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Originally Posted by volt View Post
If people want to buy a phone from the worlds largest phone company that is known for little other than making phones (and boots), check it out under the "all phones" page on the phone company's web pages, and read about it under the headline "The Nokia N900 Mobile Phone"... If they go to a phone shop, and the phone salesman says it's the best phone since graham bell, they pay it, charge it, put their phone sim card in it, start phoning people with it, and then finds that it's phone functionality is not up to par with the average phone...

If they come here, disappointed, and are met by angry people who keeps messing the mantra "IT'S NOT A PHONE, IT'S A TABLET GOD DAMNED IT; GRRR"...


I know perfectly well which of these two people are wrong and which one had realistic if mistaken expectations.
I disagree with your post (about it being a computer) and I advise that you consider the difference between denotation and connotation. It's similar to the argument of whether Android is Linux. Denotation wise, yes it is because it runs the Linux kernel (any device running a Linux kernel = Linux). Connotation wise, its' not because it doesn't have the properties of openness that most people would attribute to Linux.

As to why the difference between connotation and denotation is important. If it wasn't for that, then you can say a Tivo box is a Linux computer. Heck you could say alot of things are Linux computers. Or computers in general.

I think most of the time, society doesn't use language based strictly on their denotation, rather connotation is extremely important. And it's because of that reason why an iPhone is not considered a computer to most people and an Android (or Tivo box for that matter) is not considered a Linux device (regardless of what Torvalds says).

Or for that matter why desktops and laptops are not considered phones.

But as I tell everyone who asks me about the N900 or my fiancee. The N900 makes for a terrible smartphone but a great mobile computer.

To which my fiancee said what do you need more? And I said a mobile computer.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...

Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-04-23 at 20:33.