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2010-01-05
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#72
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Originally Posted by mysticrokks
Heh, you mean to tell me that you think there could be more than one good device in this world. Yeah, definitely not normal.
i feel really wierd i love both . its obviously not normal is it.
and i really couldnt imagine ever going on an iphone board it sounds like carnage..
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man
Thus a developer could make an app on Symbian (using QT) that would also run on the N900, and the Maemo 6 device. Likewise an application developed using QT for Maemo could also be used on Symbian.
3 years ago, if you wanted to develop for mobile you had choice of windows mobile or symbian. Now you have iphone, windows, symbian, android, maemo, palm
What is Nokia doing to attract developers (other than a free loaner device) when there potentially alot more money to be made in iphone,andriod apps with better documentation and marketing.
I don't see how Nokia is going to attract developers away from the other platforms other than an app store with:
- 90% profit to developer
- at least giving 100 dollars for each non-fart app just for creating the app
- access to all the Maemo source code and shipped apps on the phone to see how things really work under the covers.
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#74
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who cares, go buy one if you want that support!
i got an n900 one of my friends just orderd an N1 because i got the n900 he didnt want to come behind me and get the same device, my other friend got suckerd into a droid ... rip
the thing is they are all EXCELLENT this day and age, i cant complain, my GPS is quick like >10seconds quick. the battery life will get optimized later on, no worries, be patient. maps is worthless but how about this, can anyone tell me if the google earth thats on the new android can be ported to maemo with the hardware accel in tact? how hard would it be to repackage? voice entry for all fields is amazing as well, which makes up for the lack of keyboard.
but contacts/conversations intergration on the 900 however is remarkable!
stop nagging just cuz we spent money on this device. itll be ok, its just a "mobicomm"
^^ too above ** im pretty sure linux hasnt had a problem ... attracting devs. its not a matter of maemo specific apps so much as its porting existing desktop applications, which are already in existence.
Last edited by shady; 2010-01-05 at 21:35.
i got an n900 one of my friends just orderd an N1 because i got the n900 he didnt want to come behind me and get the same device, my other friend got suckerd into a droid ... rip
the thing is they are all EXCELLENT this day and age, i cant complain, my GPS is quick like >10seconds quick. the battery life will get optimized later on, no worries, be patient. maps is worthless but how about this, can anyone tell me if the google earth thats on the new android can be ported to maemo with the hardware accel in tact? how hard would it be to repackage? voice entry for all fields is amazing as well, which makes up for the lack of keyboard.
but contacts/conversations intergration on the 900 however is remarkable!
stop nagging just cuz we spent money on this device. itll be ok, its just a "mobicomm"
^^ too above ** im pretty sure linux hasnt had a problem ... attracting devs. its not a matter of maemo specific apps so much as its porting existing desktop applications, which are already in existence.
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#75
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Originally Posted by danramos
Dont get it to serious of course is absurd there is no N910 and we hardly now about existence of Maemo 6.
That's absurd, considering a perfectly fair comparison can, in fact, be drawn between two now-existing phones released within the span of two months.. "Nexus One with Android 2.1" (Jan 2010) vs "N900 with Maemo 5" (Nov? 2009).
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Originally Posted by iamNarada
You're correct that *core* apps released from the parent can be compared. Which is what I said.
Hmmm...I think you're right, people aren't complaining about the "stock" OS, they're complaining about the apps officially release from the parent, and in some cases the hardware. And I'm sorry, but there isn't really much of a point in saying the Navigation on android used to suck, any more than there is a point to comparing Android 2 to Maemo 6. I'd go out on a limb and say that the quality of the "core" apps is a legitimate gripe, not a could be. Hardware differentiation in smartphone is pretty subtle nowadays and while it does make a difference, it's really boiling down to the user experience which is in large part dominated by the quality of the software.
Ovi Store, GPS, Navigation, Browser
And, it's been a long time - but IIRC the older Android's didn't even really have a "navigation" thing.. it was a kind of overlay with google maps that didn't really work - didn't keep the screen awake - didn't have voice navigation... it was crap. And I believe most of the current phones are still stuck with it (I have a rooted one, I'm not sure). Actually I thought I'd test it.. I'm on a *rooted* android phone. I go to Maps, Hit Directions, plugin my info - Now if I just hit submit.. I get the crappy one.. so I hit "Navigate" - which is the good stuff... I now get a big arsed banner: "Google Maps Navigation is in beta. Use Caution. Do not manipulate this applcation while driving. Traffic data is not real-time and directions may be wrong, dangerous, prohibited, or involve ferries."
So hell.. even Android's navigation stuff isn't truly out yet.
But in any case.. each of the phones out right now from android have at least 1 update released. You haven't even allowed a single firmware update from Nokia to see if it fixes anything.
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2010-01-05
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Originally Posted by mysticrokks
I rather LOVE my new Droid and I'm having a hard time wanting to sell off my N800 (coworker is trying to convince me to sell it to him). I would have liked to have gotten an N900 but it's too expensive and I don't want my computer to be a phone. I don't consider my Droid a computer first--I see it as a fancy PHONE. The N800 was always a computer to me. The N900, to me, seems more like sadly crippled phone that wants to also be a computer. Do not want.
i feel really wierd i love both . its obviously not normal is it.
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2010-01-05
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One thing I don't get is the complains about appstores. What is that about. Why? Why? What's missing that you can't get at the moment that a appstore would solve. Everyone speaks about it but I don't get what it would do. Please tell me.
I agree about a better navigation software but an appstore will not solve that.
I agree about a better navigation software but an appstore will not solve that.
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Bah just read that the Nexus batches pictures by date for easier sorting. Congratulations Google you just implemented a feature I had in SnapPhotoPro 12 months ago. Colour me unimpressed, sorry but all the fancy wallpapers in the world arent going to change the fact that the hardware access via android still sucks and the emulator support eats the big one.
Sorry - Dev Rage
Oh and STILL no damn app on SDcard support. How long now has that been an issue?
Sorry - Dev Rage
Oh and STILL no damn app on SDcard support. How long now has that been an issue?
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2010-01-05
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Originally Posted by bugelrex
Symbian has most of the world's smartphone market (if I remember reading it correctly)..that's an incentive right there. Your app could theoretically target an audience that dwarfs everyone else.
3 years ago, if you wanted to develop for mobile you had choice of windows mobile or symbian. Now you have iphone, windows, symbian, android, maemo, palm
What is Nokia doing to attract developers (other than a free loaner device) when there potentially alot more money to be made in iphone,andriod apps with better documentation and marketing.
I don't see how Nokia is going to attract developers away from the other platforms other than an app store with:
- 90% profit to developer
- at least giving 100 dollars for each non-fart app just for creating the app
- access to all the Maemo source code and shipped apps on the phone to see how things really work under the covers.
We're probably more likely to benefit from Symbian apps coming to Maemo than Maemo apps going to Symbian given that Maemo has an upward climb.
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Originally Posted by ysss
They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
LoL. What wonderful dreams you have! A n910 this year!? I guess there is precedent, the n810 and the n800 were both announced in the same year, though I don't remember when the n810 actually became available. Regardless, the N1 is shipping today, and countless people have put their hands on it. I'd say that puts it up for comparison to the n900.