Hi steve,
Thanks for your true facts. :) Agreed to all. :) :) On 29 November 2010 12:33, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Manoj, > > > On 11/29/2010 10:15 AM, Manoj Kumar wrote: > >> Hi friends, >> >> I have a fantastic smartphone ever from nokia which runs fortunately on >> linux kernel. >> Nokia N900. It runs on Maemo os, the bestEST competent for Android, >> > > Congratulations on getting the N900 ! It really is a nice phone with a cool > platform. > > Now that said, I'm really sorry to be the person to bring you some bad news > -- Although MeeGo is supposed to be the successor for Maemo, it is a > /totally/ different platform. MeeGo is a ground up redesign of the best > ideas of Maemo and Mobilin. As such, Maemo is not 'upgradable' to MeeGo. > Worse still, the N900 will never see an official Meego release from Nokia > (or rather the Meego project, which is part of the Linux Foundation). The > good news though is there is a community effort to port Meego to the > N900[1]. > > disclaimer: Biased opinions follow. Though there isn't any official support from nokia for maemo to meego upgrade, there is an appreciable support from meego community and already the MeeGo v1.0 for n900 and netbooks are out.. The other best thing that i'd like to add to your point>"The good news though is there is a community effort to port Meego to the N900[1].",>there is also a risky way to port android on n900. i also guess there is a project of the name NITDroid. :) Cheers on that. :) :) > > though, >> i don't find a lot many developers on this platform.. >> >> > Then you haven't really looked at the right place :). Maemo has been around > since 2005 (since Nokia's 770 Internet tablet) and has a very large > developer community. The main place for finding information, applications > and developers for maemo is at: > > http://maemo.org/ > > > Sorry steve, I'd rephrase my statement here-I don't find as many developers as we see for iOS or android. > >> I invite some tech wizards and geeks to join this adventure and get their >> hands dirty on maemo. >> >> > I would rather recommend switching to Meego instead. Considering the fact > that there is no corporate push behind Maemo anymore (which is, IMHO, fairly > important in the handheld device market -- but then again, I could be proved > wrong in the years to come). > > As you say,there is no corporate push behind maemo or there is never going to be any too.. I hear of some gossips saying that nokia is supposedly to draw its support for maemo after it releases n9 with meego on it. When it becomes true, MeeGo shud be the real go. > MeeGo which is the next supposed version of Maemo comes from the world's >> two >> biggest rivals in microprocessor technologies, Intel with the support of >> AMD. And from the smartphone giant Nokia. >> >> > As of right now tho', working on Meego is a bit painful (as compared to > Android) given the fact that there isn't any clear roadmap or even a real > world reference design for Meego. Nokia & Intel are being extremely > lethargic in getting Meego ready for prime time (especially at a time when > Android seems to be sweeping its way through the market to become the > platform of choice). > > IMHO, Meego is much more cleaner and 'open' than Android but might not make > it simply because it is slow to move. > > IMHO,the real drive behind android against any of its competitors is the name google first of all and its better interface than others. I hope this is infact achieved at Meego. But there is still not a welcome for Nokia's stand against Andriod which may yet more make meego slow to pick up. All of these still may surely be faked,if MeeGo meets 'our' needs. > cheers, > - steve > > [1] http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900 > > -- > random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ > what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ > Thanks, cheers, Manoj _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
