Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-07-30 , 23:24
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#220
Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Do you have any idea when we can expect maemo 6 to be released to the public?
The official word is 2010H2, current hints (warning, speculation ahead ) show a likely announcement in September-October with actual devices in November-December.

Is it the same release as expected in October or will that be just the reference UI?
AFAIK the MeeGo and the Harmattan release schedules are separate (well, except for the Qt components they have to share to be compatible). So what you will get in October in MeeGo as reference UX is still expected to be largely unrelated to what Harmattan will have (by October Harmattan should be long frozen and final productization stages). This doesn't mean it will look worse than the MeeGo 1.1 ref UX - in fact, as the UX is seen as a differentiation source, it will likely never be quite polished in the reference UX implementation, Nokia will always add secret sauce extras on top of it for shipment in actual devices (think Sense or MotoBlur over stock Android).

If this is truly the case that's fine - Maemo 6 is released as a "version" of meego then "real" meego is released on new device in 2011.

I just wish Nokia would formally announce something like this!
E.g. by a Director or Product Manager.
Yes, that's the worst part - the strategy actually makes sense, but a lot of the rationale of why things are the way they are lost because of comms done the way they are done.
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