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Nokia has spoken out to stress its commitment to the beleaguered smartphone OS.
"smartphone OS"? Really? Does anyone beyond Nokia believe that?
Its been said by many people, Nokia should stick to making hardware and give up on software. Its a new age and symbian is history.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
Well symbian just got 200mil from the EU to keep afloat and seems as Nokia has also had money from the same source i would suspect they have more to lose then gain. I have never really had any problems from symbian it seems very stable and nokia seem to use it well, it just needs to get with the times a little.
doubt youll think that when mee-go is outQuote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
Indeed. Maemo, and now Meego are outstanding Operating Systems. About the only thing Maemo lacked was a concerted effort from Nokia to push for its adoption, partially because they keep wasting effort trying to resurrect Symbian, leaving customers confused, and Nokia appearing directionless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cozwin
the new ceo seems very pro meego i would suspect we will see it in product next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
Fingers crossed. In the meantime I'm eyeing up an N900.
Appearing?Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
N900 does not have the hardware power to compete with the likes of the desire Z, Desire HD or Samsung Galaxy S.
I looked at the N900 10 months ago and decided to stick with a E71 because there were too many reports of hardware and software issues.
Problem for Nokia is getting apps for what ever OS they decide to run with. The latest smart phones from apple and android have over 100,000 apps each to choose. Ok most of these are rubbish, but choice is what people want...
The average consumer wouldn't care if Nokia had the next best thing since slice bread but no software support.
Another thing is - is there room for another mobile os for developers to developer for. Making games and apps for 5 os's (ios, Windows, android, RIM and Nokia) would not happen. Developers will stick to the biggest and popular ones.
Am I the only one who reads the headline and just thinks "not slow enough".
There are certain things which the sooner they die, the better. Pre NT Windows (can you imagine if the net was full of them now?! Russian Mafia would control the interwebbles), Any mouse designed by Apple, Gordon Browns prudence...........
Symbian had its place, it was always a pig of an OS, a bugger to code for (in comparison to CE) and ultimately not that stable. The only thing missed will be how it handled SMS delivery reports.
It doesn't need a 1.6GHz dual core beast burning a hole in your pocket because it doesn't waste countless cycles having to deal with the overhead and general sloppiness of Java. Most of the time the Cortex A8 will idle at 250MHz, a soft limit which the user can override. The A8 is also designed to scale up to 1GHz, the N900 is soft-locked to only scale up to 600MHz because a) it rarely needs more than that, and b) to conserve the battery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
I know a few people who own it and they've not had any issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
The selection is still vast and covers just about everything you'd want to do with a phone, and for me, I can write and install whatever programme I want, without having to bend over for either Apple or Google. Maemo apps aren't trivial to programme, either, which means anyone who's written one will generally know what they're doing. Or if they don't, they certainly will by the time they reach 1.0 of their app. It's basically natural selection for software.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
That's a bit of a stretch. Nokia still maintain Maemo, and are busy polishing off Meego, and the N900 is basically it's flagship base of development.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
There's always more room for competition. Nor do I particular care if the latest and greatest in absolutely pointless apps don't get ported to it. Ultimately, because Maemo/Meego is basically a Linux distro, with some UI pretty on top, it's going to receive more loving from F/OSS developers, either directly, or indirectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
The N900/Maemo/Meego isn't for everyone, but it's more attractive for me than the other options. But as someone who sees a good quality terminal as a godsend, rather than an 'outdated curse', I can see why the majority of people aren't more interested in it.
As a long time symbian user whos jumped ship to Android - I can only say I won't go back.
Also the only way I can see meego taking off in large numbers is to either:
1) Make porting Android/iOS apps easily (maybe even an android WINE equivalent so Android apps just work).
2) Make it damn easy to (quickly) develop for it - Android is a good case in point - When I first looked at it, it had horrible tools - they are now far better (but still not perfect) so I've actually started looking at producing my first app. I wouldn't however touch iOS as its objective-C and requires a Mac to develop.
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Originally Posted by aidanjt
I've had one for several months now and I can't say I've had any real issues. With the recent firmware update it seems better than ever. It's very responsive, better battery life than before and can now easily boot meego. Best phone on the market imo :)