Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Even all of palm device got update to 2.0

what about maemo 5 , possible to get update to meego officially ?

What i Expect is just make maemo fast as iphone 2g when i start

programs or play games (some games is less laggy in iphone 2g)

and i can play multitouch's require games with N900 keyboard

Thanks you for developers who make N900 to be more than phone

,Thanks for everyone in maemo.org that give me knowledge

and Thanks to nokia that teach me how it feel when i got betrayed

Ps. Sorry for bad language , I'm Just stupid Thai user .

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Hi Texrat,
I wish I would have been at the conference. Working with the
ideapad makes surely more fun than meego on the n900.
Do you know if there are other ways for developer to
get devices, like the N900 device program?

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

apealing yes, for day-to-day use, not so much.

i'll say this, if i look at the general population want and what the n900 offers, i cant see much overlap between the two.
If we take out the obvious pros of the device(messging,web) you'r left with some pretty mediocre software(media player,calander,modest).
add to the recipe lack of apps/games,the no so user-friendly UI and you got something that almost every phone does better.

I am assuming that a John Doe doesnt care about multitasking nor installing android/ubuntu nor any feature that we know the n900 doesnt sport(i.e mms).

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

After 26 pages of "Nokia finishes Maemo5 support" there isn't one shred of official proof that support is ending.. Since this has turned another complaint topic figured I'd toss in my 2 cents worth, The N900 may not be perfect for all that use it but you have to admit it does do what most of it documentation says it does and granted it has a few hiccups, which need to be address.. but overall if you failed to do your home work or bought the phone because you thought it was cool, then shame on you.for those that took their time you had some idea what you were getting into.. so honestly the only ones that really should be complaining are the folks with the usb or hardware faults or if you where one of the very very rare folks that had a nokia employee grab you by the arm and twisted it and buy this phone..if not then the only one you can blame is you...

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Some of us are hard at work on a MeeGo device program: http://wiki.meego.com/Community_Offi...device_program

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Correct, sorry I didn't make the distinction clear. Thanks pycage.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

All moot points. As a customer purchasing a consumer gadget, you are not in any way or form required to do an investigation of anything but the "as is". This means trying the device in the shop, and when purchasing on the net, you have a right to send the device back if you don't like it.

Of course this also means that if you purchase a device based on hopes and rumors of what it may become, you are nothing but a sorry ***, or you may get lucky. With Nokia the chances are you will get lucky, especially if you get a popular device. The N900 is already old, but still very special.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

I'm not 'required' to be a smart shopper, but if I'm not it's my bad. Neither Nokia or any other company is 'required' to make me one. Ya can't believe advertising claims, gotta take personal responsibility go beyond 'as is'.

Special yes. Nothing else like it. Old not really. I got mine pretty early and it's still just over a year old. But this stuff is moving SO fast devices are considered 'old' sometimes even before they're released. I just got my wife a HTC G2, on pre-order mind you, on Sept 27th and already it's considered an 'old' model. It's only been in stores a month and already the techno nuts act like it's a dinosaur.

Point is, Nokia has supported the N900 with updates for a year, about what I expected when I got it. That's about as long as my old G1 Android phone was supported. With things changing so fast and devices obsolete in not years or months, but weeks, it's probably no longer realistic to expect companies to support such devices much more than a year.

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Btw. has it ever come to your mind that people who are trying to point out why persons x argument is illogical might not be happy with their n900(or nokia). Understanding Nokia's business strategy doesn't mean that you agree on them or like them.

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Yes, but the thing is that "support" meaning updates and upgrades to the OS and software is only a bonus, nothing more. It is something you may or may not get. What you pay for is what you get there and then when you pay for it. Lifetime navigation only means your license for the navigation software will never expire, it does not mean that you will get lifetime updates of maps and core navigation software and so on. If Nokia in their advertisement promised that the N900 could be used with Facebook, and for some reason it couldn't, that is something else and Nokia would have to make it work.

The N900 is very functional. It does everything you would expect from a 'mobile computer', and certainly it does everything Nokia said it would do in their advertisements. From a consumer point of view the N900 is a perfect device, there is no need for more updates. Updates makes all device more fun, but if you cry for updates just for the fun of updating, and demand updates for other reasons than fixing nonfunctional issues, you are a *****. But as I said, with Nokia you more often than not will get lucky. The 5800 still receives updates, more than two years after the launch.