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edit: ah and btw: confirmed by a third, independent source that there is the developer harmattan device with keyboard during the next days/weeks.
harmattan consumer device without keyboard, later this year (late summer/early autumn).
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and those sources are ppl you talked to @ MeeGo conf?
zeh, id do a great deal of help if you could refrain from delineating as dev/consumer ... they are both consumers, and it makes it sound like one is exclusive to one group. both devices will be sold, and both will be easily acquired through normal channels.
if there are two devices, just present them as HWKB and VKB .. no reason for dev/consumer, it creates the confusion that we wish to avoid.
Thats not true anymore. Google announced EVERY manufacturer must release updates for at least a year and a half. Sounds reasonable..
I thought i'd buy a meego device. Realistically it wont happen unless that keyboardless is somewhere near magical.
That puts Android next on the list.
It's a difficult call now. I'm in the same boat.
Given what's happened with the N9, as far as I can se, if you want a new phone with a keyboard and don't happen to be a software developer based in California, then you now have a fairly simple choice
It is.... DesireZ .... E7 .... or maybe this new Sony?
So, who's getting what?
I'd rather have Android than Symbian by a long shot, but for me the E7 just looks a million times better as a piece of hardware
both devices will be sold, and both will be easily acquired through normal channels.
everything we have heard so far points to the contrary. dev devices are typically loaners that you have to return in 2-3 years. and they will not be "easily acquired though normal channels" - you will need to either be at some sort of Nokia event or you will have to sign up for the developer device program.
so i think referring to dev and consumer devices separately is perfectly appropriate.
It is, as Harmattan will look & feel very different to the example MeeGo UXes; have different packaging and that was a talk abou an OS, not Nokia's device. A question about Harmattan, rather than the Harmattandevice, would have been (a bit) less off-topic.
About Harmattan having different look and feel from "MeeGo", won't that be always true for any MeeGo device that e.g. Nokia releases?...
Does every MeeGo support the Qt tools Nokia developed, and will Nokia's MeeGos always support Intel's SDK?... We hear a lot about "APIs" but I still haven't figured out how will that work.
BTW, does anybody know is Jessie works at FCC? (for on topicness! )
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