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Haha I should have worn my Sunday-best. If only I knew... :)

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Congrats to convulted!!!
Man that was awesome!

Really glad to meet everyone, definitely have a NUG meet when we all have that smug look of satisfaction once the N900 is in our hands. The presentations were ok, had seen most of the stuff before online. But it was nice to be surrounded by a gluttony of N900s. Yea I think the Nokia staff were caught off guard by the veracity and intricacy of some of the questions. As mentioned earlier Nokia were very surprised by the mass appeal of the N900. Especially since they don't deem it a flagship phone (lol).

On what comes next I got a widely varying view. Some state that the next revision should be ready in about a years time, others say more like two. Some say the new maemo (6) will run on the N900 others said it wont. Others say it will be multitouch (cp) without a keyboard, others say that the touch technology to be used is undecided and it will come in 2 or more versions with keyboard etc. What I take away from that is they really are not 100% sure or they are keeping everything very close. Either way our focus should be on the N900 and watching the app development continue with that, since that will most likely be one of the factors to determine Nokias strategy towards the Maemo platform.

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Hate to start rumours but did anyone else spot the first meeting in Tanya's calendar for the 18th November when she had it plugged in to the screens?

It showed "New Rover meeting" or "New rover something"

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My view on this is that Maemo development was previously undermined by lack of truly powerful devices. See, N8x0 wasn't exactly fastest thing around, which wasn't helping the OS that had great potential. With N900 processing power and generally hardware doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, hence I expect to see rapid plaftorm development with fairly frequent updates rolled over-the-air to production devices, which would presumably bring features that are currently not there (MMS, video calling etc etc.). For time being, N900 and Maemo is very geeky device, however I think that within about a year or so Maemo will get mature enough to attract mass-market users too. All in all, I am seeing Maemo's future in bright colours and looking forward to see it's growing. :)

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If anyone caught Tanya's surname and full job title I'd be grateful... I'd like to update my blog post properly rather than just calling her 'a presenter' and 'from Maemo marketing'.

100 internet points to the first (believable reply) and 1 million bonus points if you have a link for her.

*not to self.... ask... for... business cards... put the wine down...*

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Now it might just be the wine but I seem to remember her being introduced as Head of Marketing but there might have been a regional designation there. Suspect a quick google with nokia and marketing would reveal the answer.

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Tanja Sauvola, that is what I think it was according to my memory and Google augmentation.

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http://www.facebook.com/tanja.sauvola
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I hate you Mr. Winner.

The poor fins must have seen your brickphone and fixed the whole shabang!

Hahahaha! So true!

Plus, the exit door confused me for a minute!

Yeah - I spot that! Was wondering if anyone else would say anything.

Check some of the vids on qik I believe you could see it on her facebook, can't remember the name exactly.

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Best update then http://noknok.tv/2009/11/18/nokia-n9...-42-11-update/

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Haha that is so true. I think I was the only one there with a monchromatic screen on their phone. I'm gonna miss my 1110 :D