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Originally Posted by MoJo View Post
I think we can all agree the N8 would be much better off running Maemo/ MeeGo or whatever pet project Nokia concocts next why Symbian? Leave that crappy OS for crappy phones even if it is window dressed. I wouldn't mind having Symbian on the E-series business line phones, Symbian is suited for that but please not the N, what a crappy OS.
I don’t agree and I’ll explain say why. MeeGo is in the phase of not even having an UI. Not exactly good for a camera (though an ASCII art camphone would certainly have a supergeek appeal). Maemo ? What Maemo ? Harmattan is AT LEAST still a good 6 months away. Fremantle ? When its camera software regularly gets criticized for being too rudimentary, and even the N900 is viewed as being shipped with something that people here seem to mention only in the context of when it will get replaced or upgraded ? So no, prior to the very end of 2010, there is no sense in any Nokia phone to sport Maemo/MeeGo, with the teeenzy exception of maybe making things like a N900-mini or a N900-MID. Symbian actually has a solid case here.

PS. I still believe it has an ARM11+dedicated video chip. It claims 7.5 hours of HD playback with a higher clocked CPU on a smaller battery than the N900. That doesn’t sound like an OMAP3.
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