NOKIA disconnecting people................

sell/return your phone and buy a competitor's phone (iphone or andriod or BB, your choice) and tell your friend Nokia products suck and that Nokia does not look after its user base.

Nokia will only listen to $$$ - they are a company after all.

Nah, I don't think anybody is being forced, that would after all be illegal

But I do think people have, from my pov, a rather very weird stance towards Nokia. I think that it's the communities responsibility to step up and grab Nokia by the balls when they're trying to screw us over ( which I certainly think is the case here ). The truth is that any other mobile manufacturer would be burned at the stake for Nokias behaviour. It's beyond me how anyone can feel that it's acceptable to abandon a freshly released device at a discontinued OS, especially on an OS that's not even complete.

Would you care to explain to us how is that an `abandoned device` got 3 FW updates (one of them major) in less than 3 months, and another major one is coming this/next week?

Yes there's still updates coming to Maemo 5, which is cool. But I believe that's only a short term strategy to avoid the PR disaster of officially anbandoning the device 3 months after release. For example, take a look at http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topi...1716#msg761716 . Now this is just 3rd hand information but with the current developments it does make a lot of sense. Maemo 5 doesn't bring any long term value to Nokia, I'm rather certain this is the reason for why we never will be seeing the free OVI maps upgrade which all other devices are seeing. I can bet on that at one point, long before all issues are fixed, updates will suddenly stop appearing. I have a hard time seing Nokia pouring millions into a platform which exists for 1 single device, a platform that we know is a dead end.

I really hope the team behind Maemo were not dissolved or cut down, they are clearly talented guys, but it would make a lot of sense looking at the situation with outsiders eyes. I really thought Nokia would pick this ball up and run with it, that maemo was the OS of the future. It's pretty disheartening that the project is already dead. We go into a MeeGo future, what that means for us as N900 owners and potential developers I don't know... I know little about Moblin, and that alone doesnt fill me with a lot of confidence about the partnership. I wish someone from Nokia would just come out and say what the future plans of the n900 is in plain black and white. If we're getting MeeGo or Maemo 6 or whatever then great, tell us what that means for us and get us excited about it.. If not, well at least let us know and we can stop speculating/cut our losses/look into other alternatives to own/develop on. It's fine to say Nokia owes us nothing, we paid the money and got the handset that was offered at that price.. but just from a sense of customer focus, developing confidence in the brand with consumers and developers, and all round respect for the community it would be nice.

Meh.. preparing to be told to quit moaning and go buy a fruitphone..:P

Edit: Just reading the "Nokia promises.. perhaps not." thread, my post would probably have been more suited to that thread. I'm not sure I'm fond of the future strategy suggested in Ari's blog comments and the idea that it would be the responsibility of the community to port MeeGo to the n900.. hmm wait and see..

Odd that the Maemo division is still hiring and expanding to new locations around the globe if they've been dissolved.

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