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Re: Nokia N800 & Maemo 5

im back after abandoning my N800 for years, lol. i just saw the N900 clip on youtube and was ecstatic about it. too bad N800 users cant upgrade with Maemo 5. i cant afford the N900, sucks!

Re: Nokia N800 & Maemo 5

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 316607)

Unless Nokia releases a 3D driver which will probably help... I wonder though if that will happen soon with the new device coming out and all. If you can run Maemo 5 on N8x0, will you buy the new device?

What would appeal to me and probably many developer types too would be if Nokia kept doing whatever it can to help the EOL'ed devices finally reach their true potential through Mer and backports of the main apps and tools.

That IMO would help sell the Maemo platform and differentiate Nokia as a responsible stakeholder in this larger community thing.

(So when the new N900 is EOL'ed in a year or so, its user community could likewise expect some level of continuity - akin to Ubuntu's Long Term Support releases)

Re: Nokia N800 & Maemo 5

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Originally Posted by eluis (Post 316609)

for me, the biggest flaw: A decent RSS reader

i use tear with google reader and it's ok.

maemo 5 for nokia n810?

Is is possible if the nokia n810 can have a maemo 5 hackers edition?

Re: maemo 5 for nokia n810

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Originally Posted by gokuman56 (Post 322375)

Is is possible if the nokia n810 can have a maemo 5 hackers edition?

Yes, Mer.

There are several discussions[1] about this in this forums, a quick search should show some of them.

[1] - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31022

Re: maemo 5 for nokia n810

gokuman56, for future reference please use the search function in this forum. Thanks.

Will Maemo 5 run on Nokia N810?

If yes, when will it be officially released?

Re: Will Maemo 5 run on Nokia N810?

No, it will not. Mer is the upgrade path for existing tablets.

Re: Maemo 5 and N810?

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Originally Posted by bhang (Post 300919)

well, I could careless about whether or not the 810 got its 2 releases or not, Im just saying I have a great device with very capable hardware, even if it is a bit old and slow, this is where *nix shines, making the most of hardware, not HOGGING resources like it was coded in redmond, wa. if you ask me NONE of the maemo releases were ever 100%, there is still no PIM support (thats worth a damn anyway, gpe & ermig sp? just barely cut it)
all the releases were buggy and quick to slow down, I have an sd card freshly formatted to fat32 my n800 uses it just fine while the 810 says its damaged or unformatted, the video player was always choppy even with NOTHING else running.... the whole fiasco leaves a bad taste in my mouth and anybody who says the n8x devices were treated fairly, is either a complete lemming, a nokia employee, gen antillies or they have more money than sense.

I paid like 350 for the 2 tablets 1 n800, n810 and now the support has been dropped, im friggin livid, I can only hope that mer will see a fully functional nit OS, cause IMOP NOKIA never achieved that.

if the new series is so great, then they should continue the maemo 4 line, my palm 3x had support for like 5 years or so, nokia dropped the ball on this, but the community (- the lemmings) should pick it up, I have mer dual booting on my n810, I just cant seem to get anything from the repos listed in the app mgr, so I guess its time to give up on nokia doing the right thing and move on to MER.

I'm gonna ditch this taco stand...

BTW,

If they think anybody burned by nokia on these NITs will ever buy another nokia device they are as crazy as they are disloyal, I would have never bought one of them if I knew they would only support it for a year or 2, if its that disposable why not just make it from cardboard?????

still very angry,

BhanG

:mad:nokiasuxnokiasuxnokiasuxnokiasuxnokiasuxfunok iaUbastards:mad:

Absolutely right! I bought my n810 brand new just last October as the n810 wimax became available as a *new* release NIT. I dont know about you, but i'm not buying Nokia staying true to Open Source or its community, once N900 or its successor become a hit in the market we will see all sorts of crippling actions from Nokia, ignoring the whole idea behind open source or free software. Its a hit it and leave it strategy, use their "niche" customer base as building blocks for a future top product, dump them with the bill of outdated hardware and dropped support, then say "thank you very much, hope you enjoyed getting screwed, now if you'll excuse me, I've got some money to make."

Re: Maemo 5 and N810?

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Originally Posted by saruji (Post 331975)

"thank you very much, hope you enjoyed getting screwed, now if you'll excuse me, I've got some money to make."

That's any corporation's motto.

Now, on the other side, I'm happy to see that very bright people are on nokia's payroll, and also thankful for each OSS' package whose bugs (bugs that would get classified as low priority by any sane company) I can fix myself, which makes _my_ N810 a top quality product, at least for me.