momcilo
2011-07-04, 11:40
Quim have no clue. This is above him and it seems that the decision is taken.
But, I'm one of those strange people that still belives in yet another maemo/meego device after n9 and it might be a PAD.
Quim is as far as I understood one of the people defining the core for of this project. In technical respect his credibility is undoubted, but the events have proved that top-engineers are not top-decision-makers. So unless Quim becomes a CEO, I don't see that as a relevant statement.
Will just have to wait and see.
I've tried to check the replacement for my n810 (with a broken touch sense at the moment). Most likely I will order replacement screen and wait to see what happens with future device. Buying N9 based on the former glory would not be a smart choice. If they decide to offer it for up to 400e I will consider it. Seriously everything above that for a smart phone or a tablet is way too much (yeah, I know that there are some there who would sell their kidney for one).
The way I see it, n810 screen size is a bare minimum for that sort of device to be functional, and battery life of heavily used smart phone is modest. I prefer to see a phone as simple dump IP carrier. Physical keyboard is defiantly cool thing, but from the user perspective, that causes device to be fragile. The lifetime of such device should be 3-5 years, so having open hardware that can run Linux is a priority for me.
HP TouchPad (it will be available in Europe soon) and WebOS 3.0 may be interesting enough.
But, I'm one of those strange people that still belives in yet another maemo/meego device after n9 and it might be a PAD.
Quim is as far as I understood one of the people defining the core for of this project. In technical respect his credibility is undoubted, but the events have proved that top-engineers are not top-decision-makers. So unless Quim becomes a CEO, I don't see that as a relevant statement.
Will just have to wait and see.
I've tried to check the replacement for my n810 (with a broken touch sense at the moment). Most likely I will order replacement screen and wait to see what happens with future device. Buying N9 based on the former glory would not be a smart choice. If they decide to offer it for up to 400e I will consider it. Seriously everything above that for a smart phone or a tablet is way too much (yeah, I know that there are some there who would sell their kidney for one).
The way I see it, n810 screen size is a bare minimum for that sort of device to be functional, and battery life of heavily used smart phone is modest. I prefer to see a phone as simple dump IP carrier. Physical keyboard is defiantly cool thing, but from the user perspective, that causes device to be fragile. The lifetime of such device should be 3-5 years, so having open hardware that can run Linux is a priority for me.
HP TouchPad (it will be available in Europe soon) and WebOS 3.0 may be interesting enough.