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Nokia Trades Symbian For MeeGo In N-Series Smartphones
An anonymous reader writes "Nokia announced that moving forward, MeeGo would be the default operating system in the N series of smartphones (original Reuters report). Symbian will still be used in low-end devices from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The move to MeeGo is a demonstration of support for the open source mobile OS, but considering the handset user experience hasn't been rolled out and likely won't be rolled out in time for its vague June deadline outlined at MeeGo.com, could the decision be premature?"
And that's coming from someone who's been a steady Nokia customer since the late 90's.
It's never a good idea to get attached to any tech company. Things change fast and you might miss out on something great for no good reason
The question is- why do you need that stuff on a phone? Being unpolished, incompetent and difficult to use isn't cool. It just shows well.. incompetence. There is no app store because the developers know this phone environment is not worth their time.
There's no app store because it's a new platform. This will in all probability change when Symbian becomes mid-range and Meego becomes top-range and both use QT for the GUI.
It's unpolished because it's a new platform yet the nerds still wanted to beta test it in their thousands and the platform was later tidied up for mass consumption. I assume we've forgotten Android 1.0?
Android 1.0 failed cause it was not good. Just like the N900.
Sounds like a lot of excuses on the behalf of a product that doesn't cut it. Just cause root is unlocked doesn't make the product great.
Your point about specialized phones would be valid if nokia had some other mass market maemo devices (in addition to N900), which it does not.
BTW, the n900 has sold far from 1 mil, more like 100,000. Even the geeks have jailbroken iPhones and Android phones- why? Cause they're better, more complete products with a thriving eco system around them.
yep, that's what I was telling the other guy too. Nokia used to be great, ever since the iphone was launched, (and later android) they have been overtaken by practically everyone else.
It's a multitool, and something I've waited to have happen since the N770 (which I have as well).
It has EDGE, 3G(T-mobile-friendly bands), 802.11b/g, IR, plenty of storage and it's open.
The only missing part is that Nokia really hates Perl, loves Python, or both.
Well, Perl really is kind of a relic. The effort involved (how many operators does perl have, again? how many different implicit variables, conversions and other stuff you just have to know to be able to understand any code?) just isn't worth it. And if you learn Perl well anyway, your "reward" is being able to write code even you yourself can't decipher after a while without serious research. And if you're not going to learn it well, why waste time on it at all, instead of spending it to learn well something more sensible. And if you're only going to write readable and maintainable code, why not do it using some language that is designed for that from ground up?