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2010-01-21
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2010-01-21
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Future sales? N900 came out only three months ago!! Many people will buy new N900 in the future, because the price now starts to decreasem and free navigation would be a strong plus!!
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2010-01-21
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2010-01-21
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@ earth?
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2010-01-21
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2010-01-21
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Because Nokia, like everyone else, are planning for future sales, not existing devices.
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2010-01-21
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2010-01-21
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Of course. Free world wide unlimited 3G data subscriptions included would also be a strong plus as the price starts to decrease.
However, Nokia doesn't have it readily available for the N900 at the moment. What they have is an Ovi Maps version that isn't very good. We got that. In the next version of Maemo they've said they will have a better version, free. As the better version is made for Maemo 6, which will cost money and time to develop, in the future, Nokia may or may not decide to make it backward compatible and available for M5. Or someone may or may not find a way to enable M5 to run it without Nokia making any extra work for it.
Right now, Nokia will not put together an extra team of people because they think "hey, the GPS software we put in the N900 people, shouldn't we upgrade that for free?" * 1)
Because Nokia, like everyone else, are planning for future sales, not existing devices.
*) But they may already have done so, in the past. It is a possibility that they are already working on it as a way to strengthen the Maemo name in the market. It was said the list of devices would increase. However, Maemo is not Symbian which explains both why we weren't included this time and why the Maps version on the N900 is different (lousier) than on the 5800 Nav Ed.
And if they were, I don't think we'd been hearing all about the M6 milestone today.
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2010-01-21
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This is the problem. It appears the n900 is already yesterday's technology and maemo 5 will be "legacy" software.
It is all about sales.
The n900 was successful but from Nokia's point-of-view no much money can be made from it once its been sold but they have to support it and this means allocating minimal numbers of developers to it. They would rather use these developers for the next product.
Nokia need to sell devices - the next version of maemo may not manifest itself until a new device is released. They are hoping you are willing to upgrade to the new device and generate more sales for Nokia.
Hopefully when maemo 6 is eventually released we can upgrade our n900s to the new version. If not there will be plenty of people p***** off people.
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2010-01-21
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