Originally Posted by volt

I'm starting to lose confidence in phone functionality. I've argumented that Nokia needs to fix a whole lot of stuff to be an acceptable phone. But if they did, the phone would not only be acceptable but superb when you take other things in consideration. It would outshine the N97 too much.

I don't see a trend in people selling superb equipment. It'd be too much of a leap. For such a product to work, it would have to be the most powerful phone on the market. I'm just not that optimistic.

I am starting to believe what some others here say, that it'll just be a smaller, fatter and more expensive tablet with 3G. With fewer keys. And I don't much like that vision.

At least a month till announcement? Bah!

...The new Maemo 5 release, currently in alpha, is adding 3G cellular modem capability. However, cellular voice capability appears to be under consideration for a future version...

Originally Posted by qgil

I haven't seen the whole video and it's the first time I see this, so I have the same info than you. The guy in the Spanish intro says that these were experimental videos done by young artists with low budget and inventing the names of the products.

You invented the term "N900" last year in these forums and a young filmmaker had done the same perhaps even earlier.

None of this has anything to do with real products though.

Originally Posted by YoDude

Yup, I couldn't understand on what basis did people believe the upcoming device was to be a traditional voice phone?

This article[/URL] dated less than a month ago stated:


BTW, the person who is responsible for Nokia's Linux and open source based software and strategy, Ari Jaaski points to ^that article in a recent blog entry.

Originally Posted by gerbick

Then supply something that's better adopted.

Originally Posted by Glasswalker

just one word: amarok

Originally Posted by tissot

It has been made pretty clear that Maemos future will be in phones, but like you i don't get many of Nokias decisions if N900 is not a phone.
N97 would still be different product because of s60. S60 is safe buy for many while N900 might look weird for many traditional Nokia buyers. I got pretty good feeling that Maemo will look great reading comments from here and from mobile-reviews Eldar and that might be it's strong point, but we will see

Originally Posted by gerbick

With some polish, that seriously is a good contender.
But that's some good software indeed. Hope Nokia packages it.

Originally Posted by GeraldKo

While I enjoyed your notion of a model N900-O for old people, and I realize that not every "disability" can be catered to by a commercial enterprise, 60% of Americans are farsighted. (Since I haven't read that fast-food or gasoline-guzzling are causes of farsightedness, I would suppose that this figure is more-or-less accurate worldwide or at least in Europe, as well.)

Yes, I wear glasses, I went to my optometrist last month, but that isn't the cure-all you seem to think it is. (And my eyes aren't that bad, first requiring reading glasses at the ripe age of 29.) So drop this line of argument already, especially as (A) nobody is saying Don't make a 3.5" cellphone; they (we) are just saying, Make a bigger-screened tablet, too; and (B) there are more of us than there are of you!

(The way some of you are talking you would think that a person could see a paramecium on a glass slide if he just held it close enough to his eye!)