Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Deny it all you want, but it's the nature of how this device came into being. Maemo 1-4 was made for devices that had no SIM and no telephony capabilities. It was tacked on in version 5 to provide basic support. It was not re-written whole-sale to be a phone first and have other "smart" stuff going on second. By it's nature, it's a computer, not a phone. All one has to do it look at the model number and lineup to see this.
And deny I shall. The phone function is pure software, not device. Just like the raytracing is done in pure software (on the iPhone/iPad, not necessarily on a remote server--although maybe they DO allow clustering?). The idea of offloading the rendering to an external server isn't exactly too terribly un-PC-like. It IS called cloud computing or clustering and has been around long before the "smartphone" form factor.

Software is just software--you could write video editing for a device that was made to be a phone-first, just as you COULD write a good functional phone stack and software for a PC/computer-first device. A model number isn't going to help you differentiate that.