Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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2010-10-24 , 19:18
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Originally Posted by me2000 View Post
Here is another thing that pi$$es me off... every time we get close to a promised release date, the target changes. Meego != Nokia Meego. Release != something usable by an end user, ie now its a "platform", whatever that means.

Question: When are we going to see a schedule for a piece of software that I can use on my N900 without resorting to xterm or applying patches or dual booting, to make and receive calls without my phone crashing ?
No, it was pretty clear from the start. MeeGo for N900 won't be supported by Nokia (pretty clearly stated, ie, no Nokia Care calls). Work on a MeeGo(.com) hardware adaptation for N900 was started.

I'll give you that there has been a lot of personality split between if MeeGo is end user (netbook) or a platform. In practice however, isn't Android a platform and what you actually use, is HTC Android (with google apps, which isn't part of Android)? Similar model with MeeGo.

Question: When are we going to see a schedule for a piece of software that I can use on my N900 without resorting to xterm or applying patches or dual booting, to make and receive calls without my phone crashing ?
It's called Maemo

Seriously though: Only way to not resort to 'dual booting' is by it being preinstalled on your phone or you getting in touch with flasher somehow.

I can make and receive calls on MeeGo/N900. That it comes out the speakers instead of ear piece is because the audio policy daemon simply isn't a 1.1 feature. So it goes.
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