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With sadness we note that this will probably be the last release of a doomed (Microsoft killed) project.

...because open source projects never make any releases, do they?

With sadness we note that this will probably be the last release of a doomed (Microsoft killed) project.

The Nokia N8 supports 3G on both AT&T and T-Mobile: http://thenokiablog.com/2010/10/01/nokia-n8-3g-speed-test

See this article, which tested, and confirmed, the new Nokia N8's support for high-speed data on both major GSM carriers in the US: http://thenokiablog.com/2010/10/01/nokia-n8-3g-speed-test/

Oh please. Apple's own engineers warned Jobs of the issue right from the earliest design meetings, but were overruled. When users -shock- began complaining soon after launch, Jobs personally dismissed the "non-issue", telling them to "avoid holding it in that way."

Even when Apple *finally* accepted there was a problem at the 16 July press conference (only after a damning confirmation of the issue from Consumer Reports), there was no "mea cupla". They claimed the problem was common to all internal antenna phones, something which competitors and reviewers were quick to dispute, but they would begrudgingly issue free cases as a band-aid fix.

It never ceases to amaze me the infinite reserve of benefit-of-doubt that Apple commands from its fans! :]

first they piss of their maemo community with the maemo5/n900 partial incompatibility with older versions. Then they shoot the n900 in the back with no upgrade path to meego (and the handset ux not having a n900 image for devs from day one just rubs it in more).

WTF are you talking about? There are test builds with phone UI of MeeGo for N900. (Kind of hard to read through the "JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off." layer over the page. Make many stupid assumptions, Nokia? When I see that kind of shit I think "amateur hour".

You wrote: "The only fix for Nokia now is to go Android, then the fact they make nice hardware means something again.". Nokia has been well known for making good quality phones, but this is not the reality any more. Hasn't been for past 2-3 years. Flagship product N97 had so many flaws you can not even list them here. Do a google search. N900's hardware has been a nightmare! Just browse talk.maemo.org and you will see why if you are not aware already. Nokia phones used to be good quality phones some 2-3 years ago, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case any more.

i have said it before and i'll say it again

the N900 is a sweet smartphone.. i LOVE mine.

Nokia were VERY up front when they released it saying that maemo was "stage 4 of 5" and that it wasn't a phone that was for everyone. it was very much a niche of a niche phone.

the ovi store to be quite frank ISN'T where you get yer apps.. you get them direct to your phone from repositories. these can be accessed simply by adding them to your phone settings

check here for the settings

also you will find that maemo on the N900 is soon to undergo a change in that it will be going MeeGo - in a sense.

it's still going to have the debian based maemo under the bonnet and then the Meego UI.

Full on MeeGo is Fedora under the bonnet

how many of the people currently slagging off the N900 have actually had hands on experience with it? not too many i would hazard a guess

I've read the new Nokia post as well now, and the guy not only wrote a lot of crap "haha Nokia you can't get me etc" on the net, but on top of that he's working for Samsung and gives away the Nokia prototypes there. (it's all in the comments here http://thenokiablog.com/2010/07/07/nokia-n8-property-eldar-murtazin/ )

Quite of a bad guy actually :P

I’m sorry, but not only does the N900 run Quake 3 (and very smoothly). No, it also runs Windows 95 and MacOS X!

But I haven’t seen news for this on /.

Funny that this could never ever happen with iPhone (locked down), so we’re at least safe from that. ;)

FYI, Nokia has a N810 successor planned with OMAP3 and HSPA, probably out by Q4.

No, this is legit, it's coming from the London GoPlay launch event. There's a pic of it from a live blog here.

YouTube or Flash Works Fine on the Nokia N95

No extra charge, just pay for your usual data plan. N95 is a GSM phone. Other Symbian-based phones coming out should have same capability too.