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Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Ricky Cadden — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:34:54 -0000

I agree that, moving forward, MeeGo will probably be able to do much more than Maemo ever would have. It's a better name for marketing purposes, too, imo. I'm just tired of trying to keep up with it. Quite honestly, I think the N900 really killed the whole thing for me - it wants to be a phone, but yet has incredibly limited one-hand functionality and misses alot of functionality that a phone should have. I realize it's *not* a phone (I used one for months), but if it's got a SIM card slot, it needs to have at least SOME phone-type features, including one-handed text input, among others.

In any case, I'll still keep up with it, and likely comment periodically on my personal blog, but there's no way I can try to keep up with all this on a dedicated blog. I don't have the time, I don't care, and they change too freakin much for anything, IMO.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Tom Waelti — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:58:58 -0000

Whiner, clueless, superficial or daydreamer? :-)
IMHO, MeeGo rocks. If you think about it, it all makes perfect sense:
Maemo might well have been the project name for the 5 step evolution of this undertaking inside Nokia. With Maemo 6 / Harmattan and their respective devices, we will achieve step 5/5, meaning than the project has reached it's final step. Wouldn't that be the perfect moment to go from project to product whit all that is associated with it (like marketing, branding? :-)
OTOH, technically, it is a marriage in heaven. Finally, all elements of the stack have arrived at a stage where they can offer a mid- to longterm roadmap in a settled licencing environment. Steps 1-4 have been experiments, iterative development, prototyping. Step 5 finally solidifies everything. Only this will allow the commitment you mention (or would you prefer to be left in outdated stack components just because of backwards compatibility? In a huge mature market like Windows, this might make sense after 15 years. But not in the rapidly evolving small, splitted Linux world of the last few years).
And for marketing momentum and brand awareness, the joint announcement on Monday probably made a bigger impact than everything else Maemo-related ever did over all these years.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Oli Warner — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:47:04 -0000

And just as with the desktop, the best, most polished games come from closed source. Yes these are *some* good FOSS games but they don't come out in the same nearly quantity.

My point is Nokia seem to be eroding the devlopment platform. They need to do more to show developers a solid platform that spans all Nokia's OSes.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

pupnik — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:46:20 -0000

I'm happy to see one less useless blogger.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Ricky Cadden — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:38:27 -0000

Dan,

I'll still comment here and there - I have my own personal site, RickyCadden.com, that's for...whatever I want to write about. I won't be maintaining a dedicated site to Maemo/MeeGo/whateverisnext, but as mentioned, will keep an eye on it somewhat.

I just think they've handled the ITs incredibly poorly, and this was enough to push me to ditch the whole effort.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Ethan Hunt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:50:34 -0000

Kind of on the same wave length as you Ricky... enough allready Nokia. Stop fucking around. You only have SO much goodwill. Worst of all, I played around with a SE X10 today and with FBREADER it is truly taking over where the N810 left off.... Nokia, if you dont start respecting your fanbase they will stop respecting you...

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

three3 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:16:34 -0000

Rick,

since I come from Openmoko, I surwived quite a few community splits. Not all, I left when hope for the early vision "free smartphone" vanished in quality problems, everyone had his own distro for quite some time. I Don't want to see the same thing happening here. I concentrate on the good news the merger brings, and hope you come back at some time because your input is important.

Dan

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Alex Stansfield — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:45:49 -0000

Regarding Nokia's commitments, anyone writing QT apps for N900 will find they work on MeeGo just like it would be with Maemo 6. As for the N900 being incompatible, no one ever promised me Maemo 6 for my N900 so what's changed? As Andrew Flegg pointed out, the more open nature of MeeGo makes it more likely if anything.

When I bought this phone I knew it was a work in progress the aim of which was for Nokia to produce a successful linux based open mobile platform. I supported this ideal and so bought the phone even though it was less polished than other offerings.

When the news first hit yesterday my initial thought was "I wonder what android will be like by the time I want to upgrade" but today I feel much better about the move and look forward to seeing how it turns out. Having Intel involved and, by the sounds of it, a bunch of other device makers making devices can only be a good thing in my opinion.

Anyway, enjoy the next step of your journey where ever it may lead you. Ciao

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Ungoliant — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:45:07 -0000

>If Nokia carries on like this, there's never going to be a decent amount of saleable software >that users of other smartphone platforms enjoy.

I don't see the need of it. The Maemo makes a difference allowing you can get free ( as in freedom ) software into your mobile phone, as you would do with your PC.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Oli Warner — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:41:42 -0000

I'm happy with my N900. They can change the OS name as much as they like at the moment. It's nowhere near a mainstream brand and the tech people they managed to indoctrinate for the N900 (*waves*) will, I think, cope with the rebrand.

However, I am concerned about two things:
- Will the N900 upgrade? I'm sure there'll be a new handset that will make me want to upgrade for new hardware, probably making this moot but I'd like to stay at the forefront for as long as I can on my N900 hardware.
- What is this going to do to the paid-apps economy? Ha! The only paid app I've seen on the store was the levels for Angry Birds and they blew that so hard (they just put the paid-for levels in the repository - anybody could download it with apt-get). Will developers not write anything for Maemo 5 because they know Maemo 6/MeeGo are coming out?

If Nokia carries on like this, there's never going to be a decent amount of saleable software that users of other smartphone platforms enjoy.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Andre — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:55:15 -0000

sorry to see you go. i understand your choice and your frustration.

here is a slightly different perspective:

i am new to maemo. i bought the USD 550.00 device and could not be more happy with it.(as a end user not a developer - i do not develop)

if my USD 550.00 device does not receive meGoo so what...? It is still an awesome device and will not die over night.

If the new meGoo device from Nokia, from LG or from whoever fits my needs better then my n900 i will just sell it and move on.

The great thing for me as a consumer is that now I have choice.

I don't like Google
I don't like Apple

Now I can go to any Harware Manufacturer that produces phones with MeeGo - trust me there will be multiple - and buy a cool MeeGo device I am no longer bound only to Nokia. Exiting times will probably start in about 18 months until then I will be happy surfing along with my shiny n900

Re: How To: Really Stream Last.FM With Vagalume On N900

sunny — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:50:08 -0000

how to do this 4th step>> . Edit the LastFM.xml and replace the ADDKEYHERE and ADDSECRETKEYHERE with your API Key and API Secret Key.

can u explain it to me plz- thank u

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Braddie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:37 -0000

You're not the only one. I am SICK AND TIRED of Nokia and how absolutely clueless they seem.
I hope they go out of business. They deserve to.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

gyzar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:26:54 -0000

"To Nokia – make a freakin commitment. Commit to the developers who are constantly having to rewrite their apps every time you release a device. Commit to the consumers who are trying to get excited about purchasing a $500+ device that’s going to be incompatible with the next version. Commit to not make each device incompatible with the next version of your platform. Commit to developing the product line beyond ‘ooooh, shiny’ with each release."

however - i couldn't agree more ...

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

gyzar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:25:03 -0000

on meego homepage there's and image of n900, isn't it?

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Andrew Flegg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:15:50 -0000

Isn't this exit very similar to the one back when you left last time? http://www.maemo-guru.com/2...

Back then you said "the platform itself is in need of some serious attention". Nokia *and* Intel are now collaborating on the platform, there's a cross-platform development kit and IDE (in the form of Qt (Creator)).

If anything, the move to an open source OS *separate* from Nokia *increases* the chances of having MeeGo on the N900.

Re: With MeeGo, I Go

Jon Farquharson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:07:50 -0000

If the N900 can run Windows, Ubuntu etc etc etc...we've all seen the video's, surely it'll run Meego...?

Jon.

Re: How Would You Use The N900 In Portrait Mode?

rezatt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:26:00 -0000

You are amazing!!!! You know how to keep some one shut!!!!!!

Re: How Would You Use The N900 In Portrait Mode?

GB — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:40:02 -0000

get portrait now using two hands all the time is unacceptable !!

Re: Nokia N900 Keyboard Shortcuts Galore

Andy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:02:26 -0000

Ctrl+Shift-O ('oh' not zero)

Enables portrait mode browsing in web browser.

execute the shortcut, close keyboard, and turn the earpiece up.

Re: Hermes Syncs Your N900 Contacts With Twitter And Facebook

alexanders76 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:24:18 -0000

Cool this I want and please add LinkedIn!

Re: New Twitter Plugin Integrates With The N900 Phonebook

John G — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:40:48 -0000

Witter has pretty full functionality but having just come across and tried it, Oh My God what a scary UI!

Gravity on symbian is a great example of great UI. Not too many buttons taking up space or confusing the user. It only presents them to the user when you focus (open) the options for a tweet.

Re: Nokia Uses N900s For Pole-Dancing Robots

Lark — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:47:44 -0000

This is hilarious. But the robots must surely be more expensive than the 10k prize...

Re: The Nokia N900 Is Not A Phone

Ritta — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:10:57 -0000

hii, I've just recently got my N900 and so happy with it.. it's amazing and I love the features and everything.. but I've had some difficulty calling and checking my Voicemail.. maybe there's a special feature or something to activate to make the voicemail active... but I don't know how to use it and I can't check my voicemail messages by just normally calling the voicemail..

can anybody help me with that please

also one more thing to address here... it could be me cause I haven't fully discovered everything in the phone but it seems like there's no place where you can go and check my stored files or documents
I figured one way to do it.. it will sound retarded for a suphisticated device like N900 which is only when I wanna change the ringing tone I can have access to something called Nokia N900 and in that folder I can brows the other folders.. I'm sure there's another way to get to that but I haven't discovered it yet.

Re: How To: Really Stream Last.FM With Vagalume On N900

Maemo Fan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:22:39 -0000

Thanks for the steps! keep it up!