Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-06 , 14:56
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#158
Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
I actually agree with that statement.

Does that make me a troll now?
If you plainly just say that N900 is completely dead to Nokia then i would say that you are probably just trolling :|

Nokia gives next to no information regarding the device, the twitter hoopla they put together ignores the platform and questions altogether, and the theoretical "ARM development" platform for MeeGo was far behind the curve at MeeGo release than it's Intel counterpart. It actually for the most part still seems to be.

I know the N900 team is working hard on that (Stskeeps included), but you have to realize that with no official support on a MeeGo adaptation to the N900 we are not going to get a perfect OS. Also, Stskeeps is the first to tell you he isn't a "Nokian". I do believe they cut him a check, but I don't think he's actually "in" Nokia. So, they (Nokia) are going to get it (MeeGo) to a "good enough" level and let it slide by, because honestly, why continue developing on something they won't make any more money off of? Now, hopefully the community will be able to go from "Good enough" to end-user reliable but that's still speculation if that will happen.
What do you mean by theoretical?
Looks like in that team itīs Nokia employees working with other people: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900
Itīs put up by Nokia.

Yes itīs not going to be official release from Nokia and not supported as officially like meego, but then again if you are saying itīs dead on behalf of Nokia you are just lying and spreading FUD.

Itīs fck vicious way of communication from Nokia to just tell little information and not really promising anything completely.

On the other hand you can speculate speculate and speculate and only thing you can say that on Nokias behalf n900 could be already dead or maybe not. It seems that itīs not dead as they are using it as reference for meego but on the other hand....etc.

The N900 and Maemo 5 are about as high on Nokia's radar as the Palm Pre is in the smartphone arena. Or at least, that is the by and large impression they are leaving.

Now, that's not saying there isn't a future to the N900 in MeeGo, like I said that's speculation at this point, however with no official support and with MeeGo's own UI frameworks talking about using things such as multi-touch being an integral part of the OS - the N900 is certainly not the target for MeeGo.

I love my N900.. there is no other phone in the Market right now that even comes close to be a better fit for me than the N900. I'm not spreading FUD.. I'm simply speaking bluntly on exactly the way appearances are right now. And these appearances are by and large Nokia's fault.
When someone says that N900 is dead to Nokia then he is saying that there is no future for it in eyes of Nokia. What else does it mean? Still facts show quite contrarty that there is something happening.

IMO Nokia has made many missteps which include advertising N900 and giving mixed and quite confusing statements about future of maemo & meego.