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2010-11-10 , 15:36
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The N9 is an E7 form-factor with MeeGo. The above picture is 90% finished hardware.

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2010-11-10 , 15:42
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Surely I'll buy a N9, but I think we'll have to wait a long time to get a good experienced meego product as maemo as for handsets today.

This E7 under maemo could be a very nice transition IMO.
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2010-11-10 , 16:00
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Hi people, I would like to replace my N900 by a black Nokia E7 with Maemo5 inside, what do you think guys ? could it be possible one day ?
Beyond driver and performance issues, the E7's display is only 640x360. Even if the closed source portions of Maemo 5 otherwise accept the E7's hardware, likely they will be broken by the display. The proprietary portions of Fremantle include enough hard coded assumptions about the N900's display to make system-wide portrait mode on the N900 unobtainable, after all.

I'll go a step further and hazard a guess that many of the existing apps in Extras would also dislike the reduced screen resolution of the E7. So, more breakage. More porting. More writing replacements. In the end, at best you'd wind up with a function-alike of Maemo 5 with a reduced app catalog.
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2010-11-10 , 16:08
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Hi people, I would like to replace my N900 by a black Nokia E7 with Maemo5 inside, what do you think guys ? could it be possible one day ? am I alone who have this wish ? thanks for your reply.
Please Nokia could you make that for Christmas...

Like previously said the screen is nHD and CPU is ARM11 680mhz and Broadcomm GPU. I don't think we will see Maemo inside E7 done by the community and i can already tell for certain that Nokia wont be doing it.

N9 with MeeGo-Harmattan is still partly Maemo product. Problem of course is that it's not even announced yet.
 
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2010-11-10 , 16:13
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Then i suppose that nokia couldn't make two E7 with differents 4" LCD screen, 640x360 for symbian and 800x480 for maemo ? Is it really unthinkable ?
 
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n900 has far better specs,exept the display and cam.so it would be a downgrade.
and symbian isn't open source(correct me if im wrong)so no port at all.
forget it
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Then i suppose that nokia couldn't make two E7 with differents LCD screen, 640x360 for symbian and 800x480 for maemo ? Is it really unthinkable ?
With the n9 on the way, yes.
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2010-11-10 , 16:16
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In what (hardware) way would you think the E7 is a transition (okay, Clearblack/HDMI, but other than that) ?
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n900 has far better specs,exept the display and cam.so it would be a downgrade.
and symbian isn't open source(correct me if im wrong)so no port at all.
forget it
I'll argue both points Display is lower res (clearblack notwithstanding), and cam is way below what the N900 has (I'll trade a few megapixels for focus any day). Symbian IS open source, but that won't help you in any significant way.
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2010-11-10 , 16:22
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In what (hardware) way would you think the E7 is a transition (okay, Clearblack/HDMI, but other than that) ?
for me :

better form factor, 4" screen, fantastic slide keyboard, usb on the go, thickness,...

but autofocus for apn is missing I saw.
 
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