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2011-10-26 , 10:55
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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
I remember the first time I heard about Harmattan and the N900 successor... I remember the good times planning and imagining what it would be... Now that thread has reached over 10 000 posts and I still don't have the N9 in my hands! :@

I'm done waiting around for rumours, lol, after I get bored with the N9, im going Android until Nokia releases (not announces) a new project.
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Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
I read the article, but you and they are missing the point. Why should some company reinvent the wheel from the beginning if they have already released 5 versions of such kind of system?

What else should Meltemi be if not a Harmattan, Fremantle, Diablo successor?

No mather if they call it "for low end"
exactly!

how would one describe N9's hardware in 2 years? yet still it handles harmattan today and probably more optimized meltemi in the future with similar specs (except ram because it is expensive..so limitations to multitasking and that's it)
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2011-10-26 , 11:53
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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
(except ram because it is expensive..so limitations to multitasking and that's it)
...and cheap body, the cheapest display aviable and a really bad camera...

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2011-10-26 , 12:08
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Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
...and cheap body, the cheapest display aviable and a really bad camera...
You forget a cheap price. Which hopefully leads to large numbers of devices around, and to more applications...

As a developer, I am actually looking forward to cheap (open) Linux phones with much greater interest than I would be to high end expensive phones.
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Originally Posted by mikelima View Post
You forget a cheap price. Which hopefully leads to large numbers of devices around, and to more applications...

As a developer, I am actually looking forward to cheap (open) Linux phones with much greater interest than I would be to high end expensive phones.
And I as a customer looking forward to hi end Linux phones for my own, personal, daily usage.
I have no problem with cheap devices with the same system if there are some with superior hardware aviable. But without those?
 

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2011-10-26 , 13:02
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Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
And I as a customer looking forward to hi end Linux phones for my own, personal, daily usage.
I have no problem with cheap devices with the same system if there are some with superior hardware aviable. But without those?
Performance wise, I think the cheap phones could not be much far from N900 level performance. Which is, I think, adequate, especially if the phones are going to have smaller/lower resolution screens. And they are going to be useful for a great deal of tasks. Considering the N900 full potential has been barely tapped, I look forwards to see these meltemi devices. And who says higher end devices will not be developed, if the first model are successful?
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2011-10-26 , 13:28
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...and cheap body, the cheapest display aviable and a really bad camera...
Traditionally nokia's mid to low-end phones (s40) have had very good build quality and materials, usually better than N-Series devices.

I think at some point better specs hardly improve the user experience on a N9 form factor. After all its designed for one-handed use and has a relatively small screen. On such a device most people won't do any productive work which requires lots of computing power. That said, the n9 could need a bit more power here and there for some tasks.

It can be seen with the iphone4s, which most people probably won't buy just because it has a dual core.
 
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Traditionally nokia's mid to low-end phones (s40) have had very good build quality and materials, usually better than N-Series devices.

I think at some point better specs hardly improve the user experience on a N9 form factor. After all its designed for one-handed use and has a relatively small screen. On such a device most people won't do any productive work which requires lots of computing power. That said, the n9 could need a bit more power here and there for some tasks.

It can be seen with the iphone4s, which most people probably won't buy just because it has a dual core.
Nope. Mostly the E-series and N-series had the best hardware, better plastic/metal and such. The low end phones actually are known to break more often. Nokia's good reputations stems from N-E series and/or from phones of early 2000's. And this high end phones also tend to get more media attention.
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Nope. Mostly the E-series and N-series had the best hardware, better plastic/metal and such. The low end phones actually are known to break more often. Nokia's good reputations stems from N-E series and/or from phones of early 2000's. And this high end phones also tend to get more media attention.
I respectfully disagree, IMO the design-oriented mid range had always good build, besides the e-series. Good general N-Series build is a relatively recent phenomena. Depends a bit on how one defines "recent"

E.g. I think the nicest nokia touch phone besides the N9 is currently the C6 (s^3 version)
 

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Build quality aside... I've seen now at Nokia World how the future for this meltemi platform could look like.

Have you seen the 4 symbian smartphones that were announced?

Have a look at the camera module. All of those are fixed focus cameras!
Just to say to the customers: "Hey, you wan't hi-end? Here are our shiny Windows Phones"
 
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