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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Could you people please explain to me why the N8x0 or the N900 is not a decent Linux handheld?
Definition of decent is highly dependant on a person. I think that they are the only decent linux handhelds, but they don't fill the other requirements I personally have.

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I would love to hear a rational reason for the lack of communication from Nokia pertaining the Maemo/MeeGo platform. I'm sure one exists; I just cannot figure out how it's beneficial or even a halfway good thing.
I have a feeling that it's a combination of "if we communicate, our competitors will know our next move" and "we don't want to publish any information before it's rock solid". As I have it Meego is still so new a concept, that maybe they don't know the answers we seek even themselves.

Let's say there was a device coming between N810 and N900 and another device along N900, but they decided to axe them at some point. If they would have been open and told about them in advance, the decision to cancel a device would have been big news, even if it's standard business with every major player, but they just don't talk about it.

Any speculative coverage in this part of the game... is good coverage in my eyes.
Well the amount of speculative coverage would probably skyrocket if they communicated openly. Maybe it's a good thing, or maybe the blogosphere would even learn to back off eventually, but at first I'm thinking PR nightmare.

I admit it's a tricky topic and there's no simple way to go about it.