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2010-08-29
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Originally Posted by n900faniam
While your points are valid...i wouldn't add much hope to things changing in the near future.
Has Nokia/Ovi completly given up on the N900/Maemo user?
I've just been onto the Ovi store, first time in about a month, and as far as I can tell there isn't a single new app available.
With retrospect, I think having an app download facility on this site has made it way too easy for Nokia to take their foot off the gas and leave it to the Maemo community to develop and support the N900.
In all, we have fewer than 600 apps available for our handsets, while other manufacurers have literally tens of thousands of support features and apps available.
Come on Nokia, sort it out!! You're the ones that benefit financially from a solid support base. Time to work for your money.
Your gonna have to accept that Nokia has no intention in supporting N900 from an app perspective anymore. They've moved onto their 'Meego' project and developers alike have moved on from Maemo or weren't interested to begin with
The consumer base using the N900 (Maemo OS) isn't big enough for many developers to see a solid ROI, economie's of scale drive everything my friend
If i was you i would do one of these things or more...
1. Accept the N900 with its limited mainstream apps/games
2. Get an Iphone or Android handset
3. Wait for Meego and get your hands burnt by Nokia again
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2010-08-29
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Thanks Nathan
Frustrating stuff, the N900 was marketed as the next best thing by Nokia a little over 12 months ago. I appreciate hardware dates pretty quickly these days, but Nokia have abandoned this phone like no developer or manufacturer has before.
For me, its going to be option 3. The eternal optimist in me says Nokia surely won't get this bored this quickly again.
The idea of becoming an isheep is very unappealing
Frustrating stuff, the N900 was marketed as the next best thing by Nokia a little over 12 months ago. I appreciate hardware dates pretty quickly these days, but Nokia have abandoned this phone like no developer or manufacturer has before.
For me, its going to be option 3. The eternal optimist in me says Nokia surely won't get this bored this quickly again.
The idea of becoming an isheep is very unappealing
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2010-08-29
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Originally Posted by n900faniam
Haha, option 3 is my choice aswell, however only God knows when Nokia will actually release their Meego Handset. Some people are saying October, but i'm thinking more around the 'end of time'
Thanks Nathan
Frustrating stuff, the N900 was marketed as the next best thing by Nokia a little over 12 months ago. I appreciate hardware dates pretty quickly these days, but Nokia have abandoned this phone like no developer or manufacturer has before.
For me, its going to be option 3. The eternal optimist in me says Nokia surely won't get this bored this quickly again.
The idea of becoming an isheep is very unappealing
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2010-08-29
, 08:55
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Option 4- Pray NITdroid becomes the n900s salvation.
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2010-08-29
, 09:11
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I even don't think about OVI!
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2010-08-29
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Instead of/while waiting for MeeGo, you could try out Easy Debian.
For me at least, this turned out to be the ultimate application on the N900. On my desktop and my laptop, I run Debian, so it was particularly natural and satisfying to have that almost fully on the N900, too. OpenOffice, Gimp, CUPS, VPN, symbolic math, encrypted file systems, LATeX, and several text utilities all work surprisingly well, and I'm afraid won't as well on the N9 once the resistive screen and the stylus is gone. In fact many things work well also without stylus, my favorite applications being zim, a small desktop wiki, and geeqie, an image viewer I like better than the one from Maemo. Because of this, I don't care so much about N900 specific apps any longer.
For me at least, this turned out to be the ultimate application on the N900. On my desktop and my laptop, I run Debian, so it was particularly natural and satisfying to have that almost fully on the N900, too. OpenOffice, Gimp, CUPS, VPN, symbolic math, encrypted file systems, LATeX, and several text utilities all work surprisingly well, and I'm afraid won't as well on the N9 once the resistive screen and the stylus is gone. In fact many things work well also without stylus, my favorite applications being zim, a small desktop wiki, and geeqie, an image viewer I like better than the one from Maemo. Because of this, I don't care so much about N900 specific apps any longer.
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Need more apps for the N900? Check out Qole's Easy Debian and read the wiki!
My Easy Debian installation log
Need more apps for the N900? Check out Qole's Easy Debian and read the wiki!
My Easy Debian installation log
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2010-08-29
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I wonder what applications do you think N900 is missing?
I have found awesome application's for everything. Don't you use maemo.org's repositories?
I have found awesome application's for everything. Don't you use maemo.org's repositories?
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2010-08-29
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go to nokia, and tell them all of that.
this place is not a good idea.
this place is not a good idea.
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if i did help you, just click "Thanks" on the lower right of my post. thanks!
"The best way to break a Spell is to prevent it from being cast in the first place"
N900: 1000/1150mhz; sampling_rate 15; up_threshold 150000;
if i did help you, just click "Thanks" on the lower right of my post. thanks!
"The best way to break a Spell is to prevent it from being cast in the first place"
N900: 1000/1150mhz; sampling_rate 15; up_threshold 150000;
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2010-08-29
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two points from reading the above posts.
12 months is a long time in the technolgical world and some people think exactly the same thing
is going to happen to n9 meego device as happened to the n900 maemo.
12 months is a long time in the technolgical world and some people think exactly the same thing
is going to happen to n9 meego device as happened to the n900 maemo.
I've just been onto the Ovi store, first time in about a month, and as far as I can tell there isn't a single new app available.
With retrospect, I think having an app download facility on this site has made it way too easy for Nokia to take their foot off the gas and leave it to the Maemo community to develop and support the N900.
In all, we have fewer than 600 apps available for our handsets, while other manufacurers have literally tens of thousands of support features and apps available.
Come on Nokia, sort it out!! You're the ones that benefit financially from a solid support base. Time to work for your money.