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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2010-08-06 , 08:07
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#183
Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Hrm.. IMHO: The mentality of only 1, maybe 2 year support for a phone just doesn't quite cut it anymore. The iPhones were updated for more than 2 years. An example, according to wiki, the iPhone 3G was released June of 2008, and received the 4.0.1 update July 1, 2010.
Maybe, maybe not. My N97 mini is considered to be something like obsolete piece of ****, yet it received last firmware update short while ago. It is actually quite good with it now. On the Apple side of story, their update of iOS 4 to older devices wasn't actually that smooth. IMO it's better to stick with older version on devices that doesn't pack the punch to actually run the newer one. This is why many of many iPhone owners have actually downgraded their OS's. Same goes with Android (Motorola Droid had performance issues with updated version) and Windows Mobile (colleague used to have HTC Windows-device, updated with newer version it had terrible performance).

That kind of business-model is just.. unappealing now-a-days. So making a new phone with an already EOL product hoping that you'll get at most 1 year of support of it is.. well.. kinda setting the standards a little low isn't it?
Support for older device doesn't really stop right there when newer device or OS is out, nor does it mean that older product is EOL. If OS is stable and supports application frameworks used in newer devices, I don't really see that big problem.

And, as far as "MeeGo to be available on our N900's".. keep in mind that it is said everywhere you see that it will be a developer edition only. Will it be end-user "usable?"... eh.. maybe.. but no guarantees. I'm expecting theres definitely going to be real quirks with it, it's just quirks weird people like me will enjoy using it with. Your average smart phone buyer OTOH isn't going to be interested in running a non-optimized OS on their phone..
I'm perfectly aware of that. I never considered N900 to be an average Joe's device anyway. Community supported version of MeeGo is likely to be out, but I'm not sure if I really want it. There's not enough known about it at the moment to make decision on that yet. Remains to be seen. At the moment updated and optimized version of Ovi Maps is actually only thing I really miss (OK, better battery life would also be appreciated...) and if it will be available for Maemo 5, I won't be that sad if MeeGo for N900 doesn't happen in usable manner. But that's just me...