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Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

The double tap to zoom-to-div-width is from iphone (1st implementation) and the nipple rolls are from htc touch :D

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by sachin007 (Post 317428)

From twitter

"Maemo Device 2 end of Q1 2010, Maemo device 3 some time in 2nd half of 2010. Maemo device 3 will run next generation UI environment."

Any word on whether any of these will NOT be yet another cell phone or a cell-phone laptop?

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

From twitter

"the keyboard feels 100 % better than the N97 great tactile feedback ala E90"

"The RSS app is so darn nice you'll love it as much as I did"

"The calendar is the best I've seen in a mobile phone"

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

Yeah, that architecture looks familiar, most of the people appear to be Finns...

Man, I really miss my trips to Helsinki :(

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by biggzy (Post 317484)

hi to the maemo users from a s60 user :D
The s60 forums are buzzing with the n900 news, expect the maemo community to be flooded with s60 users when the n900 starts selling, the big sites like symbian-freak, allaboutsymbian and myself included all have new maemo domains ready for forums etc.

I just visited http://www.symbian-freak.com.

Seems like an okay enough site, but man is that hard to look at.

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 317420)

I believe the N900 will sell like crazy no matter what.

Really, at its Ferrari of a phone price tag? I'd agree if the price was $350 instead of $700. $700 targets this device to a very very narrow segment of the customer base. I can't see Nokia growing its maemo customer base drastically at $700 a unit, but I'm sure their bean counters have done the math already and know more than I do.

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by ColdFusion (Post 316158)

For those that can't load the video on maemo.nokia.com here it's on vimeo:

http://www.vimeo.com/6296297

Nice device. I want one!

Re: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!

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Originally Posted by st5150 (Post 317703)

$700 assumes a lot.

It assumes that it might be sold at near an exchange equivalent cost to the euro version, instead of being sold cheaper than the euro version (like previous Maemo devices).

It assumes that there wont be a carrier subsidy from T-Mobile.

Both of those are pretty big assumptions. The final price is definitely something I'm not going to be disappointed about until I hear whether or not T-Mobile is going to sell it, and at what price point.

If they do carry it, I wouldn't be surprised to see it available for $300-$350 (with contract). I would be surprised to see it's discounted price be higher than $350. Not because of the device, but because of the way T-Mobile structures it's pricing.