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gerbick	2010-09-22 , 05:07
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint

So does MeeGo.. with respect to intel based netbooks. MeeGo also has support for the N900 out-of-box and the Intel Moorestown.

Ah, but I'm talking about the N900 only. I know that Moblin... I mean MeeGo for Intel supports a broad range of devices. I don't think that Maemo, I mean MeeGo for handsets does. If I'm wrong, please feel free to correct it.

They are right now.. every week.. with every weekly build of MeeGo. At least until MeeGo is able to distribute them directly.

But until those weekly builds are fully making and receiving phone calls, your N900 will be rendered into a UI/UX showcase that looks cool but cannot do much more than show it's a proof of concept for a soon to be released OS.

While I can do that with my N900 since that's not my full-time phone whilst I'm in the US, I cannot do that while I'm on travel when it switches to my main phone.

Simply stated, no phone calls can be either received or made, it's 100% useless to me.

This isn't so much the N900 not being a computer as it is the community hasn't successfully put something together yet.

But this community insists on calling it a computer when... I fear that it is not. It's computer-like, but not a full-blown computer. I mean, I remember when my father used to call my HP 48GX a "computer" and I kept correcting him with saying "No. It's a calculator" and he'd go "What's the difference?" - big difference to me.

Maybe because those that are capable actually find their phones quite useful as is. The small closed parts we want to change we change directly (hildon-desktop modifications, FMTXd, etc.)

Based on the responses in this forum, I'm seriously doubting that folks are using the N900 as a phone at all for the most part.

So really one could argue there is less "maemo" builds for the N900 as there are Android builds for Droid phones because.. well.. we don't need them

Or... there are less Maemo builds because the builds have yet to be packaged and made available to the public. There are a ton of fixes that have yet to be released yet. Same is true for Diablo; but the Community SSU is changing that. The lack of a SSU for Fremantle is somewhat frustrating and should be fixed.

Phone calls will be a requirement.

STSKeeps has stated that they've worked that out somewhat, so I'm hopeful there.

Flash however is entirely out of the question for MeeGo. Ubuntu does not offer flash, you have to install it.

But it is installable... that's a key difference.

So in this case, you are squarely facing Adobe on whether you'll get it or not.

Actually, there's more than a few things that I want... but to have it now, lose it on an upgrade... I don't call that an upgrade. That's a huge compromise. Upgrades are supposed to add to the experience, not take away.

If they make an ARM port for MeeGo - you'll see it. If not .. maybe someone will get the Android one to work - but none of this can be blamed on the N900, or MeeGo.

I'm not blaming MeeGo for that. I lived through the Hacker Editions that didn't have Flash... and to be honest, I didn't like it one bit and absolutely refuse to do that again.

Your moob love is noted...

and feared.

Last edited by gerbick; 2010-09-22 at 05:14.

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