Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

@pantera1989 - don't worry about the patriotic portion of my post.

I hate it when folks bring deep-rooted and wholly unnecessarily existing feelings about one country versus another. I guess being born in one country, raised in another and lived in 4 others... I'm just happy at the moment to have enough room for a garden, the ability to openly talk about the stuff I love - gadgets - and have surrounded myself by folks that know typically more than I do.

Patriotism is a wasted emotion in my books.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

I think it depends on your use cases. For example, I use my IR and FM Transmitter quite often. And there are or places cars that don't have bluetooth or an AUX input. And I can't use any WiFi capable device to control my XBOX 360 when I don't want to turn on the controller. Likewise my TV for the one and blue moon I ever turn it on (I have a 360 hooked up to an LCD monitor).

The TV Out is definantly dependent on that too. While having some sort of HDMI output would be nice, it would only work on one TV in my house, and when I travel I may or may not be able to use it depending on the hotel I stay in. While most HDTVs do have composite as backwards compatibility for devices like the Wii that don't have it.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

They ever fix how you cannot use the FM transmitter while charging the phone?

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Nokia never did, but you can.. FM Transmitter widget, or QWERTY12's FM transmitter.so file that puts it permantely in the menu. It even auto FM boosts it for you if you have it installed.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

To me, that's the way to go...

Because Nokia does not have enough good apps to keep Maemo/Meego, and Nokia does not know how to get developers interested. Plus, the touch screen is not so responsive --- reason: OS/software.

Android is the way to go.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Didn't you remember, nationalism is a kind of mental illness. Many evil things were done under that name.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Can someone make an alternative blog to that one released, as if it was written by one of those tech-bloggers. I know MeeGo has many strengths and many weaknesses against Android, but that article didn't even mention them (the major one's). This should stop trolling some, even by those so-called gurus.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

no but they should make both

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

I would love a dual booting device (I'm hoping the N900 will become one.. or a triple booting one).

Maemo/Meego for the computer like tasks (running OpenOffice, easy Debian, etc..).

Android for when I need a smartphone with GPS aware apps, etc..

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

The problem with Android is Nokia would became just another hardware vendor. Nokia like Apple wants to tie software, hardware and serives together - they cannot do that with Android. Google wants to do software and services only but there model is getting muddy with Android on Netbooks and large tablets where it wasn't meant to be.

MeeGo is a smart move. They fix Google's problem by having references for NetBook, tablets and phones. QT ties them all together and you get to expand on a base that's been maturing for years.