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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-10-16 , 00:15
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
What proof is there that Nokia will make the dual boot available to anybody other than developers?
Because they can't selectively lock people out? Seriously, they'll make a handful of changes in the official kernel that 90% of people completely don't notice but will support and make life for those who wish to work with MeeGo as it is now much easier.

I think that's the concern (I'm seriously guessing here)... so far, each MeeGo build has been a developer build, it's just now starting to make phone calls - which I find utterly useless for a main phone, but not useless for a secondary phone that's used more as an internet tablet.
That's because these builds are developer builds. Hell there's no GUI to configure data connections and no power management in place yet. They're slated for the 1.2 release. And even then, it's still a developer build. Unless you're looking to mess around with MeeGo Handset, there's no real reason to boot it.

But you can, if you choose. The "concern" you cite is at best unfounded.

I'm a person that actually uses a phone. My N900 is packaged up until I go overseas; and even then I'm starting to have second thoughts about it as a primary phone whilst overseas since it'll be in the same state - in regards to MeeGo - but it's totally fine as it stands today with Maemo 5 and PR1.2.
So stick with Maemo5 and PR1.2. People have explicitly stated that the average user should not use MeeGo except maybe to see where things are going, at least until 1.2. The brave can always try weeklies (which is what this is for) and see things progress.

However, I must admit that I've not seen any definitive statements from Nokia other than they will not make dual boot available to customers - it's in that ever-growing thread about PR1.3 - but it didn't exclude developers... nor tinkerers nor this community.
Err, they're not going to go and make some special, super secret release only for a select, small audience.

I fear that the usability might render it useless as a phone while in MeeGo though until all of those features, phone and other communicative stacks are in place.
Right, but what are you getting on about? It's not being pushed as a usable environment now.

If I've missed some announcement, feel free to point it out to me. Thanks in advance.
What are you so worried about? Maybe I missed the point of this thread, certainly the title is confusing...
 

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