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Posts: 108 | Thanked: 120 times | Joined on Dec 2009
#18
People aren't mostly knocking the phone, just the company and it's misguided steps and or directions. I think Nokia made a poor decision in not supporting N900 for MeeGo, I think MeeGo is a repeat of Maemo ... why bother again doing versions 1.0 ... when you have a solid platform already in a 5th iteration granted the naming has changed over the years. Where is Ovi turn by turn maps, remember the bold statement of all Nokia A-GPS phones becoming Ovi maps turn by turn capable ... the disclaimer should say except Maemo. A company who loves to preach open source, but is tight lipped on information especially non-industry sensitive issues ... like flash 10.1 for N900? Also the Ovi Store blows chunks, for one it recently went live after how many months of the N900 being available, and the website based store is ******ed, add it or integrate it into the app manager or make it a separate app ... what gives with the ******ed website. Even I know that in a mobile setting you need to encapsulate/ consolidate the more repetitive tasks and remove as many barriers ... a website and loading of pages is a lot of barriers, please someone teach these people. I especially hate it when an engineering solution was turned down for marketing sake. I'm sure the Nokia engineers and designers feel the same way I do, but some marketing or accounting jerk said we could make more money this way instead of a customized app for each phone. Well you know what on the high end smartphones we expect you to do it smart not go full ******.

So again it never has been about the phone, crazy good phone. Atleast for me I am more pissed at the company. This phone quite literally has a desktop grade OS, which makes it so unique. I see the trend where all this mobile devices are heading towards computer grade usability. Nokia does things half assed, but Apple does it a decade later and will be hailed as changing the industry ... only difference Apple will put it's balls behind the product no matter how daring or risky the market segment is. So to Nokia leadership, grow a pair and be market leaders again.