I am really looking forward to the device with keyboard. If this one will not be buyable by "normal" people somehow, I don't see a reason why to replace my N900 & N8... :-(
I was also told by the Nokian who told me this is the dev device when I started to moan that I wont even want this when I see the Consumer device anyway, reckons we are in for a surprise
I was also told by the Nokian who told me this is the dev device when I started to moan that I wont even want this when I see the Consumer device anyway, reckons we are in for a surprise
jeebus.. WTF DOES THAT MEAN!!!!!!!!!. I h8 nokia employee secret talk.. The person i know does the same f'ing thing...
Pre-release firmware is one difference between developer devices and consumer ones. The N900 I received in Amsterdam was (physically) the same as the consumer device, but with pre-release firmware.
But in this situation developers will get their hands on an exclusive not-to-be-released Nokia device. Which has happened in the past before: Nokia 7700. And after years, people got their hands on it. )
So developers devices will be available in numbers like 400 in total? One can forget about it then. So what's the expected differences between the developers and consumers device then, besides the point whether consumers one comes with or without a hw keyboard?
What he said was that there were 400 N900 developer devices, which means that the numbers probably are in the same range. Either way they are not for sale. It doesn't mean the consumer device will be different in a noticeable way. The N900 developer devices were, iirc, identical to the final ones.
Anyway here's how I figure/hope it will be, based on rumors, zehjotkah's info and N900 experience:
Developer devices (and the sdk) will be out during meegoconf, then the lucky developers who gets one can make some apps and test and report bugs and whatnot, and after a month or so the final device will be out.
that's how rumors start.
I was talking about the N900, the device which is about two years old...
I understand, I was just comparing the two cases (of N900 and N9) potentially.
The idea of hardware being the same, and different level of OS maturity, sounds good. At least consumers' device won't be physically crippled. (Hopefully it won't have any restrictions either, like on dual booting and etc. comparing to the dev device release). However if consumers device will come without a hw keyboard or will have some weird restrictions - I doubt it'll interest me.
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