Well, we knew already about Harmattan-MeeGo. If you want to call that PR 2.0 / Maemo 6 you can, but at the end of the day for the N900 users its still useless because community-Harmattan-MeeGo for the N900 will be stripped down so no phone, no Skype, no Flash. Could it be retrofitted? Maybe, but I guess it all depends on who sticks around until then. If Nokia decides to spend the effort to get PR 2.0 on the N900 I'd be ecstatic. Not holding my breath though. They've made no indication that that will happen.
It's vanilla Meego that's stripped down (IE no proprietery software but it already has working phone support). Not Harmattan-Meego (which the N900 isn't getting anyway). What will happen is the community will be responsible for any backporting of parts in Harmattan-Meego to Vanilla Meego. Like Flash, Skype, etc..
Calls in NITDroid are working (the actual sound in the call is being worked on) and I believe a member on the MeeGo forum (he is also a member here) made calls on MeeGo for N900.
I think they work but the microphone and handset speaker don't work.
It was made clear that the Harmattan "Hackers Edition"/community edition would have the closed bits working and included. Meaning Skype, Flash 10.1, Maps, etc etc, all working. With all the tmo FUD threads, it isn't hard to miss this, so I won't blame you all =P
Still, that won't be available until the Harmattan SDK beta releases, so MeeGo handset reference UX should get our focus.
I wouldn't make that a statement of fact. It's dependent on the community to backport the closed bits. So it's up to whatever's left of the developmental community, and from what I've seen we've already lost a few good ones.
It's vanilla Meego that's stripped down (IE no proprietery software but it already has working phone support). Not Harmattan-Meego (which the N900 isn't getting anyway). What will happen is the community will be responsible for any backporting of parts in Harmattan-Meego to Vanilla Meego. Like Flash, Skype, etc..
Aw crap that blows....
I thought there'd be some version of harmatten-meego available to n900 owners.
So it depends entirely on the resources of vanilla meego & whether there's the desire/impetus to back-port the closed bits of harmatten to it?
I'm guessing that's quite a long-shot?!
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I wouldn't make that a statement of fact. It's dependent on the community to backport the closed bits. So it's up to whatever's left of the developmental community, and from what I've seen we've already lost a few good ones.
Sigh, oh well, guess I'll have to jump ship to N9.
Not an entirely bad thing
@jalyst, its not all a bad thing indeed. the only problem is people like you that keep buying new phones evertime nokia says we are not gonna support it on this one but will on the next phone. Will give nokia the feeling they can **** on us and never have to support anything.
Nokia: "Oh well people will buy the next phone we dont have to support it on this one.."
Its time nokia IS going to support some stuff on the n900, not always put it on the next phone. Allot of people on my n900 forum including me are fed up with nokia's attitude. most of them allready bought other brands.
So it depends entirely on the resources of vanilla meego & whether there's the desire/impetus to back-port the closed bits of harmatten to it?
I'm guessing that's quite a long-shot?!
I mean what are the chances of a solid non-official community around it.
I'm guessing quite slim...
