Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

I brought in my fairly new boxed e75 to a Nokia care centre because I had forgotten my lock reset code (the phone was working fine and had all my call logs). Despite me telling them various things to prove I was the owner they said they would do nothing without a receipt and not to come back.

Not only was I made to feel like a criminal, I felt that they did not honor their warranty.

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Expect PR1.3 a little while after the release of Qt 4.7

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

I've got several stories like this, but by far, my favorite is the one where I bought my Nokia bluetooth headset--which worked and sounded GREAT, but were designed in such a way that they were flimsy and broke. They're folding headsets and so were INTENDED to be folded up, but they were very thin and brittle at the edge you push to fold them.

They were beyond the 30 day warranty from newegg, so I couldn't return it to them. I called Nokia and asked them to simply replace them--at which time they told me they wouldn't honor the warranty for damage I caused. (ehm.. you designed them thin and brittle--go read reviews!)

Nokia's customer support eventually told me that they CAN provide me with a significantly discounted replacement pair. Great--fine. I asked how much it would cost. Mind you, I had just bought these for about $40 at newegg. Nokia said that with the discount, they could ship me a new pair for around $70. They were nuts. I explained that I'd just gotten a pair at $40 at newegg. She told me that this was the best she could offer.

Great. That was both unhelpful and insulting at every step. I still have the damaged pair to this day as a monument to stupid Nokia purchases. That was, in fact, the straw that broke this camel's back. I'd had several bad experiences before but that was the one that finally taught me how stupid I was to buy Nokia.

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

ill keep it simple here. meego comes out with a bang..but slowly and eventually, android will conquer most n900s..with dual boot ofc cuz we cant get rid of maemo forever..

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

What.. language is that?

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Mangle. It's new.

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Oh my gosh I wonder if its the same as my ones which are also broken, lying on the left side of my desk. Were they around the ear wraparounds?

http://www.gatecomusa.com/images/HENOBLUESTEREO.jpg

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Yyyyyyyyep, they are--but they weren't they one in particular. Similar, though. I can get you the model number when I get home.

Manglish. :)

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Guys, this is what wikipedia says about the N900 under 'History and Availability' - "Nokia says it is step 4 of 5 in the line of Maemo devices which started in 2005 with the Nokia 770".
So, 770, 800, 810 and 900 are steps 1-4 for Nokia. The next device Meego would be their final culminating step 5, whatever that is. So now I ask, were there 'future' for these older tablets? Is Nokia releasing updates to these older NITs? It's the same case with the N900 too. All these intemediate NITs are just stepping stones for Nokia, to finally converge on step 5. So why would they invest on updates for the older throwaway prototypes?
I would also think that once Nokia achieve step 5 (probably on Meego) they would not make their platform as open and hackable as the current one (Maemo 5 on N900). Maybe that is why some of the drivers are still closed source.

Re: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
 

Getting back to the start of this thread. I'm not trolling, but having taken to the n900, and lived with it for a while, I am a bit concerned from what I have read here and there (there being the Meego forum).

So, maybe developers are going to be more interested in Meego, or Android, and leaving Maemo as an interesting backwater with no commercial support? There will be Maemo updates, but that doesn't help out with getting things that work out of the box on many smart phones working on the n900.

Meego on the n900? I just read on the Meego forum that there will only be development releases on the n900. There will never be a finished, polished, stable release of Meego for the n900 which would let you use it as it was intended.

What I find quite sad is that it is a brilliant device, but having lived with it, used up most of my contract-bandwidth in an evening watching a single episode of 'The Deep' on iPlayer, run the OO WP on debian on it, used Skype, made calls, texted, used the browser, but hit a brick wall with maps... I feel it has never lived up to its full potential - and sadly never will. It is quite tragic, as I still feel we are unlikely to see anything quite like it again.

The n900/Maemo is to Android what Betamax was to VHS. VHS was inferior to the Sony giant's video system, and it took VHS a decade to release a device that could come anywhere near Betamax, but it was cheap, and easy to use. People still used Betamax 15 years on, because they were still as good as when they were released - only limited to recording as there were no titles released in that format after a few years.

I'm not expecting new releases of software for the n900/Maemo, nor any release of Meego that will run applications I want on the phone. It will always function at the level it is now, perhaps with a few bugs fixed, never realising its full potential nor running all the apps I want.

I understand that Nokia said this was a developer phone, but I think Nokia should never have allowed carriers like O2 to market these via commercial outlets like Carphone Warehouse as if they were for general consumption. If they never intended this to be fully functional, finished, device, distribution should have been restricted to developers.

This may be step 4/5, but that's not much use when you are stuck in step 4 and not only is the device still in step 3.5, and will never get as far as step 4.5.

I have hung around for a while, but honestly, I now feel all the talk about the great things that lie ahead are wishful thinking. What you see is what you get. People need to be a bit more honest about that. What you get is not that bad, but that is it.

Mish.