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#54
Originally Posted by Olvi View Post
I don't think anyone is complaining about new hardware. N900 is a great piece of hardware, and I'm sure the coming Meego device from Nokia is even faster. Just as the 3GS is a lot faster than 2G/3G. BUT those old iPhones still run the exactly same OS and the same apps. That's why the iPhone has so many apps(most are rubbish of course).

Jaaksi and all other Nokia people have very strictly avoided saying anything about Harmattan/Meego on N900. Now why would they do that if they would actually be working on it? I see lots of people here and elsewhere feeling very unsecure about the future(or the lack of it) for the N900, surely announcing Meego for it would increase the sales?

They say the N900 has a great future. But to be honest, all I see is a vague promise of some buxfixes(not big ones though, wasted work for a dead platform so they're in harmattan) and maybe a possibility of some future developers of porting their apps to the N900 (it's not going to run the same apps from OVI store).

The N900 clearly isn't getting any new features. No maps, no portrait. iPhone and Android-devices have set the standard and showed how to properly support a platform and make your customers feel the device actually has a future. Nokia has managed to do quite the opposite.
The issue with the iPhone is very different. They (Apple) don't allow users to multiple task. The hardware in the 3GS is faster, but the screen doesn't need anything more powerful than the 2G had pushing the same resolution. So there would be an expectation that software would run on all devices so far (sans camera).

As far as Nokia making any promises - how many did Apple make about the various releases of the iPhone OS being available on previous iPhones until it was releases - none? It's called under promise, over deliver.

Also bug fixes for Maemo 5 are not wasted on Harmattan. Qtk+ to Qt is the biggest change in Harmattan. That changes the potential look and feel but the underlying API doesn't change (san clutter). For example a fix in Modest is just as important to Harmattan as it is to Maemo 5. The UI will change from Qtk+ to Qt but the mail handling ability doesn't. If anything Nokia is probably only fixing things that are serious bugs in Maemo 5 or relevant bugs to Harmattan.

I make no assumptions on whether Harmattan will be available on the N900, but from everything I've read it's not impossible to do. The only question is how will multi touch support be used in the N9XX and will it be the only way of interacting with the UI (i.e. no +/- zoom or swirl).

Last edited by theflew; 2010-02-28 at 14:16.