chadwsmith | # 1 | 2008-12-02, 19:11 | Report

I saw that there was a really old thread about Nokia buying Symbian, and I didn't want to grave-rob that thread. Violating Forum ettique on your first post is not that smart. But I did want to see what you thought about that in light of the new N97 flagship running that OS. I mean, with a 3.5 touchscreen, it could have easily ran Maemo, but Nokia went with Symbian.

Does that spell trouble for the future of Maemo? Do you think the next Internet Tablet will run Symbian instead of Maemo?

Also I read that some people think the next tablet from Nokia will be 10 inches. I wouldn't mind if Nokia came out with a 10 inch tablet, something like a touchscreen netbook... But I hope the pocketable forum factor continues.

I had and loved a N800 for a while, but had to sell it a few months back. And whenever I can, I plan on getting another N--- series tablet. That little thing plus a fold-up BT keyboard was one of best devices I've ever used!

lardman | # 2 | 2008-12-02, 19:24 | Report

Most of their phones run Symbian, certainly the more advanced ones, so I wouldn't read anything into this choice.

I can't see that happening at all. These are supposed to be portable internet enabled devices, they will remain pocketably small (n810 or n800 size) I believe.

sjgadsby | # 3 | 2008-12-02, 19:36 | Report

Officially, there is no "next Internet Tablet". There's an upcoming Maemo 5 device that won't be an "Internet Tablet".

rjzak | # 4 | 2008-12-02, 19:48 | Report

How sad... I much love the idea of an internet tablet.

meizirkki | # 5 | 2008-12-02, 19:58 | Report

if nokia releases 10inch tablet, i will surely not buy it. (too easy to scratch the screen accidentally)
I really dont believe nokia will replace Maemo with symbian on tablets... no way...

lm2 | # 6 | 2008-12-02, 20:26 | Report

For those of you speculating/worrying about what will "replace" what, this might be of interest:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...228#post246228

amadams | # 7 | 2008-12-02, 20:47 | Report

Apparently Nokia will be using Maemo on it's luxury phones:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/techn...kia-linux.html

j d | # 8 | 2008-12-03, 06:43 | Report

As much as i love both my n810 and Maemo, i will always prefer S60. Its just so easy to become a really advanced user of S60!

Despite all the time I put into it, and it is quite a lot, I am still not great with Maemo. It takes me hours to sovle simple problems. And the "linux geek" crowd might be great free 3rd party software, but its very intimidating... even to geeks!

I think its disgusting the way people in this forum abuse newbies for things like posting questions that have been asked before. But that kind of arrogance and elitism is rife within every linux community I've come in contact with.

And S60 is just so much simpler. You never need to use the terminal, gain any roots or take red pills to get stuff working. It just works!

nhanquy | # 9 | 2008-12-03, 06:55 | Report

oh well we will have iPhone running Linux

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2...ingontheiphone

yerga | # 10 | 2008-12-03, 09:21 | Report

Yes, except when it doesn't work. Someday I will write in some place my experiences with S60 and my expensive N95-2. Some pearls: the Gallery takes 30 seconds in opening, or every X time (periodically) my 3G connections doesn't work, I have restart all settings several times to do it works again.