Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-06 , 16:00
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Though I personally think that they should put a QT version of Ovi Maps in vanilla Meego. Considering their biggest competitor is Android and nearly every Android device comes with Google Maps. If Nokia wants to combat Android they need other manufacturers to produce Meego devices. By providing Ovi Maps with vanilla Meego any manufacturer could then take that and sell their smartphone with GPS included. Especially if they want to get into the services and advertisement business like Google does and what Apple is getting more into.
Ovi Maps can't go in vanilla MeeGo (just as Google Maps can't go into plain Android, but it's a long story...). The point is that you can even open-source the code of the application and give it everybody, the actual product is the data, which is very heavily controlled, with Navteq/Teleatlas on the kill-switch. And data is super-expensive to obtain and keep up-to-date. Don't let the fact that you as a customer don't pay extra, it's just being financed by other means. Unless you're talking about Ovi Maps using openstreetmap as a back-end, but would you really trust that as reliable source for navigation ?

Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
The N900 is definitely the most desktop like device, if that's your definition of computing... but since Android now has Flash built-in to the browser and they also have java support (IIRC) - I think they have a slight edge on that now.
Just to correct a small misconception. Flash is technically not built-in to the browser. FroYo provides some extra hooks for it, but actual device-specific porting and certification is required, plus you need adequate distribution licenses from Adobe. The bottom line - Flash is not part of FroYo's browser but is supported by it. Why this nitpick ? Because it affects the support cycle - it's not Google's job to maintain Flash, so it will be interesting to see the future of Flash after FroYo.
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