Of course it doesn't, because of many reasons, some of which are
i'm pretty sure that you could just write generic c/c++ code and compile it on device. if you need stuff like the qt libs for a fancy UI, even those should be possible to manually link against.
the sdk just preps all that for you in a nice package, but using build-essentials on-device is still possible, no?
since meego is OSS, the ARM headers and -dev packages are available, aren't they?
the meego wiki is only talking about its OBS based infrastructure, but i imagine that development .deb packages for harmattan will be made available, if they aren't already?
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kinda missed your point e) there
so yea, still possible for "cool hackers" :P
It has double the GPU power and (almost) double the CPU power, double the flash, plus quadruple of your N900's RAM.
It has the same GPU , and the N900 CPU can run very well at 1 ghz , even at 1150 , let's say the n9 cpu could go to 1.5ghz so here is the "double power" , but what about GPU ?
Testing the latest Qt SDK with Maemo Harmattan support with emulator, itsdogslow cause if software rendering probadly cause my hostsystem doesnt support HW rendering in QEmu (NVdidia closed source crap :-@
But if people want to try play with the harmattan download latest SDK
The N9 looks like a super choice for replacing my N8-00. It has the smoothness and slickness I thought I'd see on the N8-00 but have not seen to date. This is in no way a replacement for the N900
I'll keep on using the N900 until it breaks, then I'll get my backup N900 out and use it until it breaks. Hopefully by then someone will have a suitable replacement. Might even be Nokia.
You know, someone could offer me a 2Ghz quadcore with 2 GB of RAM and a 20 MP camera running Android for the same price and I wouldn't be interested.
Specs mean nothing, unless everything else is equal.
I'd rather have a phone that is a joy to use in every day life, than one that pushes a few more polygons per second or allows me to keep 200 instead of just 100 apps running at the same time.
Well that is entirely a personal preference. Each person has to decide what is right for them. I wasn't touting Android over Meego. I was simply attempting to point out that the S2 is , hardware wise, not just something that looks good on paper.
You may want to perhaps take a deep breath and not kneejerk react to every post that isn't a "Wow the n9 is the second coming of Jesus" posting.
