http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/ Engadget Comments for Aava Mobile reveals Virta 2 smartphone development kit, we go hands-on 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/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/1. Nokia said that N8 is the last N-series device to run S^3. This means that they could go for meego OR S^4. No one can tell.
2. They might just create a whole new series of devices that run the MeeGo instead of bringing it to N-series.
And I think 2. is a great idea. Hope Nokia would do that.]]>Jul 12th 2010 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Yes, it is very much possible to have a new series. Remember the leaked Nokia house, which had S-series. Also recently read somewhere, i think in BoFA analyst research report on Nokia(NOK) published on July 7(I think), where they mentioned S-series for Meego. But again, nothing is confirmed until Nokia reveals that in Nokia world. ]]>Jul 13th 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
What a great hand on...]]>Jul 13th 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
Maybe if it had run the droid they were looking for.. ]]>Jul 13th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
Didn't they say N8 will be the last N-series to use Symbian?
(meaning there won't be any future N-series or they'll run different OS like MeeGo)
I don't recall them saying S^3, but Symbian all-together ... meaning S^4 will hit another series but not the N-series.

Anyone here that can clear this confusion?]]>Jul 13th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
Guess so]]>Jul 13th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
Tells you what Engadget has become doesn't it?

Mob mentality at its greatest....]]>Jul 12th 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/It has quite a lot of potential and with proper hardware and software finish, Nokia and Intel can "reinvent" the SMARTPHONE.]]>Jul 12th 2010 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
...here you are defending Apple in a post which has nothing to do with them.

Tells us all we need to know about you.

Blind ignorance at it's finest. ]]>Jul 12th 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
lol! yea....meego>Android, iOS,

good luck with that]]>Jul 13th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
The interface I saw for the tablet as well as the hardware seems better suited for this application. Actually, Meego is the only OS that makes me wants a tablet...

Still looking forward to Meego as a whole.]]>Jul 12th 2010 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
It is purely a development device built like a tank, with top of the line material and components. Anything that is not mass produced is going to cost a lot of money, given the R&D that goes into its production. ]]>Jul 12th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/The N900 will sort of work, except that multitouch is a hardware requirement and the OS is too big for the internal memory.

I suppose non-corporate developers who want to work on this will need more parts for their beagleboards.]]>Jul 13th 2010 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 12th 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/
Really this has nothing to do with the software. It's purely hardware related costs.

Standard Mobile phone = production run of 10's of thousands if not 100's to millions.

Dev Device = run's in ~ 100's to thousands. Consumer devices have the luxury of spreading R&D over orders of magnitude more devices.

That and as a company you can always crank up the cost of a product if it's meant to make the client money. Dev devices often get lots of extra mark up.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/But then it might be for a better as pretty much non of these companies see the mass production phase.

I would love to see Nokias Harmattan-Meego running on Z600/moorestown, but i'm still a bit out of how they will get +24h of battery life for it.]]>Jul 13th 2010 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Jul 13th 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/aava-mobile-reveals-virta-2-smartphone-development-kit-we-go-ha/Its a linux based OS, so x86 makes a lotof applications easier to port.
Intel also want to compete in the market, competition is allways good.
And we dont really know aout efficiency, perhaps the first generation will use more power, but give better performance. And the second only slightly more power and deliver really well on performance.
Why diss something that has not even reached the customers in its first generation.]]>Jul 13th 2010 9:16PM