Thread: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late
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2010-05-20 , 18:14
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#250
Originally Posted by Tomaszd View Post
Nobody ever promised anything and suddenly people feel untitled to a free upgrade to a completely new, partially proprietary system for a completely new device. Looking back at history, Nokia has *never* backported a new system to an older device, *never*. Be happy with hardware support in the basic MeeGo image with proprietary hardware drivers included, because that's already a lot, by Nokia standards.
Never? I'm running Diablo OS2008 on my N800 which came from the factory with Chinook OS2007 on it. After the N810 was released, Diablo became available for the N800's as an upgrade. Perhaps not really a backport, but an older device got an upgrade to the new OS that came with the new (similar hardware) device.

Perhaps many around here, felt the same thing would happen with Maemo 5/6 and the N900/???. The idea that for good reason Nokia broke the upgrade path from Maemo 4 to Maemo 5, would enable an upgrade path to Maemo 6 from 5. It seemed as though the hardware on the next device would be similar, so there shouldn't be any technical reason to prevent upgrading (much like the N8x0 series).

Except that now the N900 is the red-headed step child that nobody at Nokia wants anything to do with. Maemo is no longer the future, MeeGo is.
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