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You don`t have to wait.....I have an N1000 the moment we speak!

N900 @ 1000Mhz back to the future....ehehe]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
I surf, call, text, couple of songs, etc.

Using ultra low voltage kernel from titan, it double my batt time from original kernel]]>Apr 13th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 14th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Time to explode ... depends!

Will an Application (eg N64 emulator) built for MeeGo on x86 run natively on a high-powered smartphone/tablet (ARM Cortex A9) without the need for recompiling?

If YES, MeeGo will beat Apple to a pulp as it spreads like cancer.

If NO, how much recompiling?

If LITTLE, MeeGo might still become widespread in a short time
If ALOT, MeeGo's success will be more limited and the project may even fail disastrously.

MeeGO devs people answer this dillema and how it affects end-users]]>Apr 13th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Look at it's partners. It will have EA mobile producing games for it as well as others. Look at all the people joining the bandwagon. It's better than going it alone.]]>Apr 13th 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Qt is the framework. So building Apps on Qt will work on both platforms without the need for recompiling?

I mean java accomplishes this same "cross-compatibility" feat but it doesn't run native so you have deteriorated performance.

It's great that many supporters coff coff EA is jumping in the bandwagon!]]>Apr 14th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 14th 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
MEEGO = Free as a bird

This contrasts Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 which will be a locked-up walled-garden where Ballmer must approve all your apps first.]]>Apr 15th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Thought it's a good to remember that meeGo got by far world largets manufacturer behind them that can still keep one smartphone alone in 40% market share. Plus they got Intel behind them.

N900 being bulky, not advertised at all, not much of features and unknown OS is selling like hotcakes. Just to give example of Nokia's brand power in Europe and Asia. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
"...throughout much of Europe..." are you crazy? North America, maybe, but the 95% of the world that doesn't speak English as their primary language, it's Android that faces the uphill battle.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Android will do no such thing. Not even close. Not that its a bad os, but, it wont. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
You are forgetting the world's biggest and most imporant market, China. Don't also forget India, with a billion people for each country you can hardly ignore that fact. MeeGo has an uphill battle, in the US maybe.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
I don't know why you got ranked down so highly as you did make a legitimate point albeit in a fanboyish way.

Aaaannywaaay...I was going to say calm down everybody because as I've said numerous times before now the Smartphone war is only in it's infancy. We are only starting to see the potential long term front runners that will carry the torch into the future with many smaller platforms going the way of the Dodo. Right now, speculatively speaking, it would seem that iPhone OS and Android are in a great position. MS can seriously be resurgent and catch up to Android which isn't far fetched at all because come on, this is MS we're talking about. Heck, it wouldn't be far fetched to see them fighting for the top spot within 5 years IF they don't stumble along the way but it will certainly take a lot of right moves on their part.

Really though, it's too early to predict anything. It's great that Meego exists because we all know competition spurs great innovation but there really are too many players on the field and some have got to get off...SOON.]]>Apr 13th 2010 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://cdn1.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/meego_handheld_ui_2.jpg
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Looks nice, imo!]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Really, and I thought the G in GUI related to something Graphical. Which means it needs to be usable visually, and pleasing. I would like to see more effort for Linux bases OS's around GUI. Its the one thing OSX does right. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Be open and not ruled by Apple's iron fist? I'd rather put my efforts and support behind an OS that might need a bit more graphical work but is open, than one that has the GUI down pat but you can't do shit with.

Enjoy re-jailbreaking your phone for the 5th time.]]>Apr 13th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Reread what he said, I'm pretty sure he agrees with you.]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
iPhone - Easiest to use. Most number of apps.
Android - Full of features. Good number of apps. Lots of variety.
Microsoft - Edgy, quirky and fun to use.
Blackberry - Owns business. Enough said.
Palm - Owns multitasking. Best interface.

What does Meego provide that the others haven't already done and are already 1-2 years ahead in offering ?
]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Well maemo already got the best multitasking there is, best browser and we are not even getting to the final product, MeeGo that will have it's phones in the end of this year. Like WM7. Qt 4.6 graphics look amazing.

Plus they got by far world biggest phone manufacturer behind it.]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Again it's not that it is bad it's just that it already feels dated compared to what the others are up to.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Well, a lot of what you said is your own personal taste, from a consumer point of view.

But this news is about the architecture and the framework, which is of interest for developers.

I don't see what so "dated" about it. And considering that we have practically seen nothing that ressembles an end-product with MeeGo, claiming that it "doesn't offer anything to me" is baseless.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
are you kidding me? maemo has the best multitasking ever. way better than cards! you see a live thumnail of every window, all on the screen at once! i dont have to flick 8 cards to the left to see what is on one window, then flick back over to see another.

i actually like the multitasking feature better than anything else about the n900. i really hope meego doesnt change the way multitasking works. i leave it on that screen more than any other screen. i usually have my speedometer, maps, clock, conversations, media player, and phone apps all running at the same time on the dashboard ("multitasking view"). i dont know any other phone that can do that.

and as far as apps, maemo/meego dont really need all those thousands of them because the devices have the best browsers that can access the real websites directly. while everyone needs to download their crappy pandora apps on their iphones and droids, i can go straight to pandora.com and the real website loads right up and works great for me. i have yet to have a single friend who can pull up pandora.com on their phone like i can. even tv.com/shows works for me! full cooliris support and everything!

why am i talking about websites when discussing apps? because it seems to me that a large number of iphone and android apps are either just dumbed down versions of whats available on web pages or even actually web pages formatted for the phones that are made to looks like apps.

and dont forget the fact that you can just repackage many linux apps to run them on maemo. so before the phone was even out, it was theoretically compatible with thousands of desktop apps.

so you are obviously either biased, closed minded, or have never used maemo/meego and are somehow basing an opinion on it without touching it.

"Microsoft - Edgy, quirky and fun to use." GIVE ME A FREAKIN BREAK!

I would say this would be more accurate:

iPhone OSX: Easiest to use. Most number of apps. Low software flexibility. No multitasking at the moment. Great browser.
Android OS: Easy to use. Good number of apps. Good hardware variety. Good flexibility. Ok multitasking. Good browser.
Microsoft 6.x: Dated, but most functional. Close GUI to Win PC. Excellent app support. Ok multitasking. OK browser.
*Microsoft WP7: Very Basic, Limited, Fresh/Clean look, Quickest access to most used phone features.
*Microsoft Kin: Very Basic, Most Limited, Zune/Blur look, Quickest access to media and networking. No app support.
Blackberry OS: Best preloaded email offering. Fair app support.
Palm WebOS: Best interface. Fun to use. Some learning curve but easy over time. Fair app support. Good multitasking.
Nokia Symbian: Ok interface, Dated, Excellent app support, Best hardware variety, Great flexibility.
Nokia Meego: Ok interface, Newest, Low app availability, Most flexibility, Best Multitasking, Best Browser support.

I dont know about you, taligent, but I can say that I have actually used every OS i listed that is currently out. (obviously i havent used the two with asterisks since they arent out yet). yes there is some mixture of fact and opinion in my list based on my usage, but i can probably get more support behind my descriptions of each OS than you could. and how can you make an OS list and not even mention symbian, which is the most used mobile os in the world???]]>Apr 13th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/There is a new Nokia Meego device due this year, let's see if it gets them some mindshare in the US. They need to work more closely with the carriers. Give people a choice between unlocked devices and contracts.

Speaking of Symbian, they might prefer to focus on that outside the US, and probably get some low cost devices in the US. As a platform, I think it is great. It has been working pretty well on even the low CPU devices. They are fixing the touch interaction and the eye-candy with Symbian^3 and Symbian^4. The changes might not be revolutionary but they never needed them. The UI will be at par with the other OS's and if they throw some nice processors under the hood, they might have a winner (at least in Europe and Asia).

The screenshots have nothing extraordinary, but look kinda cool. with rumors of Nokia coming back to the tablet market, it seems to be an obvious choice for them to use Meego, with Intel's silicon. Things are getting interesting.]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
How is RIM's preloaded e-mail offering any better than what comes with, for example, Nokia E72 or probably with this new E5?]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
BB is not better actually, like the new Nokia Messaging better. But, you have to say something nice about BB, they sell some phones. :)]]>Apr 14th 2010 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
So, we mean, no. idiot. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Maemo on N900 just screams of unleashed potential. Hopefully MeeGo will release it and not kill it.

]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/
Maemo came with MicroB, it's Mozilla based with Flash but it's not Fennec.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/Apr 13th 2010 1:22PM