http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/ Engadget Comments for Nokia: MeeGo "door is not closed" on N900 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/meego-and-the-n900-meet-blogger-irresponsibility/]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
While I'm sure that developers will make it work, just as previous "Hacker Editions" of 2008 ran on the 770, it was painful to use for all but the most hardcore user. Nokia has a horrible tradition of cutting off official support for a device far too soon, leaving owners of the expensive hardware to have to turn to community and hacker editions just to get basic new features.]]>Mar 16th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
gotta say, if someone actually listens to what cnet says, they must be used to being deceived with incorrect/biased reporting. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Been there, done that (former 7710 owner).]]>Mar 16th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Sent from my eclair G1]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
One time me and three friends dropped acid and drove around in my dad's car. He has one of those talking cars, we're tripping, and the car goes, "The door is ajar." We pulled over and thought about that for 12 hours. "How can a door be a jar?" … "Why would they put a jar on a car?" … "Oh man, the freeway's melting" … "Put it in the jar."]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Are Jaaksi(Nokia's Maemo boss) already said that whatever happens MeeGo will be running in N900 and it will get Nokia's support if it's official or not.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Adopters should no cause for complaint.]]>Mar 16th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Companies should support their products - this is the reason why I won't drop money on one of Nokia's high end phones. If I knew they would support it, I would buy an N900... I might have also purchased the N810. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
He who would trade precision for some ultra-light-touch sensitivity, deserves neither precision nor ultra-light-touch sensitivity.]]>Mar 16th 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Anyway , considering the wide range of phones Nokia has , its taken them too long to roll out a capacitive touch screen phone. My biggest gripe with nokia is symbian's lackluster interface, capacitive could help make it interesting]]>Mar 16th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Who needs capacitive touch screens? Grandma can't press hard on her screen so lets make it capacitive! WTF?? The move to capacitive touch screens in one of the reasons I'm dropping Microsoft. I like resistive touch a lot. Who wants a "touch" screen that can only be used by fingers? What happened to handwriting recognition? A hybrid would be nice, or no capacitive touch at all! Leave that for the iPhones and feature phones that apparently lack the need for precision. I will be buying an N900 to begin developing for Meego. And I won't be buying any new phones with capacicrap screens.]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/One of the best aspects of the n900 screen is being able to put your finger down on a link that is 4 pixels tall, and know for sure that you have tapped the link. That level of accuracy just doesn't come with capacitive screens.

There is a tradeoff though, because when you're doing kinetic scrolling it's a lot less smooth if you have to press down and flick up. You really can't just sweep your finger across the screen. This is impacted even more when you have a high-grip screen protector like an invisible shield. There desperately needs to be a hybrid between the two technologies, else we waste our lives arguing over apples and oranges.]]>Mar 17th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 17th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Just one thing!
Nokia please update the Maps Software!]]>Mar 16th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
I really want MeeGo on my device but if the thing does not support all the Ovi applications what good will it be? Just as a proof that MeeGo runs? I want Ovi maps, Nokia Messaging, Ovi suite and so on... I think this should be the priority for this device.

I much prefer Nokia doing a better job in porting its software stack and services to N900 than having MeeGo from day 1 (cos at day 4 I sure want MeeGo)

ps. Qt will kick ass ;)]]>Mar 16th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Right. Aside for the geek factor, there is no real big incentive and practical reason for it to happen right away.

As far as the N900 goes, owners would see more value with Nokia focusing on apps and on polishing the software that the device supports now.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Yes Qt will kick ass! And don't worry Nokia has stated that at day one release full support for Maemo apps and Intel Moblin apps will be included. Though the developers may have to recompile them first (a short process). This will include Ovi maps, which I've recently heard will be teaming up with Google maps to bring us all some joy. :)]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more.]]>Mar 16th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
just stating my personal opinion, but I much rather use the true browser experience on the n900 then the apps that are needed as replacement for the other browsers.

i'm sure others would agree as well. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
The reason an app doesn't exist is because no one has written it. Not that an app won't be eventually written, but I could not possibly care less. Facebook and twitter are gay. Besides the internet browser runs the full site versions anyway. Get a droid with motoblur or one of the new "cool" windows phone 7 devices. Its all about the social networking GARBAGE. Some people use their smart-phones for actual work... Not to update everyone "I just reached level 2 in some game!!!! OMG look at me!!!" ]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
So this doesn't exist?

http://maemo.nokia.com/maemo-select/applications/facebook-for-nokia/]]>Mar 16th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/no, not really. if you want to do anything w/ that widget (i.e. reply, update status, etc) it just links you to the regular facebook.com]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/which is not a good thing at all--if nobody is writing apps for even the most popular services (twitter, facebook, for example) we have virtually no hope for a google maps app, or any app of any meaning
i've had an n900 since day 1, is it good for some things? yes. emailing is pretty easy, watching divx files is great, the google reader (grr) app is very cool, but there are other things it falls very short on, such as the soc net stuff and simple apps that are on android, blackberry, and iphone (like the NBA gametime app)]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
A few apps here and there don't make or break a device. However, I think you will see more apps for Meego than you did for Maemo. Maemos biggest issue was there was only one device?? WTF Nokia, one and only in GSM flavor at that? Well luckily Meego will be available to other vendors and not just used by Nokia. What if HTC or Motorola create a device? Then you will see mainstream apps. It is important for developers to feel people will see and use their app if they are going to pit the effort forth to create them.

Biggest thing to keep in mind is Meego == 2nd Gen Maemo. With Qt at version 4.6 we will begin to see some good stuff. Also rumors of a snapdragon powered device to be released by Nokia are afloat. I'm more than excited if it turns out to be a Meego device. My touch pro 2 is about as powerful as the N900 and it is beginning to feel dated. I wouldn't mind a hardware update. And remember Apps will come, have patience!]]>Mar 17th 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/

Yeah where is the CDMA version? Nokia needs to create some hardware compatible with sprint or verizon. GSM is old-school.]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 16th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
lol if you are moving from the N900 to an iphone prepare to be vastly underwhelmed! And good riddance!]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Are you sure you're not already an Iphone user anyway?
People who 'claim' to own an N900 or couldn't be bothered waiting and just got an Iphone or want one becase of a 'bug' instead strike me as Iphone users who don' t own an N900 and whom have a bitterness towards Nokia.]]>Mar 16th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/iPhonie does not bring half of what N900 does. Unless what you want is somewhat dumbed down versions of webpages rendered as "apps"]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/Mar 18th 2010 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
I'm 99% sure that both phones can physical run the respective OS upgrades, it's just up to Microsoft/HTC and Nokia to each get their shit together and do it.]]>Mar 16th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
Its probably more Microsoft than HTC as for what can be upgraded. The HD2 doesn't fit a mandatory requirement, the three buttons (more specifically, the ,windows,bing, and back button). However, I am willing to bet that the HD2 will receive a ROM created by XDA, or someone else. As for the N900... its GUARANTEED people; It will happen!

And for all the people that are griping about Nokia supporting it... Its obvious why they aren't officially supporting it; its not an easy thing to do. If an average-non-technical user wants to get an N900 and flash to the new Meego distribution on it, they are going to need to learn a great deal about how to do that. Nokia doesn't want everyone and their moms calling them saying "Walk me through this process". So if the developer release isn't enough (not to mention the numerous walk-throughs that will be available), then maybe flashing to Meego is not for you; wait till the Meego device comes out. Just don't whine because its too technical for you. The rest of us are going to be happy with even getting the developer release and too many people are griping!]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/nokia-meego-door-is-not-closed-on-n900/
That leaves pretty much only iPhone, and Nexus One as devices with any viable future in them. webOS devices are up in the air as first-gen hardware can use a refresh.]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:16PM