Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

I've just had a little play with the pre-loaded chess app, the bishop and pawn look nothing alike, the take back move button is clearly visible (not explicitly labeled, but easy enough to work out which one it is). I can't really comment on the quality of the Chess AI because I suck at chess, but it did beat me on easy. For a free app included with the phone it seems decent.

Maybe you were playing one of the other chess apps from the repositories, in which case you can't criticise Nokia for it.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Shortage of steam for original thread motivator.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Sure I have read that bug report it is thin and it looks outdated. Hence no credibility is given to your dramatic statement of "nokia finishes maemo support".

Actually you may have forgotten to tell your contacts that apart from the latest client software they need a camera too. :rolleyes: Because from PR1.2 N900 Skype never failed to work with video calls to Win32 Skype video enabled clients.
Both over wifi and 3G.

Apple OSX vs N900 now works too (Skype jumped recently from the "as old as the street" 2.8 version to 5.0 beta).

Without touching the N900 Skype client.

I don't expect to ever hear that Skype has fixed this incompatibility under pressure of Nokia but anyway they have fixed it (and updated the OSX version to the same Skype engine as Windows and Maemo?)

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

It's not too bad, the engine is GNU chess, and there was even a bug filed asking for it to be made easier :-)

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Holy Cow!

I've been away for a few days and here is another monumental whine thread!

I'll chime in with my support story......

My lady friend tried a HTC Desire....

It had trouble hooking to wifi and staying connected....

After seeking support on the forums and Telus (service provider) I called HTC support and they informed me that the older product couldn't support mixed mode wifi, "N" in particular, so they told me to turn off "N" or buy a new router and try that, or to get a Desire or something newer because "we have less problems with them!" He said there were still no guarantees that fix the issue I was having with my 8 month old mixed mode router.

Odd, never had a hint of a problem with any other phone on my wireless. Never had a more pathetic product!

LOOK! Now I'm a whiner Too!!!:eek:

In my opinion forums, like this, are the best support you'll find.
It's too bad we have to see them contaminated with endless *****ing.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

This thread became more of personal fights. I don't know whether few people here trying to support NOKIA or N900. Everyone agree N900 is a great device, no doubt.

The question is " how was NOKIA's support for their own device:"

So if NOKIA has some problem we cannot express just because the they have released a good device? who ever says it is not NOKIA responsibility or user should have searched before buying, they won't take the new feature if NOKIA releases any for the N900.

I don't understand, i buy an device and I express my thoughts and opinions about the device and some people here say " hey don't talk anything about NOKIA even if they do crappy things".

Also please read the following link. NOKIA committed to release voice navigation for N900 but they didn't. They take ages to approve a software on OVI and we should not talk about it ?

http://noknok.tv/2010/01/22/free-ovi...nd-nokia-n900/

From the above link - This is just an example for NOKIA's ignorance of N900.

" This is backed by what the Executive Vice President of Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, had to say at yesterday’s launch event. Vanjoki pointed out that “in later dates we will also be increasing the number of support for this [sic] and certainly moving forward it will also support Maemo”

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

Chess application:

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1...1318235.th.png

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

To me that quote just reads as Ovi Maps will be coming to Maemo, not a specific version of it. I'm disappointed that Ovi Maps on the N900 isn't as good as the version on Symbian-based Nokias, but you need a better source than that to prove Nokia actually promised voice navigation for the N900.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

That's very lame fanboism.

Are you suggesting that OVI maps with navigation will come to maemo 4 devices?

Because there will certainly not be a version of maemo after maemo5.

Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support
 

It's not fanboism, just a careful reading of the quote. I'm certainly not suggesting voice navigation will be coming to Maemo 4. The quote says Ovi Maps (no specific version) will be coming to Maemo. And we got a version of Ovi Maps.

What'll help with the context is did, at the time of the quote (January 2010), the N900 already have a version of Ovi Maps? If it did, then I'll grant that it seems to imply it will be getting the new version like the other phones, if not then it just sounds like it will be getting a version of Ovi Maps.