if n900 can run meego so why to buy the n950?

[Mentalist Traceur]

The title of this thread hits upon why businesses don't usually care about giving you software freedom on your hardware, especially with phones.

But on the other hand, Nokia would naturally bundle other stuff on top of the hypothetical-N950 (was there ever an official end to the N9 btw? Or did the rumors of that just fade and rumors of N950 came instead?), which could potentially be worth the upgrade. (But at the same time, one of my computers still runs Windows XP - there's nothing wrong with skipping upgrade iterations - that doesn't mean that there's no point to buy the hypothetical-N950 if you never had an N900 but were sitting on an even older phone until then. One can hope that as phones get better people will realize they don't need to upgrade every generation. Everything you use still runs fine a couple of years down the line, even if there's stuff that's technically better.

Also, keep in mind, as far as we know the N900 successor is NOT MeeGo, but is Maemo 6 renamed to MeeGo for branding purposes. It wouldn't be running true MeeGo. And even if it was there'd be a good chance that the official Nokia implementation on better hardware would run smoother/better than on the N900.

[kingoddball]

Everyone want a unicorn....

[anandv76]

N950 would be launched next week, Meego would run on N900 and pigs would start flying too!

[zifis]

Originally Posted by anandv76

and pigs would start flying too!

No worries we'll shoot a few angry birds at them and bring them down :P

[xenkof]

Well, Elop has stated once again that a MeeGo Device is coming this year and it's NOT going to be a tablet.
This was said in a MeeGo meeting with HTC, LG and other handset makers, as he was trying to sell them on the MeeGo platform. So far only LG has jumbed on and is actually going to release a MeeGo device this year (probably sooner that Nokia).

[stickymick]

Originally Posted by xenkof

Well, Elop has stated once again that a MeeGo Device is coming this year and it's NOT going to be a tablet.
This was said in a MeeGo meeting with HTC, LG and other handset makers, as he was trying to sell them on the MeeGo platform. So far only LG has jumbed on and is actually going to release a MeeGo device this year (probably sooner that Nokia).

A few points to raise;

Did he specifically state it would be a Nokia device?

Which means he could be talking about the HTC device

I didn't think MeeGo was his to sell. It's a consortium of software and hardware developers, so I'd hazard a guess that he was trying to sell Nokia's stake.

I'll certainly take a look at any MeeGo devices that appear, in the interests of an upgrade, but if they've got network cr@p installed and restrictions like bits of the software ripped out that they don't want their customers to use, then they're staying on the shelf.

[pelago]

Originally Posted by xenkof

Well, Elop has stated once again that a MeeGo Device is coming this year and it's NOT going to be a tablet.
This was said in a MeeGo meeting with HTC, LG and other handset makers, as he was trying to sell them on the MeeGo platform.

Source, please?

[droitwichgas]

Unless Elop goes back on his word it seems likely we will get a N950 , after all why have a N900 Meego DE Team of 20 plus people working on the os if it is not going to lead to a N950 being released?

However the N900 Meego o/s will be for power users/developers not end users which I assume the N950 will be aim at if it is released?

Like any new Android/IOS phone it will also be an update on the previous hardware with an better processor etc.

One interesting point raised here is what form of Meego the LG devices will run, will it be Meamo 6 like the N950 or full blown Meego os?

[Khertan]

Originally Posted by xenkof

Well, Elop has stated once again that a MeeGo Device is coming this year and it's NOT going to be a tablet.
This was said in a MeeGo meeting with HTC, LG and other handset makers, as he was trying to sell them on the MeeGo platform. So far only LG has jumbed on and is actually going to release a MeeGo device this year (probably sooner that Nokia).

He didn't say too that it s will be a phone. It s could be a router device. Or a media center small pc, or a netbook with meego netbook ux.

To resume he said : blablabla blabla blablabla blabla Microsoft !! Blabla blablablabla bla blablabla ecosystem ... blablabla blabla blablablabla blabla Fire 4000 people ... blabla blablabla Accenture will kill Symbian for us ... blabla blablabla blabla and fire other 3000 people ... blabla blabla blabla bla balblablabla bla

[droitwichgas]

Originally Posted by Khertan

He didn't say too that it s will be a phone. It s could be a router device. Or a media center small pc, or a netbook with meego netbook ux.

To resume he said : blablabla blabla blablabla blabla Microsoft !! Blabla blablablabla bla blablabla ecosystem ... blablabla blabla blablablabla blabla Fire 4000 people ... blabla blablabla Accenture will kill Symbian for us ... blabla blablabla blabla and fire other 3000 people ... blabla blabla blabla bla balblablabla bla

Eldar's latest tweet apparently says Nokia are only planning on selling 92,000 N950's so it doesn't sound like many of us will be buying them in any event if he can be belived!