Thread: And where is the people from Nokia who worked on Maemo and Meego?
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zimon is offline zimon
2011-02-19 , 08:35
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Originally Posted by nwerneck View Post
I haven't heard of that limitation before, is this true? And not planned for the upcoming update that will already bring cut-paste and other stuff?...

If WP7 will not run on dual-core systems at first, that I can really see it substituting Symbian while MeeGo is reserved for more powerful/future devices...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02...s_are_missing/
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft took the Window CE kernel and built a tightly controlled and carefully managed environment around it. Microsoft also rigidly specifies what kind of devices OEMs can build. It must have three buttons, not four. WP7 currently supports just one CPU and one screen size. And WP7 is very much a greenfield site: a large number of features supported by the competition are also missing. The list is pretty daunting.
The so called "Mango" update, WP7 -> WP7.5 (?) probably won't have multi-core support either because also multitasking is restricted in that upgrade version. Only like music player or Microsoft selected applications will run in the background, other "normal" applications will be stopped when in the background.

As with Symbian, multi-core support first comes to kernel and later the user space processes. So WP7.5 may have multi-core support in kernel already, but I doubt not in user processes still.

WP8 is planned in the first half of 2012. Rather long time for Nokia to wait to get a "flag ship" device out. We all know IT-projects also are delayed and postponed, so wouldn't be surprised if WP8 comes end of the 2012. MS Vista was delayed several years. And in Linux, back of the days, having all OS code thread-safe took years.

So thinking all that, I do not understand Elop's point at all. Yes, it may still be long way to Meego phone GUI, but WP-plaform is far from ready and surely takes more than 12 months. If Nokia will bring low end smart phone as its first WP-phone, it will fail most likely. And nothing but dual-core >1GHz, 1GB RAM and (well just see Samsung Galaxy S2 what has to be there) will make a "flag ship" device now 2011.

The so called "plan B" was much more wiser, because in that Microsoft has responsibility to get their **** together. Nokia will provide the hardware and then WP-phones are tested in North-America if they work or not. Nokia should just say what it needs and Microsoft should provide if they want their WP-platform to survive.

But Nokia should concentrate fully in its own software development to its own plaform, Meego UX. If Microsoft fails, the time has not been wasted. But as long as Elop is CEO, I doubt he will allow any high end hardware to end up in Meego phone, because it would be a thread to his next MS-CEO plans. Also having Dalvik VM in the first Nokia Meego-phone would be a killer solution and many Android-developers would transfer to Meego, but once again Elop prolly won't allow it to happen because it would be a thread to his MS-ecosystem.
Last edited by zimon; 2011-02-19 at 08:42.