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gemi | # 231 | 2010-02-15, 18:04 | Report

Let's see:

In 4 months, Nokia will present the N950 running MeeGo, the N900 is officially discontinued and unsupported (which it has been de facto for 4 months). The N950 will be touted as the new flagship, but its software will be unfinished and missing several crucial features, but you will be able to make phone calls.

In 8 months, Nokia will announce with fanfare the great news that they have concluded a partnership with AMD to develop a mobile software called LetsGo (based on an previous attempt called MeeGo).

In 20 months, Nokia will show the N980 running LetsGo, the N950 is officially discontinued and unsupported (which it has been de facto for 4 months). The N980 will be touted as the new flagship, but its software will be unfinished and missing several crucial features, you will not be able to make phonecalls, but you will be able to listen to music.

In 16 months, Nokia will announce with fanfare the great news that they have concluded a partnership with Lego to develop a mobile software called NoGo (based on an previous attempt called LetsGo).

In 18 months, Nokia will show the N980.5 running NoGo, the N980 is officially discontinued and unsupported (which it has been de facto for 4 months). The N980.5 will be touted as the new flagship, but its software will be unfinished and missing several crucial features, you will not be able to make phonecalls, you will not be able to listen to music, but you will be able to boot it.

etc.

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syncdot | # 232 | 2010-02-15, 18:10 | Report

Originally Posted by Digbum13 View Post

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2359259,00.asp

Sounds promising on the N900 front.

Yep. Seems like N900 will get its share too.

Originally Posted by

Oistano pointed to Nokia's N900, a Linux-based smartphone introduced last year, as an example of devices that would benefit from MeeGo.

"MeeGo can run on many different devices, [so] people will be able to keep their favorite applications whenever they change their devices," Oistano said. "Applications will not be locked into one company's devices or a walled garden. Rather, we see the MeeGo ecosystem as an open frontier – no walls, no fences."

Sounds very promising.

NokiaRocks | # 233 | 2010-02-15, 18:11 | Report

@gemi : Made my day

NoGo xD

wmarone | # 234 | 2010-02-15, 18:12 | Report

Originally Posted by

Rather, we see the MeeGo ecosystem as an open frontier – no walls, no fences.

I wonder if this includes nasty binary blobs like the PowerVR libraries. The userspace may be open but what about at the lower, hardware-bound levels?

HangLoose | # 235 | 2010-02-15, 18:13 | Report

Hey Nokia, here is my contribution...
Now you can give me MeeGo free in the N900 pretty please?!

Code:

osName = "Maemo"
stepXOfFive = 1

while stepXOfFive <= 5:
    if stepXOfFive <= 4:
            print "%s step %d of 5" % (osName,stepXOfFive)
            stepXOfFive += 1
    else:
            osName = get_weird_random_name()
            stepXOfFive = 1

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antoarts | # 236 | 2010-02-15, 18:13 | Report

If MeeGo is less debian-centric, what will happen to Easy-Debian?

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HangLoose | # 237 | 2010-02-15, 18:14 | Report

Originally Posted by gemi View Post

Let's see:

In 18 months, Nokia will show the N980.5 running NoGo, the N980 is officially discontinued and unsupported (which it has been de facto for 4 months). The N980.5 will be touted as the new flagship, but its software will be unfinished and missing several crucial features, you will not be able to make phonecalls, you will not be able to listen to music, but you will be able to boot it.

etc.

Dammit... If I would be a faster coder I would have got all of those thanks for me...

v13 | # 238 | 2010-02-15, 18:15 | Report

The worst thing about the rpm transition is that most probably the system will no longer be based on Debian. This means that it will loose all benefits of Debian-derived distributions like that clear distinction of /etc and /usr, which IMO is bad news.

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NvyUs | # 239 | 2010-02-15, 18:16 | Report

moblin.org as already stated they will migrate to the new Meego.org site so its safe to bet that maemo.org will be closed and migrated also
http://moblin.org/community/blogs/im.../welcome-meego

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Forphucsake | # 240 | 2010-02-15, 18:16 | Report

To pull a quote from engadget...

Originally Posted by

We don't know many details, but he project seems to be pulling people from both Intel's Moblin initiative and Nokia's Maemo project, and job postings from a "major handset company" searching for a GUI designer in either Dallas or San Jose have appeared, so it sounds like something big is in the works.

AND that was from an article 15th May 09 about an intel/nokia project.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/n...one-os-called/

So this has been going for a while or eventuated from that one?

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