This gets me some nostalgic feelings
When people were thinking n770 is a phone? and were complaining about it?
I still remember the ideas about internet tablets aren't laptops and it wasn't meant for treating it as a laptop (I am sure no one is going to say this anymore :P)

Probably yes, probably no ... I forget what was my user name (I usually pick one of nicks either starts with F,S,E,D and tried many of emails :\ still no luck.

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I was already noting a little change in the character of the chatter (not for better or for worse, really... just a change) in general. I think many will show up and in the end there will be a handful of folks who realize what the idea, the "movement" if you will, can mean for all of us... frankly it is very exciting.

Actually, it's becoming quite boring lately, with all the chatter about the n900, maemo5, eldar, etc., and the really helpful content is relegated to a couple of threads.

The better line would be "I was OS2005 before Maemo took over". The point is that Maemo hasn't developed along a straight line with a clear vision of its purpose and future. There was a break, and from my POV there's two Maemos.

Maemo initially used to sell the idea of a secondary device that does things you wouldn't do on your phone or laptop because of its form factor.
It used to hold a promise of 1:1 desktop like experience, including the complexity and precision required for it, but also resulting in all its endless possibilities.

These were the things that made Maemo and the Internet Tablets cool then. (And that made me buy them.) Maemo sure was cool right from the start.

Then there was the 180° turnaround in 2008 that finally resulted in Maemo 5 and the N900. Primary device with the form factor of a phone, restricted phone experience rather than full desktop experience.
This is cool, too, in some way, but it's no longer what Maemo and the Tablets used to be. It's a whole different game now, recycling the leftovers from the internet tablets.

I couldn't agree with you more. Mind you, I'll still want to get the N900, but I feel like the computer-like ability of Maemo is now fading, at least until Mer takes over.

Hey, I'm a computer nerd, so tablets peak my interest more than a phone.

Jesse~

I wouldn't even say this about me. I'm a computer nerd, maybe, don't know, but I'm extremely picky when it comes to phones. Before I buy one, I spend weeks comparing specs in spreadsheets, running through stores, bugging the droids there until they finally let me try the model so I know how it feels... etc.
And even though I do all this, I never feel like I found the real phone that does what I need.

The N900 has "compromise" written all over it - as all other Icandoallinonedevice-phones. As a phone, it wouldn't even make it to my short list. Size, battery life, screen, lack of real keys... it simply isn't a phone. It was never meant to be one. It was meant to be the computer in your pocket that can also do phone calls.
I need the phone in my pocket that can also do some web stuff and run cool apps.

And then I need a secondary device with a larger screen.
Hey, how about an... how would we call it? - "Internet Tablet" that only connects to my phone but in fact is a small laptop?

Amen to that :}~

Jesse~

Hey dudes! Maemo has *ALWAYS* been cool!

Accordimg to Ari Jaaksi, the original idea was to build a pocketable, Linux-based, VoIP device because at that time, the forecast was for widespread, inexpensive-to-free, municipal WiFi networks. Cellular was not long for this world.

Lobbying by telcos ended that, and so cellular has been added to the mix.

Do I qualify to enter this very select club? Hehe.