Thread: PR 1.3 LITTLE changes with HUGE DISAPPOINT!!!
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2010-10-28 , 10:04
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
What you and many others fail to see is that the N900 is not "the next model" in a series of high-end Nokia phones. It is the very first model in a series of non-phone devices that has some minimal phone functionality.
N900 is :
* as the name suggests, an N-series device
* as the number suggests, the next evolution is the tablet line, a high end device line.

Am I to assume that an N-series phone (advertised as such) would be a huge regression from 4-5 YO N-series device?

Yes it's experimental and I can live with it having ringing bugs in Oct 2009. I feel cheated when it has ringing issue in Oct 2010. Maybe if it were some odd OS, requiring monolithic updates, like proprietary firmware. But an open system, with live repos and file-level update capability? There is no technical limitation, no cost overhead. It's simply a case of screw'em.

[QUOTE=benny1967;854768]Comparing S60 to Maemo 5 would seem like - well, yes, regressions, as you said. Lots and lots of features missing.[QUOTE]

You forget, I am comparing 2003 Symbian to 2010 Maemo. Aditionally, they didn't start from scratch. Debian for ARM probably already runs on N900, most manufacturers provide open drivers.

It just feels like very little is accomplished. 100 bugs, some cosmetic, some integration from upstream in 3 months.

It feels like it's a device supported by a student.

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
But that's just not what it is. What you do is like comparing the very first camera-phones to a high-end professional camera of those days. Yes, there were "regressions" then compared to a real camera, but that's not what you'd call it... it was the beginning of a new functionality. That how I see telephony on Maemo devices.
It's like comparing an old 1.3 MPx camera to a new line of 12 MPx and finding out exposure is broken.

Look, it's not like it's a hidden feature. The phone stuttered audio in calls. It stuttered audio on browse. Became unusable with widgets.

Surely they knew that, released it anyway, and then ignored complaints for a year.

And frankly, not allowing multi-device support for your next generation, ultra versatile MeeGo OS is like Microsoft requiring i7 cores for W7.

Besides, considering that they lost many chains like PC Suite compatibility, proprietary backup, backwards compatibility.

They used massive portions of code from other projects. They have upstream fixes. They have user submitten patches yet they leave me hanging for months.

Yes I feel that's inexcusable.

@mhamza: Here's my reply to you conforming with my previous suggestion:
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