Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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me2000 is offline me2000
2010-10-24 , 19:28
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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.
Right. N900 not supported either.

Note to Nokia: quit stringing people along with moving deadlines, vague product definitions and propagating false hopes. You aren't fooling anyone. You are only hurting yourself.

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.
I'm sure it is. Only HTC doesn't say its a platform when a software deadline rolls around. They ship software that works on their phone.

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
In that case, I'll be throwing my N900 in the garbage and buying an Android phone like all the rest of the market has. Silly me for thinking something of quality was going to come from this Nokia + Intel effort.

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.
Silly me, but I thought that is the sort of thing the N900 hardware adaption team, with Nokia's blessing, would broach.

You know what is really funny here is Nokia's attitude toward the N900 user base. Instead of looking at it as a huge, free testing force, they want to wash their hands of it. Have you noticed how Redhat uses Fedora ? That should be your model, not washing your hands of it. Guess what the quality of Meego 1.6 on your next device is going to be if you don't get it properly tested ????

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.
I guess the handset "platform" doesn't need that "feature". :rollseyes:

This whole situation stinks and as long as things continue as they are, I don't see any change happening for the foreseeable future.