Originally Posted by Un27Pee

If one nokian could step in and say something to put all the assumptions and speculations to rest but alas all thier input has worsen the case.
without announcing anything they only have to tell us the leaks are not true and thats all the community is waiting for

Originally Posted by penguinbait

I surely did not by any Nokia device because of Maemo, I bought it in spite of maemo.

Originally Posted by geneven

And I'm not interested in joining Maemo. Or in voting. I'm also not interested in joining the Young Republicans. I'm not young and I'm not a Republican. The idea of joining either just doesn't appeal to me.

Originally Posted by penguinbait

I surely did not by any Nokia device because of Maemo, I bought it in spite of maemo.

Walt: Who are your main rivals? “Three years ago,” says Kallasvuo, “I would not have hesitated to say Motorola.”
Obviously, he won’t be saying Motorola (MOT) today. Kallasvuo rattles off a list that includes Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL) and Samsung. “You can compete with some of them some of the time, but not all of the time. So you must partner,” says Kallasvuo, adding that Nokia (NOK) works with Microsoft on email.

“The cellphone industry is becoming a consumercentric solutions business,” says Kallasvuo. “We are roadmapping now on the basis of solutions and not devices….We are going through a major transformation here and all our operations are being aligned with this change.” A lot of learning must be done there, but there’s also lots of opportunity.

Talking now about the Symbian OS. Why did Nokia open-source it? Kallasvuo: “We bought it to give it away. And it made Symbian better and faster.” Symbian, says Kallasvuo, is the only mobile OS today that is both open and mature. That’s an advantage when you’re competing against the likes of Apple and Google. If that’s true, asks Walt, why do you have these other operating systems? Kallasvuo admits that Nokia has three mobile OS’s, but says this is necessary to address different sections of the market.”

Originally Posted by johnkzin

Don't take this the wrong way, because I certainly don't mean it in an alienating "go somewhere else" way ... but I get the feeling you'd be a perfect consumer for the Moses SmartQ5 and SmartQ7. Plain tablet, runs linux (could probably be made to run KDE). The Q5 is a 5" tablet, and the Q7 is a 7" tablet.

And, to a certain extent, all of the N800 enthusiasts, who care more about "a pocket Linux machine" more than Maemo itself, should at least look at the Q5 ... with the right Linux flavor on it, it might make a good landing place if Nokia really does drop the 4"+ pocketable tablet form factor.

(and, specifically say N800 because it doesn't have a keyboard ... so probably not as happy for the N810 enthusiasts)

Originally Posted by YoDude

Has anybody seen Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo's live interview with Mossberg today?



One line about "MIMO", LoL

Oh and the proice of the phone that is not a Maemo device... $699

Originally Posted by sachin007

The problem is that nokia is not confirming or denying a tablet in the future. I think the community has been led to believe that this whole thing is about tablets and now nokia does a U turn. They definitely need to do some explaining.

Originally Posted by johnkzin

I don't see why that's a problem, wrt to my suggestion. Look at the device. See if it meets your needs/desires, and at a good price point. If it does, then it doesn't matter what Nokia does or doesn't do with the tablet line up: you've got an affordable device that does what you want, no matter what Nokia does or doesn't do.

You don't owe Nokia any false loyalty, any more than they owe you some aspect of loyalty. Go where the product you want/need/can-afford is. Vote with your feet, post over in the competitors forum (or in this one) that you did (if you did), and then enjoy your new gadget. If Nokia notices that they're losing enough customers over their direction (or over their lethargy, or over their ...), then they'll realize that they need to change how they do business.

If they don't notice, or if they notice that they're losing such a small business segment that it isn't going to change how they do business, then you're not throwing money at a company that doesn't give you the devices you want, on a schedule you want, and with a level of care that you want.