Originally Posted by acvetkov

I want my N900 to make coffee 3 minutes before I wake up. Damn you Nokia how could you not include this function along with the four booth with windows,android and symbian!!!!!

Originally Posted by m0da

who the **** wants symbian on their n900

Originally Posted by rickysio

Please take a look at all currently released symbian phone (or rather, what buttons they have), or GTFOff your *** a port Symbian yourself. Since you have so much fantastic ideas.

Originally Posted by chaoscreater

Rather than u raging and telling me to GTFO from my own topic, y dun u get a life and stop bashing against other people's ideas, coz that's wot u've done all this time, whereas i was nice in the first place. Learn to understand the situation ur in be4 u tell ppl to gtfo from their own topics. Ur the one that read it and keep coming back. Not to mention that i'm not even raging.


And YOU go take a look at the symbian phones. I did a fair comparison between the N900 and the N97. N97 runs symbian, right? Well aside from the keyboard differences, tell me exactly how many buttons this thing requires, here i'll even post a link for ya:

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n97-pictures-2615.php


the pics are at the bottom from all angles. The only extra buttons N97 have is the typical pickup/end call button, that that little side button next to them.

3 extra buttons on the front face of the phone. Ur previous comment was saying that people couldn't use their phones without a end task button, and i answered already saying that there's no need for that, as long as we make a few adjustments so that symbian ends tasks the same way that we do on maemo.

And please learn to read, i've also given a 2nd example in my previous previous comment, the upcoming Nokia N9 runs symbian and it doesn't even have anything other than the hardware keyboard:

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9-pictures-3398.php


And why don't you give me some concrete examples of what kind of symbian apps or features that won't work on the N900?? Do you see Android running natively on the N900, Windows Mobile or iPhone? No? Of course not, they never came with it installed. BUT Then how were they ported and able to run fine on them?? HMM?


Let's put it this way. Let's just put aside the differences between N900 and N97, let's pretend they all use the same OS. Now answer this, can both devices perform the typical same tasks that we use everyday?? Now compare this with EVERY OTHER PHONE. Iphone only has 3 buttons (power, volume, home), and yet it can do the normal same typical tasks just like EVERY OTHER PHONE.

The buttons aren't the limitation, as long as you port and map the keys to the touch screen or use other keys like the hardware keyboard, this isn't impossible at all. Key mapping is all it takes, just a little adjustments here and there.


I really don't understand y u find this impossible, it makes me wanna face palm when clearly so many examples are out there. If this was impossible, the word "porting" wouldn't even be a word in the first place. Words like hacking/modding/jailbreaking/rooting wouldn't be there in the first place either, because we'd be too stupid to tamper with our phone and make changes, according to your statement.



I would like to try this out just for fun but without the right tools, i can't do crap at all, after all symbian isn't open source.

Originally Posted by maluka

tl,dr
From what I skimmed above, you got a few things wrong.
1. The N9 is the first MeeGo phone, not Symbian.
2. Symbian is Open Source

Originally Posted by chaoscreater

Ok, but is that confirmed or just speculation?? I found so many Google results where N9 was shown as symbian. Regardless, that was just an example, my reasonings still proved it doesn't matter anyway.

As for Symbian going open source, that's my bad. I haven't used it since 6 years ago so haven't been up to date.

Originally Posted by ossipena

so it is nokias fault that even when it was clearly announced that n900 is "step 4/5" (5/5 meaning polished end product), some people want to moan about it not being polished?

Originally Posted by kureyon

* Actually I would appreciate any link, I've seen people liberally mentioning these mythical 5 steps but a quick google didn't find any source for it.

Originally Posted by kureyon

I don't recall Nokia saying that anywhere on the N900 section of their website (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) - if it is there I would appreciate a link[*]. And I would very much doubt that Nokia would have mentioned it in any of their marketing materials/campaigns. Regardless, while I can live with it not having features that it does not claim to have however I would expect that the features that it claims to have are working bug-free. Manufacturers these days are forever releasing sub-standard, unfinished products - conscientious manufacturers would then release updates to fix defects and unscrupulous ones try to encourage you to buy their latest products which supposedly fixes the defects but most likely introduce new defects.

* Actually I would appreciate any link, I've seen people liberally mentioning these mythical 5 steps but a quick google didn't find any source for it.