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Originally Posted by Switch_ View Post
Makes you wonder really, when the technology exists to allow the multifunctionality of phones like the N900 and the iPhone, how long will actually be before we are all using PC's with equivalent power to your desktop at home on the move, and you pick it up and put it into your pocket....
Not long. The N900 is getting into that neighborhood already.

That just points out the importance of having what is, basically, a real desktop OS loaded on your phone and to me, of the major players only Maemo/MeeGo fits that description. As they are now, Android, Symbian, WinMo, even Win Phone 7 and iPhone's OS-X - all the other OS were designed as 'smartphone' OS. Only Maemo/MeeGo really was envisioned and designed from the start for real 'pocket computers'.

Others aimed too low, thinking in terms of what was currently available and how it's used. They didn't plan far enough ahead for hardware to come and how it would be used. That's where MeeGo is already ahead of the competition - planning for the future. It will be ready for everything the hardware can throw at it in 2, 3, even 5 years.

But no doubt Apple has some OS-X tricks up its sleeve...it's unix base gives it a lot of flexibility also. We'll see if the limitations in the other OS allow them to keep pace. I have doubts.

Anyway, back on topic...nice hardware, an improvement for sure, but...
1. No physical keyboard
2. No removable battery
3. No removable storage
4. Capacitive screen
5. Selling my soul to the Emperor Jobs to be allowed into his walled kingdom
...equals total fail.
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Last edited by Crashdamage; 2010-04-21 at 10:37.
 

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