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Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

is nokia lost there minds co-up with MS
cmon nokia made epic OS and epic Phones
they dont need MS
stay with Symbian OS and MeeGo!
or just cp-up with Google Android
but dont do it with MS!

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

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Originally Posted by TA-t3 (Post 941938)

That's what I thought too (N900: For techy types). But then one day I saw a teenager girl using a N900 on the bus.. she seemed utterly comfortable with doing whatever it was that she did. Keyboard out, keyboard in (the Mercedes-door sound was what alerted me to the fact that she was using an N900). Maybe she used that Facebook application I've never bothered with myself? Or messaging? I don't know.

But it turned around my thinking about the N900. When my old mother complained that it was impossible to use her new Samsung phone to read or write messages (too tiny fonts, too difficult to figure out) I handed her my N900. She found it utterly simple. Large readable icons, messages easy to read (they show up on the front before you even start the sms application), easy to phone.. perfect.

In a fit of stupidity, I gave a compterphobic friend a N900. She insisted on paying me back for it. She mainly takes pictures with it, but she loves it for some reason.

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

Cell phone history: Motorola V6 -> Nokia 6620 -> Nokia N95 -> Nokia 900 -> ?(certainly no nokia)

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Originally Posted by jaimex2 (Post 941696)

Actually my gf wants to buy my n900 and is constantly asking me to get an Android phone so she can have my n900 =\ She isn't computer savy in the slightest but can use Maemo fine. She finds it easier and more intuitive.

That's so funny :)

My loves my N900 a great deal. Just because of two things:

1. Movies
2. Movies

/e

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

It seems we are stuck at step 4.
and step 5 actually means community support for both maemo and meego.

•Elop clarified that MeeGo will ship this year but "not as part of another broad smarpthone platform strategy, but as an opportunity to learn."

we are full of opportunities, right.....

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Originally Posted by geneven (Post 941697)

But this is impossible! What happens to step 4 of 5?

the man who said that jumped the train and did go webos now we knows why

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

From what they said at the press conference there will still be a Meego device but it will be a hardware and software test aimed at geeks and probably won't be marketed at all.

So it's the N900 all over again.

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And now it is confirmed that Nokia has absolutely no idea of what it is doing or where it is going.....maybe enough people will buy WP7 phones to make it worth it. After experiencing windows 6.5 on a touch HD I have no intention of EVER buying a phone with windows on it again. Samsung may be the next hope....bye Nokia, it was fun. At least I have a 770, N800 and N900 to prove that at one time you thought progressively.

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Originally Posted by Faustino (Post 941867)

And now it's confirmed that Qt will have no place.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/n...s-phone-devel/

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

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Originally Posted by evan (Post 942058)

Man am I glad you brought that up. For years all I seemed to hear was "just wait for step 5", when step 5 was a nebulous idea that kept changing as Nokia's inner management held pissing matches.

Re: Goodbye MeeGo; We hardly knew ye

I wouldn't mind another phone like the N900, even if they do the same and drop support after one or three updates.