FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Hi,

here's a (german) article in financial times germany claiming that nokia is about to drop symbian in favour of maemo:

http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekom...an/551805.html

MoG

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

If a translation is wanted, I'll do one.

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Easier translation: http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

That would be really cool, but I don't see it. Unless Nokia's CEO was ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AND HAD A MIND TRANSFER. That explains everything.

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Rather, seduced and mindraped by an Evil Penguin.

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Well, better than I thought, had never tried that.
A few details seemed rather unclear,
but the gist of the article is there alright..

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

According to the article, a release of the device is imminent. It could be in September. :)

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Well according to this article: http://www.golem.de/0908/68958.html the release might be next week. I highly doubt that though :)

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

We have seen a unit in a retail box on the photos. This could mean that the devices are already in stores and will go on sale when Nokia finally announces the device. From the first N800 unboxing photos to the actual release was a very short time.

Next week doesn't sound impossible. :)

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

the box says it's prototype and the label inside points that. that's not the final version

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

I like the way Google translated the guy's name: "Nilolaus" became "Santa Claus". Maybe we'll see the RX-71 before Christmas after all!

Re: FTD: Nokia dropping symbian in favour of maemo
 

Well, you can't really make that leap. There were unavoidable reasons for the short period between N800 leak and its appearance at CES (which may not translate to the RX-51)... and I was deep in the middle of it. That leak actually actually caused a lot of problems for me... :mad: