maemo.org - Talk - My Nokia n810: Once year later

Hmmm.

I've been doing this stuff for 25 years now (ghod, I feel old) -- both working on and with computers, and being an opinionated bastard on teh intertubes.

And I'm of two minds about what you have to say.

I concur that the market is moving ridiculously quickly, and that they probably could have better exploited the lead they picked up with the n series.

Conversely, the OS is reasonably tight, and security updates will, supposedly, still be forthcoming from Nokia for a while, and I have little doubt that the torch will be picked up by the community if they drop it, formally or otherwise.

And the thing's still useful. To me. I read books on it, I show people my photo portfolio on it, I surf on it, I play music and record notes on it.

And it has pretty high geek cred in public, *even* in these days of iPhones, Sidekicks, and the like. I've had to practice my reply to "what is that" so I don't stumble over it... and for what it's worth, it starts with "well, yeah, that was Nokia's problem, too; what to call it. It's a pocket computer, but that scares people off, so they called it an Internet Tablet, but it's *actually* an ebook reader, a web browser with wifi, an MP3 player with decent speakers built in, yada yada..."

So there are two reasonable outlooks you can have about currently available hardware and software, I think, depending entirely on whether you're a fanboy, or just a civilian user.

I'm both, but I'm still relatively happy.

dbec10 makes a good point, though. I shouldn't *care* what my load average is...