Thread: MeeGo 1.2 N900 CE Beta ready 23.6.2011
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TheLongshot is offline TheLongshot
2011-04-01 , 19:12
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
My expectations are very realistic in that i doubt we will get a port of MeeGo to the N900 that will be anything like what it will be like on future devices whoever brings them out.
The N900 does lack speed and ram and looking at the way this is going it seems the whole concept will be built around better superior devices than our ours.
The version we get will be a cut down of what it will be like on future devices thats for sure because of hardware disadvantages and closed components.
Kinda a "no duh" statement. Technology always moves on and you always take advantage of whatever future hardware offers you.

But, that is all beside the point, because the main question is if MeeGo will offer the N900 user advantages over Maemo 5 that will make it worthwhile. That right now is still uncertain. As others have said from the beginning, unless we get an official release from Nokia for the N900 (unlikely), we will likely lose all of the closed-source applications Maemo currently offers. The question is, will there be enough from the MeeGo community to replace that? Time will tell. Same goes with MeeGo's performance on N900 hardware.

I do not listen to words any more because of the way Nokia promised us and pulled the plug, i am very sad and sometimes angry that i paid top money for the N900 and to be let down by a huge company like Nokia for sure got my back up.
I'm not sure what you thought you were getting promised by Nokia, but most of us at the time of release could read the tea leaves that the N900 probably would have a relatively short lifespan with Maemo 6 (at the time) on the horizon. Many of us knew that there was no guarantee that the N900 would get an OS refresh even before MeeGo and before Nokia changed CEOs and changed plans accordingly.

Yet, I still bought because I felt the phone fit my needs, and it continues to fill those needs quite well. I'm just glad that a lot of the tablet know-how of Maemo won't be lost because of corporate interests. I have hope for MeeGo, not for my current phone, but potentially a phone (or tablet) in the future, and not necessarily by Nokia.