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My rescue plan for meego
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nocain
2011-02-13 , 21:02
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Can't say, I ditched smartphones almost 2 years ago, they don't do enough to warrant the $25 per month premium you pay for data to have them. I need a phone to make and recieve calls, send and receive txt, take a quick pic, be able to store and play back music, and have a calculator. I get all that in a dumb phone. Additional helpful features would be true gps( not bs agps that does me no good on a hike ), a compas, and a good calendar app...
If I am going to have to fork over $20+ to use a phone it had better be able to do all the above AND double as a low end computer complete with periperial device support and video out. Something I make on my computer I should be able to adapt in hours to work on my phone.
Almost no phone meets my requirements N900 is the closest, only downside to it was not powerful enough hardware. Meego was a dead ringer for my needs if in a phone factor. Android does not meet this yet, symbian does not, iOS does not, WP7 deff does not... WebOS or QNX it is too early to tell.
I don't want to carry more then 1 device on my persons, so if the nokia meego device does not have phone functionality then it is useless, and if it does then I have to question if I want to buy a device from a company that has no long term strategic plan for the meego platform as I want updates and bug fixes etc from my device manufacturer as well as a viable upgrade path.
Now I admit that I am a minority user for my needs, my argument is that meego 1.2 will be just as capable and good and as easy to use as any other smartphone OS, WP7 is no more refined then meego, has less functionality then meego 1.1, has a less mature dev tools and API then meego, has less active developer community then QT, less apps in it's market then in ovi store, and has a market share of >5%.
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