The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
Posted Jul 1, 2010 16:59 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)In reply to: The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release by csamuel
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but i am also a realist. if you want to blunt the orwellian future of iphoneOS, which is frankly set to become the windows of the next twenty years, you need something realistic that people can use now. meego doesn't have a phone or a carrier. android can be used now and doesn't require users to slum it with ghetto phones or carriers.
Posted Jul 1, 2010 19:01 UTC (Thu)
by jdave23 (guest, #27160)
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Posted Jul 4, 2010 17:10 UTC (Sun)
by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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Posted Jul 1, 2010 20:15 UTC (Thu)
by sumC (guest, #1262)
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Nokia's intentions with MeeGo is to only use them on its high-end devices. Carrier subsidies are important but mostly in the USA. In Europe and I think the rest of the world most phones are sold unsubsidized, since it's cheaper in the long run.
Posted Jul 5, 2010 14:46 UTC (Mon)
by trasz (guest, #45786)
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Posted Jul 2, 2010 7:57 UTC (Fri)
by jku (subscriber, #42379)
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You keep mentioning these doomsday scenarios where no-one is building phones on MeeGo when Nokia has explicitly said they will. In fact they've recently stated that N8 will be the last Symbian based N-series phones.
Regarding the carrier mess: Carriers are an issue for Nokia in the States but that doesn't seem to be related to the operating system... you will have to explain why the carriers would be more willing to accept Nokias terms on other OSes than they are with Symbian/Maemo/MeeGo if you want to make a point out of that.
The important thing, comparing the user experience with the competition, will of course have to wait until there are products out but your baseless talk at this point makes me think maybe it was you who shorted NOK :)
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Posted Jul 2, 2010 12:42 UTC (Fri)
by jku (subscriber, #42379)
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The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release
Actually, it seems the status of Symbian is not as gloomy as I thought: just a couple of days ago Nokia PR director explicitly said Symbian won't be used anymore on N series but then today Vanjoki wrote that Symbian 4 is a possibility.
The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release