Thread: N900 NOT upgradeable to MeeGo
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Matan is offline Matan
2010-03-15 , 23:31
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#142
Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
But from their point of view, what's stupid about it? It will cost them money to make Meego work on the N900. It will not sell any new units. And I strongly suspect that this community will not want to pay for the upgrade.
It will sell more units - see people on this forum selling their devices for this reason. A sold used device might mean a lost new device sell.

It will also sell other devices. See the people declaring on this forum - "this is the last Nokia I buy", with this as a reason.

I know that when I am asked to advise people on buying a new high end phone, I suggest N1 rather than N900, mainly due to bad phone functionality and no hope of improvement.

For that matter, what pressure? "Dear Nokia, if you don't put Meego on the N900 I won't buy a new Nokia phone." But if they do put Meego on the N900 you won't buy a new Nokia phone either!
See above.

But besides that, if you're happy with the N900, why would you want to change to a new, unproven, OS mashup?
What makes you think I am happy with the N900? The hardware is reasonable, given the constraints (a larger screen and no cell connectivity would have been much better). But the software is just miserable. The phone functionality fails to achieve feature parity with the 20 Euro Nokia 1209. About the GPS software enough has been said. It is supposed to be open, but any change you try to make, you find an annoying Nokia binary in your way (yes, MCE, I am talking about you). In a lot of places, there is obvious functionality for the keyboard, yet the keys do nothing, as if there was a decision to make the keyboard useless.

A few of those will be fixed in Harmattan, a few will be fixed in a system with less proprietary components, but It appears as if none of those will come to the N900.
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"N900 community support for the MeeGo-Harmattan" Is the new "Mer is Fremantle for N810".

No more Nokia devices for me.