Thread: Maemo 6 and/or MeeGo on N900: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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TheLongshot is offline TheLongshot
2010-02-21 , 16:34
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Originally Posted by felbutss View Post
lol the N900 is the ONLY Maemo 5 device. THE ONLY ONE EVER.
Was there anything in Nokia's past history of in talk about the future that it would be otherwise? The nice thing about the MeeGo deal is that it might actually break that pattern. It might not benefit N900 users directly, but it will help indirectly at the very least.

i had a feeling from the start the n900 will not get maemo 6 but that has changed. now maemo 6 has become MeeGo with intels merger and will be used for many devices not just phones. this means the maemo 5 is over and done.
Again, nothing has really changed, other than the future of the next generation OS is going to be brighter. Personally, that's good news overall. While it falls short of saying "M6 will be on the N900" (which you weren't expecting anyways), you do get that both OSs will have the new QT libraries on it, which means there can be a lot of cross-development at the minimum.

that is a big change from just an OS upgrade. we are beta testers once again for a buggy device all round. the slider is scratching my device, i have a bright spot, when i tap the screen it creaks and god forbid my usb port comes out. software wise dont get me started, i cant belive exchange support still doesnt work for me. over it. reminds me of when i got my N95. this is going to come out wrong but nokia owe us for all these reasons. the n900 was supposed to be a saviour but its not looking that way. its just another beta test for the next device. u watch and tell me i was wrong when everything goes to sh*t. this isnt about QT, QT is great but not enough to fix maemo 5.
I don't know what any of this has to do with hardware issues. Personally, I have none.

I think the issue has become nokia is aware most of the n900 community has been fighting over this and might just need to release a statement for us with a definitive answer. This fear of missing out is human nature, no one wants to be on the sidelines. To much beating around the bush from nokia.
Assuming that Nokia has a definitive answer to give at this point. M6/Meego might not be locked down as far as features goes. This agreement might reinforce that view with the integration and compatibility with Moblin.

This isn't unique to Nokia. There are certain Android phones (Cliq, G1) where there were questions if and when updates to their OSs would happen. At the very least, we know one update will happen and there will at least be another.

One last thing. when nokia were developing Maemo5 and the N900, the plans for a merger were most likely happening during the development stage of the device. So it is very unlucky that we got maemo5 and no one else will. Another situation I would like is if nokia just abandon Maemo5 and give the MeeGo OS to the N900. maybe even the N810, N800 and N770 after all its a multiple device OS platform.
I think really it is a question of hardware, since I think the reasoning Nokia didn't make versions for the N810 and N800 was because they didn't have the juice to run the OS. Maybe that's one of the things the OP ran into with Mer. (I haven't read up onto the whys about how they were being too aggressive.)

I'm not going to stress over the waiting to see if Nokia is going to give us Meego or not for the device. Personally, I enjoy using it. In the meantime, I hope that between the user community and Nokia that eventually all the flaws will be addressed in one way or another.