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2011-04-17
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Originally Posted by jalyst
This is looking like a nice option (if feasible) now that Nokia are dragging their feet massively wrt n950(some folk are even speculating Q4 now)
Particularly if the rumors are true, and the one Meego phone they release won't be qwerty.
vodafone rang me yesterday to see if i wanted to upgrade, i explained i was waiting for the n950 and the dude said thats not out till end of the year
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2011-04-17
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did he know in an "internal vodafone" sense or because of what he read on the internetz?
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2011-04-19
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Originally Posted by jalyst
maybe it's better the N900 successor (for which there isn't an official name yet...) gets a somewhat longer development cycle and eventually comes out more or less free of "birth defects".
This is looking like a nice option (if feasible) now that Nokia are dragging their feet massively wrt n950
Particularly if the rumors are true, and the one Meego phone they release won't be qwerty.
despite its being a hacker phone, there is a surprising number of "noobs" who bought the N900 & if NOKIA gets it right, the successor might still get Maemo / MeeGo of the ground.
that's all that might be needed for others like LG or Samsung to jump wagon from ANDroid to MeeGo.
NOKIA knows how to make outstanding HW (N900, of course, but N8 or E7 are here to prove they STILL know) as SW wise.
and except for the 7710 (
which was a calamity by design ) i never had in over a dozen years using NOKIAs a phone that didn't do its job, the way it's supposed to. can't blame the N900 for problems resulting from external software, only, maybe, for the limited functionality of Maemo 5. but one has to admit that Maemo 5, WITHIN its limited functionality, workslet's hope Maemo 6 gets it right. and looking @ MeeGo's state right now, you have to admit there still is quite some work to be done
but i still use my N95 since over 4 yrs en i'm seriously wondering, in case the N900 successor comes w/out a physical keyboard, if a Symbian phone (w/ keyboard AND mSDHC slot) wouldn't be a better alternative... a N7 (E7 with mSDHC) would be perfect.
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2011-04-19
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Well, If you double the processor speed (currently 680MHZ), double the RAM (currently 256MB), hack Maemo on it, I would buy it, scratch out the E7 and replace it with N950.
EDIT: If only it were that easy!
Last edited by mscion; 2011-04-19 at 12:56.
EDIT: If only it were that easy!
Last edited by mscion; 2011-04-19 at 12:56.
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2011-04-19
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Limited functionality? That's the last thing I'd criticize Maemo 5 for. I haven't seen a mobile OS that's any better in that area.
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2011-04-19
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH
agreed 100%
Limited functionality? That's the last thing I'd criticize Maemo 5 for. I haven't seen a mobile OS that's any better in that area.
the N900 + Maemo probably come closest to a "pocket computer" what we had, so far.
but this is *NOT* the software that was developed by NOKIA for it and from all the added software come issues, which is not exactly what you want from a "phone"
e.g. FireFox mobile... it's slow, but is it really Maemo's fault?
the power of Maemo / MeeGo is in fact the OPEN SOURCE
as ANDroid proves, Linux / GNU is not enough
LG seems to have realised that too
then again, as someone else already posted in this thread, the N900 is not ready to be a "business phone"
Maemo 6, maybe
as a matter of fact, it is obvious that the phone function was grafted in more or less @ last minute. one might even wonder in how far NOKIA added the SIM for the network's sake & that someone suddenly realised, gee, man, we could actually add the phone function too, couldn't we?
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2011-04-19
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Originally Posted by mscion
not only is it not that easy.
Well, If you double the processor speed (currently 680MHZ), double the RAM (currently 256MB), hack Maemo on it, I would buy it, scratch out the E7 and replace it with N950.
EDIT: If only it were that easy!
it simply won't do
the N900's successor is more or less the last chance for NOKIA to get it right.
so, sorry pal, but WHAT you think simply doesn't matter
Joe and Jane Doe do have to like it, too
rephrase: Joe and Jane Doe do have to like it
period
a mashed up N900 won't do and NOKIA seems to know it
dixit Rich Green: an "elegant hardware"; they wouldn't do that for us, would they?
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2011-04-19
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Originally Posted by PMaff
Don't get me wrong, the N900 is a beast, and as far as I'm concerned STILL the most versatile smartphone currently available.
That also saved my *** as external USB memory several times.
I am using my N900 with 32GB SD card class 4 up to now without problems. Which other smartphone has 64GB total? ;-)
The diverse calendar applications never made any problems
for business for me. I can send my calendar dates as ical files
from Outlook so I do not need that crappy MS/Nokia synchro stuff.
With "Documents to Go" I can even handle Microsoft Office 2007
documents.
I can also use PDF documents, I can scetch new ideas with scetch
application and mypaint, I can sign PDFs with Xournal.
Email works.
So for me nothing is missing for business.
I remember back when I had an N800 how I felt that the only piece missing was the phone part (I lugged the N800 and a phone around), and how happy I was when the N900 came out.
But for business, the Nokia E series phones (at least till the n900 came out, I haven't tested any newer models) win hands down, sorry. Have you ever used one? My VERY old E61 is still in use today (I gave it to a friend), and works flawlessly. If my life depended on receiving a call or even accessing the internet, I'd still prefer the E61 over the N900.
Business is business. I doubt very many CEOs overclock their phones....
Don't get me wrong, the N900 is much better that any E series phone Nokia has made to date. And I wouldn't trade it for anything currently in the market. But I'm not a businessman. It can do the job for business people extremely well - but the E-series does (did?) it even better.
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2011-04-19
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Originally Posted by maxximuscool
Why not the otherway around? N900 with Symbian OS lol. Symbian never have any Cortext Processor, always with the lower end processor like Arm11.
If N900 can runs symbian then we could have had better support.
what apps are u missing on n900 that is running on n8, e7?
we still has later QT than symbian and Symbian Anna will have exactly the same qt libs that we already is running on n900.
and in case of core bugfixes, we have greatest community fixes ever!?
Particularly if the rumors are true, and the one Meego phone they release won't be qwerty.