David,
your "pain" is that of the proverbial pioneer in the old West (US) that
ends up with a few arrows in his/her back. Similar in concept to the
"pain" the people are feeling who paid 2X for HDTV's a year ago that
were of less resolution/quality/size than the ones available today for
1/2x the price.
As I see it, with respect to product support, Nokia is finding its way
in this product category, Internet Tablet Computers, which are
positioned somewhere between a smart mobile phone and a full fledged
server but priced more like a smart mobile phone.
It could be worse. As far as I know, for the Windows Mobile OS, there
are no patch releases, and, it seems, at most one feature pack upgrade
per major release (e.g. 2003=>2003 SE, 5.0=>5.0+feature pack whatever,
etc.). Not only that, because of the vice-grip that the hand-set supply
chain (manufacturer=>distributor=>mobile service provider) has on the
product, it may not even be possible for a given end user to get a
Windows Mobile feature pack, because someone in that chain is not
supporting it on the specific handset/mobile service provider combo in
question.
In comparison, what Nokia has done is a step forward in my opinion,
although Microsoft, of course is no paragon of perfection when it comes
to product support. I do think Nokia could mitigate this hw
obsolescence problem for some customers, by having a very generous
trade-in price to go from the 770 to the N800. In fact, from a marketing
perspective this could make a lot of sense for a new product category
like the Internet Tablet. That way Nokia would not have to leave its
pioneering customers for dead on the "great plains" of product innovation.
!
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
Acadia Secure Networks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
>Is there any chance to have a community maintained release? If
>I remember correctly some drivers are missing to get there,
>any chance to get the open sourced?
>From a Nokia 770 customer point of view, any solution around this
device
needs to come sooner than later, since devices get old quite fast
nowadays.
Absolutely right.
From a Nokia Corporation perspective open sourcing components
might be a slow process even if all the parties involved have a clear
and common wish opening a specific source code. If we are talking about
hardware drivers, the process might be *really* slow. Therefore, there
are little chances that the solution for 770 customers comes from Nokia
opensourcing components, really.
Understood.
The current hacker edition looks like the best candidate to become a
more continued solution. Some people here have got a deep look at it.
What do you think?
No, that's totally bogus: a binary-only distro that's supported by a
community which doesn't have access to the source? Give me a break.
Instead, how about Nokia get every bit of source used to build the
last IT 2006 release which it has permission (both internal and
external) to release in source form together in _one_ _repository_ and
then let the community maintain that.
It would end up being a sort of fork, and we'd need some help from
Nokia to understand what proprietary components we'd need to replace
(even if it's just in the form of hints like Igor's about power
management that I posted a while ago) though obviously real
documentation would be much better. Additionally, keeping it
compatible with N800 OS releases would be challenging to say the least
(maybe Nokia employees could help w/ that little bit, like backporting
fixes to bugs in the public source).
Anything else, from both a end-user and a non-Nokia developer
perspective, IMO, is just crap.
I mean come on, there are now users of $450 one-and-a-half year old
devices out there (which didn't work well at all for 1/3rd of that
time even for basic stuff) that are now being told they also won't get
"official" fixes for KNOWN BUGS, ever.
Give me a break.
Dave
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