Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-06 , 20:26
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Ok, but building != functionality. I still cannot use Wifi easily .
Don't get me started on connman. Once the caffeine has kicked in, my plan is to debug it and exorcise the damn thing until it does our bidding. Wasted so long time on it's bugs.

That is how I see MeeGo for the N900. The problem? That's not real future for users.
For users.. well, ask Nokia. MeeGo can only give what's contributed. But what would you really want on N900?

If you're asking me (I use my N900 daily) as a user, here's what I dream of:

MeeGo on N900 with a proper hardware adaptation (this -always- comes first)

Nokia differentiation packaged on top of it, differentiation that is genuinely useful, accessible if I plug in a IMEI and accept this is not a product and can't call about it, etc. I mean. Nokia has no problem distributing Nokia binaries to Nokia devices.. this hasn't changed.

And community helping to QA these kind of mixes and maintain .ks'es built with these things.

Thus, I think Nokia will get to the point that even 2 man hours a month to make sure the image is built for the N900 isn't worth it.
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(or even just openly distributable) BME/3D/whatever binary blob to ensure that no matter where Nokia goes: As long as MeeGo is running we can port the latest and greatest to the N900 (within hardware limitations).
First part: Nokia's still answering questions on phone for OS2008 devices aren't they? I wouldn't underestimate what Nokia will still do. I mean, I'm going to be repackaging BME for N8x0 in RPM ..

To the second part, yes, I agree, that simple kind of commitment would be nice.
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