Thread: Who's still around and interested in N800/N810?
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2010-04-29 , 08:54
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Originally Posted by maacruz View Post
Truth is, it isn't old at all (two years old is not old), but it is not owned by enough people to make a strong community (and unfortunately many of the most active community members have been lured away by n900). And being a semi closed device doesn't help either.
Old enough, actually. I clearly remember buying my N800 at a CompUSA nearby right in January of 2007. Plenty of time for them to have opened up this damned thing properly to the community.

As for the N900... In that time, we N800's went from OS2006 (pre-OS2007) to OS2007... to OS2008... then nothing for any truly meaningful upgrades. SSU's are nothing more than patches, near as I can tell.. and none of it upgraded the kernel to keep up with the mainline kernel. So... hooray. OS2008... aaaand we're now in 2010 with a whole NEW device to get the new updates while we relegate to being stuck in 2008 with a semi-closed device.

Nice.