Thread: Maemo 6 and/or MeeGo on N900: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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2010-02-21 , 06:51
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Originally Posted by TheLongshot View Post
what has changed now to make you want to jump ship?
When I bought my N900, I assumed it would at least be supported by Maemo 6, if not 7. It was probably already suspected by some that Nokia wouldn't take it beyond Fremantle, but I was unaware.

Originally Posted by TheLongshot View Post
I bought in because it was exactly the phone I was looking for: more computer than phone. And I've been quite happy with it, even with its flaws. Even if Nokia ended support for it tomorrow, I'd be fine with it. I know some of you out there with 770s, 800s and 810s aren't treating those like bricks. They still have use for those who own them.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that being unable to run the latest OS renders my device useless, and I've been very happy with my N900 so far. But I've been using Maemo since the 770, and I'm tired of Nokia's habit of dropping support for still-young hardware which would be perfectly capable of running the latest software. I'd be feeling the same way about the lack of N900 support in Harmattan even if there was no MeeGo merger. I'm holding onto my N900 for now, and I may well get a MeeGo phone in a couple years -- it just won't be a Nokia. Six months of software support for a €650 device is unacceptable to me.
Last edited by anonym; 2010-02-21 at 06:56.