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Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 View Post
Is anyone else getting as annoyed by the constant "fixed in fremantle" comments on bugzilla? OK, it's great that things are getting fixed, but that doesn't help us now, does it?
This discussion just can't seem to die. Each release has a lifetime, eventually you have to move on to the next release. All software companies do this, just be happy that Nokia is open enough for you to find out about bugfixes 6 months before a release. . . .

Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 View Post
We don't have a real ETA on fremantle, and we don't enough know for definite if it will be ported to the n800/n810. Best guesses are talking Q2 next year, so best case we're looking at 4 months to see these fixes.
Really, honestly, it doesn't matter as much as everybody seems to think it will if Nokia provides an official release for OMAP2 hardware. Fremantle is significantly more open in practically every respect than Diablo, and this will make it much easier to put together a community backport. Either way, let's get a little closer to the real thing before we decide that it will or it wont be released based on incomplete information. . . .

You would prefer they pull an exact date out of thin air, then meet that whether or not the software is ready? Or not meet it at all and just keep pushing it back? It's pretty clear from the SDK timeline approximately when it'll be released: Summer 2009.

Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 View Post
In some respects, that's even more annoying than not fixing bugs; at least if things aren't going to be fixed officially you can start to look for alternatives.
Hardly, I don't know how long you've been involved in the Bugzilla game, but not getting a reply at all (which is typically how it worked) is way more irritating.

Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 View Post
The HTC Touch HD is here already, with a screen almost as good as the nokia's, 3G, GPS, etc... OK, so there's no hardware keyboard, and it runs winmo, but at least it's here now.
Sure, but it isn't using a Cortex A8, just another slow ARM11.
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