Hmm nokia will release N9/N950 or what the heck the name will be probably in this summer. It will be powered with maemo/harmattan OS so still no official meego phone from nokia.
It look nice though...
Quim Gill supposed to introduce harmattan in San Francisco Meego conference may 23. to 25., but session were declined by authors.
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Originally posted by brent View PostMeego is a full-featured OS? It seems to have almost similar restrictions as Android...
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I lost interest when Intel and Nokia merged Moblin and Maemo. Moblin was looking pretty nice in terms of a software stack (Gtk, Clutter, etc). Then Nokia had to get involved and push their baby, Qt. In hindsight it was a sabotage.
Oh lol, how timely "Intel: Our Nokia Partnership Was a Mistake" :
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I bought into maemo years ago with the Nokia N770 and N800 tablets. I would have gotten a N900 except Nokia went and turned it into a phone . Nokia never totally committed into the open source strategy, mismanaged what they had committed and basically let apple and google catch up and walk all over them.
MeeGo look to have a lot of potential but was all for nothing once the M$ alliance thing came about. Though my next mobile device will likely be android based, I really hope they can keep development going, more competition & innovation means faster evolution and more choices for us consumers.
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Originally posted by brent View PostMeego is a full-featured OS? It seems to have almost similar restrictions as Android...
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Originally posted by matthewbpt View PostYou'd have to do some hacking to compile all the Netbook UX for ARM (that's only available for x86) and compile the kernel, adding the tegra specific drivers (I think their video drivers are binary only??). It should be doable as all meego code is open-source, would be an interesting project.
too bad but real issue still nvidia's binaries. most people orgasm and splurge their shit all over the place about divine happiness given by Nvidia when topic is software support for GPUs. but with tegra you fucked as much as if it were VIA's GPU.
you use binaries for android's 2.2 kernel (2.6.29?) and some of its userspace or you use vesa (nouveau also has 0 support for tegras). and it's not only for GPU. tegra is a name of entire board and there is some other stuff which is controlled only by obsolete binaries. and by the way, no android 3.x support either.
nice, huh ?
Originally posted by matthewbpt View PostThese guys have an awesome looking ARM netbook http://alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm I hear they've had a lot of problems with production though, so their latest devices are yet to be delivered to any customers.
give me this thing with MeeGo or Opensuse on-board, give me N900 (or better, theirs improved and updated successor-versions) with MeeGo and my tech-craving is satisfied for years to come ! and i would buy one for every family member too. hell, i would pimp it to everyone, that would be ideal picks for laptop-like and phone-like segments respectfully.
...ah, but, of course, this one is a little outdated, GPU support is questionable too, as quantity of binary components needed (how good it be with modern Free distribution like Opensuse or Ubuntu or with tuned MeeGo actually ?) and Nokia's R&D is in a middle of destruction, N900's successor, probably, cancelled and its software support is lacking (no OTG without crutches, wtf ?).
and the market is filled with useless, electricity-wasting, artificially-obsolescent-via-abandonware/blobs bullcrap in both segments ! whoopty-fucking-doo >:
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Originally posted by brent View PostWhat's so bad about Android?
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Originally posted by dfx. View Post...
too bad there is no non-tegra ARMv7 PC portables at least, none i know of.
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