Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-04 , 15:08
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Originally Posted by shanrizvi View Post
I've read a lot of posts, both positive and negative, on this issue and I am still confused. I hope someone offers a decent well-explained answer to my post.

What exactly IS the future of my N900? What would you say to people who say Maemo has no future because all the resources are going to Meego. Why would Nokia support Maemo? Even if there is support, isn't it going to be extremely limited?

I understand that there will probably be a community-supported version of Meego for the N900 but what exactly does that mean? People talk about having NITDroid with multiboot on the N900 but isn't that just a fancy geek experiment (no offense to those working on it)? I don't see a fully functional version of the Android on N900 EVER. Nothing that can actually add to the usability of the phone. Does this really count as a point in favor of the N900?

Would a community-supported version of Meego be fully functional? Would it improve the N900 or would it be just the mere ability to run Meego on N900, regardless of whether the experience is better than Maemo 5 on N900 or not?

I think concerns regarding the N900's future are extremely valid and I wouldn't consider it trolling. Its not mere whining. I haven't seen any decent answers to those concerns yet. Lets just look at how things are.

Currently, I don't even know of a way to comfortably watch YouTube videos on the N900. Most websites have upgraded to Flash 10.1, which isn't supported by the N900 so all the hoopoolala about N900 having Flash support is meaningless now. IT was one of the reasons I bought this phone. ZouTube doesn't work anymore either. Digi@scene is just plain weird and slow.

The E-mail application is horrible. Push-email is impossible without Nokia Messaging.

There are still few apps in the repositories compared to N900's competitors. In the beginning, people said N900 doesn't need apps because you can do it all from the browser but can you really?

There was a lot of hype about N900's front camera and video chat capabilities but this is another half-baked feature to say the least. It is plain painful. I haven't had one successful video chat yet. Can't see the other person's video on Skype. I hate to compare but if you compare it to the front camera usage on iPhone 4, all you can do is envy. The experience is so smooth. You can swiftly shift between cameras. You can easily see the person and the person can see you without any issues!

There are many other things that I could think of right now but I hope someone answers the questions I've asked here.
Don't really have time to break down the post into answerable elements so I'll just do a list.

1) dj_steve (one of the guys working on NitDroid) has constantly surprised me with progress on NITDroid. At this point I think the team is more likely to get a fully working version of Android before there's a fully working version of Meego on the N900. I'm not quite sure how he's doing it, I know the Milestone and Droid have similar hardware but still..

2) Community version of Meego probably wouldn't be as smooth as Maemo. It'd be barely functional, but not sure how good it would be compared to just running Maemo, or an actual device that came with Meego.

3) Maemo is pretty much dead as an OS (well rather it was cannibalized by Meego). The only thing I would expect from Nokia at this point is PR 1.3 (bringing QT Mobility, and some bugfixes). As for future applications, the only hope is QT compatibility across Maemo and Meego.

4) Most Flash 10.1 sites don't need Flash 10. You can try it by using Flash Faker (fakes the version of the Flash running on the N900). But if a website is actually using features in Flash 10 of course they won't work on the N900 then.

5) I agree the e-mail client is TERRIBLE.

6) The whole app versus browser thing really depends on which app your talking about. For example, if the app just shows you a site's RSS feed (but in a slightly prettier form) then there really doesn't need to be an app for it. But something that requires something to be locally stored on the device (like games) need to be an app.

A great example would be the mobile youtube site, even Google stopped working on the Youtube app on the iPhone because they realized it was pointless to have X number of apps when the point of it was to stream videos. Now say if you want to download and watch locally stored Youtube videos that might need to be an app.

7) I've only had Skype video chat problems when the other person's Skype client wasn't updated. But I've never had any problems with Video Google Talk or Skype on WiFi or 3G otherwise. A little bit laggy on 3G though. But the iPhone's ability to switch to the rear camera is nice (I wish the N900 had it). Would be useful when I wanted to show my fiancee the new turtle I got for her rather than trying to turn the n900 around and position it.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 

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