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Posted Oct 15, 2009 13:10 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Lending by ncm
Parent article: Free N900 (KDE.News)

I got the impression that part of the reason for this lending agreement is
that a device (including the software on it) with GSM radio in it has to be
certified and given a warranty before it can be sold, and Nokia doesn't have
the final version of the software ready for that yet. What we received was
a development snapshot made a couple of days before the summit.


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Lending

Posted Oct 16, 2009 20:42 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

> What we received was a development snapshot made a couple of days before
the summit.

Not couple of days before, according to the Maemo team blog post, it was
the nightly snapshot they grabbed the previous day when leaving for the
summit:
http://maemoteam.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/amsterdam-flash...

I guess the developers need the bleeding edge, hot and fresh. :-)

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