Why on earth would you run Maemo on some NIT clone(obviously what it is) when you can migrate to a full blown Debian install(wow deja vu) or maybe something smarter? o_O
Because Maemo has the best, most integrated, and consistent GUI of any form of Gnu/Linux/X available?
I'd certainly rather use Maemo than any other dist. Especially on a tablet, but even on a desktop. I like Ubuntu, but, really, a desktop version of Maemo would blow Ubuntu out of the water.
Is Windows Mobile that bad?
Is't there a wealth of apps for it?
This device looks quite good, can't see why so many negative posts
Your first question answered itself. It's _windows_. Windows Mobile has less baggage than real/desktop Windows, but it still has many of the same issues (cultural issues, design issues, etc.).
It shouldn't surprise you that people who are on a NIT oriented forum are partially here to escape the WinCE/WinMO environment, and thus largely dismiss or reject WinCE-only and/or WinMO-only devices.
I could be wrong but I thought the reason that the N810 Wimax died, was because everyehere else except the US already has a reasonable mobile network suitable for data transfer?
The US has one. This isn't about 3G, this is about the emergence of 4G. The N810 WiMAX is basically a 4G device ... without a reasonably deployed 4G network to utilize. That's true whether you're talking about the US or Europe. The only decent deployment of WiMAX isn't even WiMAX, it's WiBro, in S. Korea.
The N810 WiMAX didn't fail because the US didn't have good enough 3G coverage, it failed because the WORLD wasn't ready for 4G, so a 4G device was incredibly premature. An N810 GSM/WCDMA device would probably have done a TON better (in the US and Europe) than the N810 WiMAX did.
The reason why this device will probably be OK is that a) it'll probably work just fine in Samsung's home country (S. Korea), and by the time it reaches the US, there will probably be a more solid WiMAX deployment to sell it into. And the WiMAX provider here will probably show it more love, since it's a WinMO device, as well.
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when they can make do with the current roll outs and investments?
(I know there is one place in the UK with wimax, but the big roll out that was supposed to happen, just didn't)
In which case there is little point in having wimax?
The issue isn't "GSM vs WiMAX", and whether or not current investments are good enough. It's about the 4G protocol war (WiMAX vs LTE). The lack of adoption of WiMAX in the EU didn't happen because "we're good with WCDMA/UMTS". It happened because LTE became the direction everyone in the EU decided to go for the next generation. If everyone's deploying LTE for 4G, then WiMAX becomes a moot deployment.
(if there's one thing I give credit to the EU for, in this arena, it's that they're very consistent about this -- the US is rather schitzophrenic about it with EVDO and WCDMA, but 4G will be less so, with almost everyone going LTE over WiMAX).
Hmm, actually I'm less interested now than when I started this message: It turns out that the unit weighs 7.9 ounces, not the 5.4 ounces that Samsung erroneously advertises. But I'm still curious if it's a candidate for Mer. With a 4.3" screen and no cellphone integration, it seems, in terms of hardware, more like a successor to the Tablets than anything else out there.
