There is screen tearing all throughout the OS. Maemo's graphics driver does not support vsync.

But why does nokia do this on their most expensive phone and on their best OS? Instead of leaving us stranded and follwing that s**tgo, they gotta plan an OS and keep on supporting it, just like Droids. I bet Meego will only last 2 weeks, and crap out support when Nokia announces what? "Youcome" OS?

you aren't that rich, boy.



e: ps. I cannot believe how badly you people have deceived yourselves. well, happy ranting in this thread to make you feel better but facts have been set to stone already before n900's HW was even designed. and yes, all the information is available (but pretty hard to find) but it should not stop researching in the first place. and enough information should be found pretty easily.

The N900 has the hell lots of greeeeeeeeeeeeeeat potential. "Sudo potential" . The biggest mistake is that it was created by Nokia.

you have a lot of potential. shame that it cannot exit your head at all under all that ranting.

Ah c'mon. Hindsight is 20/20.

Those who say anything along the lines of 'it was perfectly clear since the n900 was released that....' has obviously fallen into that pitfall.

At any given time you are considering many different possibilities all at the same time; and whichever of those turns out to be the case, then you will feel that you've already thought of that possibility; even though you may may be far from certainty at the time.

I still remember the euphoria of n900 when it was being released and the anticipation of garnering good press reviews, 3rd parties support, ovi store, etc.

The MeeGo announcement (and what followed) hit the community like a ton of brick.
Let's not stay in denial.

I'm not so sure. Near as I can tell, I held off buying one because it felt like too much of a repeat of previous history and waited for positive changes that never came. I'll also point out that changing ITT to TMO was another one of those very, very early hints that made people suspicious "all along" and you'll also note how we lost a LOT of the old members around the time of the N900 release (and just before--when I remember a lot of people suspecting the N900 of being vapour). Nokia hasn't instilled a lot of confidence all along the way, really. The switch to MeeGo was generally surprising but I'm pretty sure people were fully expecting the worst from Nokia, as they've been notorious for it by that time.

It seems developers (companies rather than individuals) are being encourage not to do so from what is being suggested on the instinctiv thread?

I believe that the story around instinctiv is mostly link to the release of Harmattan.
From what I understand, because Nokia doesn't want to give a date to Instinctiv or has told them not to expect it before some time, because of that, Instinctiv is holding up their application because they need (big) cash in a near future.

Apart from that, I never expected a lot of support from Nokia given the limited user base. So I am not (too much) disappointed if no PR1.4 will ever come with some more improvements regarding Ovi Maps, Flash...etc...

What I expect however is the presence of Qt attracting developpers. And so far, either it is not working, or they keep it for the release of the next device, or it is on-going.... But as a user, I do not see much from the presence of Qt yet.

My understanding is that N900 is proposed to developpers to prepare the coming of Harmattan/Meego but that does not mean at all that Maemo will receive either more support from Nokia or more commercial apps.
The only thing we can expect is maybe some Qt updates to continue helping developpers to prepare coming devices.

what hindsight? I was referring to the facts that were there since 2009 (pre N900 release) and expectable outcome was pretty obivous but not 100% certain. now when the obivous outcome is here (a bit later than I expected), I am being hindsighted?

e: a simple tmo example pre N900 release:

a) N900 will be around for an year and after that its successor will replace the device

b) the successors OS can be ported to N900 ignoring clear announcements about hardware limitations (multitouch, drm)

and after meego release:

a) N900 will be used for application development etc for meego platform just like Aava (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/a...type-hands-on/)

b) N900 will get full meego and support from Nokia from this point to infinity!!!

unfortunately in here the option b is announced by someone and taken for granted by the rest. then when option a is actually confirmed, the ranting starts. and because of the "b-mentality", there has not been room for statements supporting the option a because the people supporting "b-mentality" are loud and good spammers.