device runs more quickly.

But should not interfere the OS upgrade.

Anyone has the same idea ?